Review: A Tasty Slice of Crime Writing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
Mike Monson does not write about criminal masterminds or super villains.  The characters that populate his fiction are petty thieves, lowlifes, thugs.  Guys and girls you probably wouldn't want to spend much time with, but they sure make for entertaining reading.  In this excellent collection, plans go wrong and bad thing happen.  Even when a happy ending is reached, it's usually an accident.  I had read some of these stories before and I was impressed how well they held up to a second pass - a credit to the writing.  Monson's prose gets right to the point.  So I highly recommend picking up this collection and getting to know this group of losers, loveable and not.  It's well worth the price.