Review: Very nice collection of short stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2011
Note: This review was originally published at Red Adept Reviews on June 24, 2011.Overall:  4 starsFive Uneasy Pieces is a collection of five short stories, three of which were previously published. The author wrote that the title is a play on the film "Five Easy Pieces."I enjoyed the stories, but some stories - especially the promised twists - worked better than others. The author had a straightforward style of writing that was in tune with the stories.Here are the stories and my individual ratings and comments:"Deadly Detour" (2.5): This was my least favorite story. It was well written, but the twist at the end seemed a bit lame and too coincidental to me."The Right to Remain Silent" (3.0): When the DA fired a prosecutor in this town, he didn't kid around."A Woman Who Thinks" (5.0): Not becoming personally involved with patients is a sacred axiom in medicine. When a psychiatrist got caught up in Lila's troubles, his past came back to haunt him with a vengeance."The People Next Door" (5.0): This was a humorous story with a nice twist at the end. It would have made a dandy Twilight Zone episode."Sympathy for the Devil" (4.0)": Lainie was fairly certain that her husband Ed was cheating on her. Did her friend Roz have ulterior motives when she referred Lainie to a private investigator?Five Uneasy Pieces was a short book with 1,705 Kindle locations, including an excerpt from Debbi Mack's novel Least Wanted.