pickIn his five short stories and one play Lehane shows his talent for crime fiction, not the usual whodunnits. There are tales of revenge, killers, sociopaths. The testosterone driven writing is not for me so it‘s only a low pick. I didn‘t bail because listening to Stanley Tucci narrate the stories made the depiction of tough manly men and lascivious women bearable.
pickUnsurprisingly, Lehane‘s short stories are every bit as good as his novels. Lehane has a talent for writing complex, flawed characters who find their way to doing bad, really bad, and, every once in a while [almost] good things. All the stories, and the play, were great, not a bad one among them. ‘Running out of Dog‘ and ‘Until Gwen‘ were favorites.
I‘ve decided to try a COVID-19 reading challenge - anybody want to join?
C - a comfort read/reread
O - on TBR more than a year (bonus points if it‘s been there since the 1900‘s)
V - visual aid - contains maps or illustrations
I - informative - nonfiction
D - daring - heroes, swashbucklers, etc
19 - number in the title (bonus of it‘s 19)
Tag me and use #COVID19challenge
(above books are not my challenge stack, just an acrostic)
Coronado: Stories | 
