Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories
by Mary Higgins Clark
Format: Ebook
Price: Free via the library via the Overdrive app
Price: Free via the library via the Overdrive app
How I heard about it: My book club decided to read it.
Basic Premise: There were eight stories, all with varying degrees of creepiness...
I am not a murder-mystery-creepy-stories sort of girl, nor, I discovered, am I a short stories sort of girl. The first story, "Death Wears a Beauty Mask" was very good and the longest of all the stories. It didn't feel rushed (although the ending did feel a bit abrupt) and I really was left wondering who did it. It felt sort of like The Cukoo's Calling because the victim was famous and dead and it was the sibling who was pulling back the shards. The other stories went to quickly for me. I had hardly any time to connect with the characters, which made it hard for me to care what happened to them because I am the worst.
I did really enjoy the writing style. I loved the lack of swear words, blood and gore, and sexual violence. I loved that the stories took place before computers and cell phones took over the world. It was very refreshing!
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