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When a local television news anchor hires Waco, Texas private eye Morris Ronald Boyette to follow her husband, he thinks he's taking on a run-of-the-mill cheating-spouse case. Instead, he gets a harsh lesson in how aging unfairly impacts working women.
A work of short crime from our Fingerprints line.
A work of short crime from our Fingerprints line.
9 pages, Nook
First published March 9, 2011
About the author
Michael Bracken
245 books34 followersAlthough he is the author of several books—including the private eye novel All White Girls—Michael Bracken is better known as the author of more than 1,300 short stories published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Espionage, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, The Best American Mystery Stories and many other publications.
Bracken is editor of six crime fiction anthologies, including The Eyes of Texas and the three-volume Fedora series, and is co-editor (with Trey R. Barker) of the serial novella anthology series Guns + Tacos.
Bracken served one term as vice president of the Private Eye Writers of America and three terms as vice president of the Mystery Writers of America’s Southwest chapter.
Bracken is editor of six crime fiction anthologies, including The Eyes of Texas and the three-volume Fedora series, and is co-editor (with Trey R. Barker) of the serial novella anthology series Guns + Tacos.
Bracken served one term as vice president of the Private Eye Writers of America and three terms as vice president of the Mystery Writers of America’s Southwest chapter.
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June 3, 2012
Diane Chalmers likes to keep the temperature in her house cold. Maybe that is because she spends so much time in front of the powerful television lights on the 6 and 10pm newscasts. Waco, Texas is a step up or down market wise in a television anchor career. For Diane Chalmers both her career and her marriage seemed headed down and Private Investigator Morris Ronald Boyette does not have any real answers for her.
She isn’t alone as he won’t have any easy answers for his next client who has a very familiar problem. Some things just can’t be fixed no matter what he does.
Available from Untreed Reads Publishing this short story is a powerful read with a certain sad inevitability to it. The sexism evidenced in the television industry where male anchors are allowed to grow old on air while female anchors are not allowed the same luxury in most cases is a strong theme throughout the work. So too is the fact that pain confirmed though proof often can’t easily be fixed regardless of status or position. Rich in details, the approximately three thousand word story (14 pages print) isn’t exactly a fun light read considering everything, but it is a good one.
Material supplied quite some time ago by the author in exchange for my objective review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2012
More reviews at…. http://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/
She isn’t alone as he won’t have any easy answers for his next client who has a very familiar problem. Some things just can’t be fixed no matter what he does.
Available from Untreed Reads Publishing this short story is a powerful read with a certain sad inevitability to it. The sexism evidenced in the television industry where male anchors are allowed to grow old on air while female anchors are not allowed the same luxury in most cases is a strong theme throughout the work. So too is the fact that pain confirmed though proof often can’t easily be fixed regardless of status or position. Rich in details, the approximately three thousand word story (14 pages print) isn’t exactly a fun light read considering everything, but it is a good one.
Material supplied quite some time ago by the author in exchange for my objective review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2012
More reviews at…. http://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/
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