With this
collection of thirty additional tales—short and
long, lighthearted and gritty—master short story
author John M. Floyd invites us once more to strap
ourselves into a ride that entertains as well as
enlightens. And, as his readers have come to expect,
almost every story features two ingredients that
Floyd admits he loves: nonstop suspense and a
Hitchcock-like surprise ending.
But the best thing about these stories is their
variety. They dish up something to satisfy devotees
of every genre—mystery, adventure, humor, western,
fantasy, romance, even science fiction. The settings
take us from Alaska to England to Hawaii to the
American West, and the characters include bank
robbers, housemaids, time-travelers, stuntmen,
police snipers, sorcerers, convenience-store clerks,
gunfighters, young lovers, mad scientists, serial
killers, bungling angels, and kindly monsters. There
is even a continuation of the mystery “series”
introduced in Rainbow’s End—eight more stories
featuring bossy schoolteacher Angela Potts and her
long-suffering former student Sheriff Chunky Jones.
So kick off your shoes, settle back into that easy
chair, and prepare to be transported into a world of
suspense and deception. These bite-sized stories are
sure to thrill you and delight you—and keep you up
long past midnight . . .