Lunch Reads Volume 3

Download or read book Lunch Reads Volume 3 written by Ellen B. Holzman and published by Istoria Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short short and a long short, two great mystery stories by writers at the top of their craft! In this third volume of Istoria Bookss LUNCH READS series, readers will encounter a grumpy senior citizen doing her grocery shopping and a small town abuzz about the murder of their local newspapers editor. SHOPLIFTING by Edmund X. DeJesus: A cantankerous woman does her regular grocery shopping, providing a mental commentary as she cruises the aisles. But all is not as it seems in this densely packed tale of skewed perspective. CALL OF THE RILED by Ellen B. Holzman: A newspaper editor is murdered, and the whole town is talking about whodunit in letters to the editor of The Mountain Telegraph, a small town newspaper whose letter writers will seem familiar to anyone whos ever regularly read similar publications. The author, a former newspaper publisher, brilliantly captures each distinct personality as she slowly reveals the criminal in this epistolary story.