Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 127, No. 6. Whole No. 778, June 2006

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Joyce Carol Oates’s latest book is one readers of dark suspense won’t want to miss. The Female of the Species (Harcourt, 1/06) includes some EQMM stories, but most of the tales are from other sources. Ms. Oates has been writing suspense novels as Rosamond Smith and, more recently, as Laura Kelly, for years, but as far as we know, this is her first mystery story collection.

Midday, early spring, sunshine in steel bars flashing on the river, she drove to meet him where he’d summoned her. Wind swept in roiling gusts from the Canadian shore.

Suburban life: appointments! Mornings, afternoons. And then the children’s appointments. Dentist, orthodontist. Gynecologist, hair salon, yoga. Architect, community relations forum, library fundraiser for which she’s a committee co-chair, flattered to be invited, yet uneasy. Suburban life: Each calendar day is a securely barred window, you shove up the window and grasp the bars, grip the bars tight, these are bars that confine but also protect, what pleasure in shaking them!

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