Murder by Magic: Twenty Tales of Crime and the Supernatural

This is one of the few anthologies that I can say was worth the price of admission. There are 20 short stories and nearly everyone of them held up for me. Some excellent authors contributed to this; Mercedes Lackey, Susan Krinard, Jennifer Roberson, Laura Resnick, Roberts Gellis, Laura Ann Gilman to name a few.

A mixed lot of fantastical murder-by-magic tales ranging from0 spine-chilling to mind-numbing. I hunted it down for entries by Laura Anne Gilman and Mercedes Lackey - both of which turned out to be rather lack-luster. But both Will Graham's "Mixed Marriages can be Murder" and Laura Resnick's "Doppelgangster" took up the slack nicely, and I also enjoyed Esther Friesner's "Au Purr" - the nice thing about an anthology stuffed so full of different pieces; if one doesn't suit there's another just a page-turn away.

Well, of course I enjoyed this one for combining two of my favourite genres.

An outstanding collection, although both LC and Amazon have it listed falsely as "Murder And Magic."