Such a Good Girl and Other Crime Stories

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If you choose to read this introduction before embarking on your journey into the actual stories in Such a Good Girl and Other Crime Stories, thanks. Let me assure you, I won’t give away any secrets about the stories. You’re safe with me. In that regard, anyway.

We’ll start off with a quote.

“Good books are always moral, contrasting how we are with how we should be. And the good writer knows how to do this without letting on.” That’s from Wake Up Little Susie, by Ed Gorman, the author of this collection.

Though Ed doesn’t preach or “let on” that he is contrasting how we are with how we should be, it’s there in every short story and novel he writes.

He seems to have, in the words of Robert Frost, “A lover’s quarrel with humanity.”

In story after story, we see Ed in the background shaking his head, muttering an occasional wisecrack, sometimes seething with rage, and maybe sometimes weeping over the way his characters, such real people, hurt each other.

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