Review: Great stories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
I first read these stories in the on-line version of Grantville Gazette. I loved them then, and I love them now. Being a dilettante musician and a reader of police procedural mysteries, these stories are just great. The characterization and plot development all proceed at a goodly pace, and there is only a small letdown in the epistolary story of the courtship of Amber Higham by Heinrich Schutz.The only improvement to this collection as far as I am concerned, would be the addition of a discography for those, who like me, are not that familiar with Irish folk music, or for those who are not that familiar with classical music. That would be a great addition to what are fantastic stories of the effect of 20th century music on the 17th century. It also shows the problems involved in creating a modern police force where none has even been heard of before. The mysteries are also mysterious.