The Big Book of Female Detectives

THE DAY I MET V. I. WARSHAWSKI The air was humid, the cobblestones glistening during my lunch break as a psychotherapist. I stumbled upon a little bookstore I’d not seen before on the South Side of Pittsburgh, where my spouse and I had just moved for his job with Capitol Records. SOLACE Libraries and b......more

Well now, that was a meal. Penzler does nothing halfway, and this meaty collection of 74 stories took me awhile to move through. I read most, but not all, and I’ll get to that in a minute. First, though, thanks go to Net Galley and Doubleday for the review copy. This book is for sale now. The collec......more

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf Doubleday, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard for a digital copy of this anthology. This is an absolutely must-have collection for any reader who wants someone else to do all the hard research work for them. Otto Penzler has collected 74 short stories featuring a woman as the......more

Read the print version, just because I like big books "in person." This is a first class collection of short stories (mostly) ranging from Victorian times to the present. I liked all the time periods pretty well except, to my surprise, the pulp era stories. However, that is clearly a matter of person......more