Review: A nice idea but ....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2013
This was a collection of 10 short stories; which all have the line ‘The diamond necklace dangled from the dead woman’s hand’ somewhere in each.The proceeds from the sale of the anthology were for a literacy charity which is always a good cause although I found the collection to be very mixed in terms of ability.  There were some bizarre tales, some downright pointless tales and the occasional better one. Some of the stories started well but ran out of steam towards the end although I could see a couple of them being the opening chapter for something longer. My favourite of the 10 was ‘A girl’s best friend’ by Diana Holdsworth which concludes with you knowing that a girl’s best friend is a diamond necklace.Overall, there wasn’t very much to my taste, but it was for a good cause.*I received a complimentary copy of this book in order to review it.