Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, November-December 2018

I'll just give this an OK. Mild entertainment from a simple mix of a dozen mostly mystery stories. Some nice story ideas. A couple even let me think, that's a bit Hitchcock. My two favorites were "Bite The Dragon" by Martin Limón and then the cover story "Leah" by Julie Tollefson, which I think of as a mild horror tale. Limón has written quite a few novels that look interesting so I may check other books by him in the future. My local library has two of them. That's the positive side of reading short story collections, to get a sample of an author. On a tough subject, "Fear of the Secular" by Mitch Alderman was also done well.

The quality of the writing in some stories could have used an editor's hand and keeps me in part from rating show more this higher. show less