Lucille is hired by a family in Westchester to care for their two children. Almost immediately you sense this will not turn out well and the tension never lets up. She is not ill-intentioned but she is crazy. She longs to do something heroic for this family. What will it be. And a strange life the family has-with the children rarely leaving their nursery. A good reminder to always check out references.
I have read most of the stories in this anthology and have not been disappointed.
Putting together this anthology was one of Sarah Weinman's first endeavors. Now the mystery and crime editor of the New York Times Book Review, Sarah has written SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS, EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN and has a new book WITHOUT CONSENT debuting in the fall. All non-fiction, her books look at true crime.
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As always, thank you for including my effort.
I read this when I read all of Highsmith's short story collections. I remember this one.
Currently reading a book George reviewed, Edward Marston's very entertaining INSPECTOR COLEBROOK'S CASEBOOK, stories of The Railway Detective, set in 1950s England.
that sounded good when he reviewed it.
I have read several stories in this book but I don't think I have read this one. It does not sound like a story I would enjoy, but am sure I will read it someday.
I had forgotten that this was the first book that Sara Weinman published. I have not read any of her nonfiction.
Not directly relevant to SSW, but interesting in this writer's finding their own path, their first novel, FRESHWATER, published in the first year of their MFA program, which was given to understand was Bad Form: https://locusmag.com/2025/06/akwaeke-emezi-claiming-the-center/
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