THE PROSECUTION RESTS

Author: 22 individuals - Edited by Linda Fairstein

Genre: Short Story Collection

Published: The Prosecution Rests, 2009

Personal Rating: 4/5 (very good)

Yearly Count: 121

I decided to read this collection in-between other books, so it has taken almost 3 months to get through. However, I looked forward to getting back to it every time. I was really surprised at the diversity of stories and for the most part I enjoyed them. There was one that I did not finish and one that received an "excellent" rating, but like all my ratings, they are purely subjective and could very well have had different outcomes if I read them at different times. The overall rating average came to 3.5/5 (good), but as a whole, I enjoyed them more than that, hence, my 4/5 (very good) final rating.

The following are the individual titles and links to my thoughts:

1. The Secret Session (Hoch)

2. Designer Justice (Cohen)

3. Follow Up (Dereske)

4. By Hook or By Crook (Drees)

5. The Letter (Dunbaugh)

6. Spectral Evidence (Gallison)

7. Knife Fight (Goldman)

8. Death, Cheated (Grippando)

9. My Brother's Keeper (Hale)

10. The Flashlight Game (Hansen-Young)

11. Mom is My Co-Counsel (Levine)

12. Quality of Mercy (Lundin)

13. The Mother (Martinez)

14. Red Dog (Page)

15. A Clerk's Life (Parker)

16. Time Will Tell (Phelan)

17. The Evil We Do (Putre)

18. Night Court (Rozan)

19. Hard Blows (Swingle)

20. Custom Sets (Wallace)

21. Bang (Zeman)

22. Going Under (Fairstein)

Thank you Miriam, from Hachette Book Group, for sending me a copy of the book.