Review: Clever Short Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2013
I was interested in this story not so much because of the product description, but because the reviews were so heavily mixed! And since it's currently in a free promotional period, I figured there'd be no harm done trying it.This was a very credible short story and quite a well-written one. I  thought the length was perfect; any longer and there would have had to have been a heck of a lot of padding. The protagonist planned out the murder very carefully and allowed for every eventuality but one, and that one thing was the reason for the twist at the end. Some reviewers didn't find it to be much of a twist, but I thought it was most definitely a twist and a good one at that, essentially caused by one piece of very, very bad luck that the killer could not have planned for. I personally don't think this is a 5-star story, but I surely do find it a solid 4-star tale and I have no hesitation in recommending it for anyone who's interested in a short mystery story.