The Victims' Club

After reading Buried in the Hush Collection, I thought I might read a little more by this author who was previously unfamiliar to me. I found this clever standalone short story on Kindle Unlimited. Detective Jon Avery and three fellow detectives are temporarily taking on the workload of a fifth fellow detective, who is on a short leave. Her workload has been divvied up among the remaining four and Avery ruminates on how that increases his workload – 20% he ponders?

Of course, I stopped right then and there to do the math and by my reckoning if the workload was 100% before and divided between five then her absence should increase his workload from 20% to 25% or by 5% but then 5% of 20 % would be only 1%....so you see where I’m going show more here? This is totally unacceptable!!! I can’t have math problems thrown at me while I’m reading – these are two different subjects!!!!

However, it transpires that Avery is a better detective than mathematician (or I am a better reader than mathematician), and with a great deal of procedural (in just 40 pages) he manages to solve the mystery of who slipped Professor Rose Taylor a Mickey and uploaded a photograph of her boobs to the internet.

There is a great twist at the end, which I did not see coming – even though it smacks you in the face, right at the start of the story! Justice is meted out WITH INTEREST to compensate Professor Taylor for the humiliation she suffered (yay).

P.S. After 40+ years, this story motivated me to search for the answer to a question that has plagued me since primary school - How fast must each of two trains travel in order to arrive together at the same station, if departing from two different distances? show less

A master storyteller.

This is a quality novella well written and completely engaging from first to last page. Clever intelligent storytelling from a Master of the art.
Completely and utterly recommended.

An entertaining quick read with a story that is easy to follow. Would have liked to know what happened next but it is only a short story after all.

I got this free on Prime Reads.

Such a good story but very disappointing ending

I don't want to give much away but for me I had a great time reading this story until I reached the end. So disappointing!

Overall good story and ending. A perfect quick read.