A review by mattstebbins
A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories by Patricia Abbott, Ed Gorman, Brendan DuBois, Jim Fusilli, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, Sandra Scoppettone, Hilary Davidson, Lawrence Block, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Christine Matthews, Jeremiah Healy, Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Robert S. Levinson, Jeffery Deaver, Edward D. Hoch, Nancy Pickard, Kerry Ashwin, Loren D. Estleman, Tom Piccirilli, Jon L. Breen, Doug Allyn, Joyce Carol Oates, Bryon Quertermous, Sarah Weinman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Clark Howard, Dick Lochte

2.0

Just to clarify: I do not read many crime dramas and/or mysteries. Still, this looked interesting, and the library was about to close -- so I picked it up. What I found was, at least to me (a self-professed critic of the genre) was very much hit-or-miss. Some of the stories really shine -- Doug Allyn's Dead as a Dog, Jeffrey Deaver's Making Amends, and Sandra Scoppettone's Everybody Loves Somebody are all spectacular -- but I wouldn't wade through the collection again.