Friday, Apr 3, 2009

Book Review: The Prosecution Rests

Author:       Mystery Writers of America

Editor:        Linda Fairstein

Publisher:    Little Brown/Hachette

ISBN:         978-0-316-01252-2

Website:      Mystery Writers of America

Type:         Fiction:Short Stories/Legal

Publication Date:   April 14, 2009        

Pages:         432 Hardcover

Purchase:     $16.49 from Amazon.com (HERE)

The Stories

This book is comprised of 22 short stories, all with a “legal twist” on things.  The stories have to do with court cases, murders, mysteries, or legal actions.   

The Review

This is my first “legal/mystery” book.  I had NO idea what to expect when I started it.  I LIKED IT!  What was so good about it?  First off, I really liked the fact that it was a book comprised of short stories.  For an over 400 page book, what was fun about this book is that I’d get through a chapter and I was done with a story… ready to start another with the next chapter.  All the stories were really so much different from one another and yet there was that “legal system” tie that strung them together.

The stories that I enjoyed the most were “Designer Justice,” “By Hook or By Crook,” “Mom is my Co-Counsel,” “Quality of Mercy,” and “Going Under.”  For the most part, I liked all of the stories, however  there were a couple that didn’t really engage me as much as the others.  Linda Farstein did a great job editting the book and including her own story within it.

On Sher’s “Out of Ten Scale:”

I enjoyed this book.  I never, IN A MILLION YEARS, thought that this type of book was my “cup of tea.”  But, apparently, it is!  That’s the neat thing about reading review copies of books, you may just find that you surprise yourself and expand your horizons!  For the genre Fiction:Short Stories/Legal/Mystery, I am going to rate this book an 8.5 OUT OF 10. 

My thanks to Hachette Books for the engaging read!

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