{"id":13687,"date":"2020-12-21T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2024-01-29T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:09:45","slug":"requiem-for-mr-busybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13687","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for Mr. Busybody"},"content":{"rendered":"

Requiem for Mr. Busybody<\/a><\/em> (2020) Josh Lanyon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Requiem<\/a>Michael misses his days as a crime reporter.<\/p>\n

His life now consists mostly of his apartment building and his research.<\/p>\n

But when his elderly neighbor disappears, Michael reaches out to his ex, Detective Leonard Drake with his concerns.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing about Josh Lanyon: She’s really good at writing mysteries, and also<\/em> really good and crafting short stories, which is no small feat.<\/p>\n

In 66 pages, she has given us a suspected murder, a complex narrator with a disability, and a second chance romance. That’s a lot of ground to cover while leaving the reader satisfied, and it’s not something a lot of authors are good at (see: some of the terrible “short stories” and novellas I read this fall).<\/p>\n

To write a good short story, you have to use your words wisely and judiciously, letting each sentence convey as much as possible. And that’s precisely what happens her. <\/p>\n

The story opens with Michael calling his ex because he thinks his neighbor has been murdered by his live-in-lover, and we slowly discover Michael’s past, what split the two of them, and we managed to feel compassion for both Michael and Len for their breakup and everything around it.<\/p>\n

Plus, a murder mystery.<\/p>\n

Excellently done!<\/p>\n

Publisher : JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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