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Criminal Tendencies
Criminal Tendencies: Great Stories from Great Crime Writers | Mark Billingham, Ed Lynne Patrick
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Carla Banks's Twilight Zone like Out of Her Mind, which features a writer and a knife-wielding killer, contrasts nicely with the humorous story that soon follows, Simon Brett's Work Experience, in which burglars plot to rip off a coin dealer's cache stored above a police station. On balance, the 26 selections tend to the scary side, as shown by Ann Cleves's Games for Winter, in which a teacher's decision to try his survival skills in a remote part of Alaska has fateful consequences. In one of the book's best tales, Sophie Hannah's unsettling The Octopus Nest, a babysitter's chance look at a couple's photo album reveals a stalker.
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kaysworld1
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A bit late to the party sorry I've been working so much.
#alterednightmareswap
Thank you @jenniferw88 I ate the chocolates already 😊
@LibrarianRyan tagged you again 👍

Andrew65 Looks really interesting. A lot of my favourite authors. 3y
LibrarianRyan Lovely. Looks like an interesting book. 3y
LibrarianRyan Thanks. I swear Litsy tagging does not work right. Espically when I use the desktop app. Uggg. Thank you ahain 3y
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jenniferw88
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Mehso-so

26 stories in this collection & they fit #teamslaughter's #scarathlon2020 theme, so 15 x 26 = 390pts. Add 1pt for participation and the 34 from earlier takes me to 425pts @Clwojick

Average is 4.32 ⭐

#thinkpink #booked2020 (£1 goes to National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline) @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Book 26 #murder2020 @Tove_Reads

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Simon Brett
Maureen Carter
Mary Andrea Clarke
Ann Cleeves ⬇️

jenniferw88 Adrian Magson, Val McDermid, Chris Nickson, Linda Regan, Roz Southey & Andrew Taylor 4y
Clwojick You‘re crushing it! Way to go! 4y
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Cinfhen Yay!!! Love that your book has a charitable side 💖💖💖 4y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 4y
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jenniferw88
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OK, here's my #tbr for #scarathlon2020 @Clwojick #teamslaughter - there'll be one or two more added on Tuesday but this is basically my #bookspinbingo list for October too! @TheAromaofBooks

Numbers in pencil are my rough idea of what each book will count towards in points. If I read all the short stories in the tagged book, I get 390 points!⬇️

jenniferw88 My aim is obviously to read the initial tagged book, but also this one as I hope to get 50 points for it - it's the prequel to The Good Daughter. ⬇️ 4y
jenniferw88 Also, 26pts!! 😂😂😂 4y
Clwojick Looks great! 4y
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jenniferw88 @Clwojick when I read it can I have the 50 points for the prequel to The Good Daughter? 4y
Clwojick Sure. But if you read the other two, they would only be worth the 15pt. 4y
jenniferw88 @Clwojick ok, thanks for confirming! I've already read The Good Daughter (hence why I'm reading the prequel lol). I might read the other one if it's cheap on kindle! 😂😂😂 4y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Love the challenge stacking!! 4y
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Blueroseis
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Panpan

Wishing to discover a new author that I could follow I purchased this book containing 26 short stories. While I did find some interesting works and some that were exciting there were none that made me seek out more novels written by the relevant author, excluding the Chris Nickson story as he is already one of my favourite authors. Every story ended far to abruptly for my liking and many endings didn't do Justice to the story as a whole.