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The Deadly Hours
The Deadly Hours
Author: Susanna Kearsley, C. S. Harris, Anna Lee Huber, Christine Trent
A stellar line-up of historical mystery novelists weaves the tale of a priceless and cursed gold watch as it passes through time wreaking havoc from one owner to another. As the hours and years pass, the characters are irrevocably linked by fate, each playing a key role in breaking the curse and destroying the watch once and for all. — From 1733 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781492664444
ISBN-10: 1492664448
Publication Date: 9/1/2020
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 10 ratings
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 18
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cathyskye avatar reviewed The Deadly Hours on + 2306 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Four interconnected stories trace the journey of a cursed and priceless watch from 1733 to 1944. From Italy to Scotland to England, the watch touches each of its owners with misfortune.

Readers first see the watch, called La Sirène by its French pirate owner, in Susanna Kearsley's "Weapon of Choice," my pick of the stories. The travels continue in 1831's Edinburgh in Anna Lee Huber's "In a Fevered Hour" then Christine Trent's "A Pocketful of Death" finds readers in the streets of London during a series of chilling murders. The anthology ends with C.S. Harris's "Siren's Call" in 1944.

The owners were told what needed to be done in order to break the curse, but you know what happens when someone possesses something, rare, priceless, and beautiful. From the description of the timepiece, I would have had a difficult time parting with it myself.

I enjoyed seeing how these four authors took an idea and ran with it. The only thing I didn't particularly care for was the acknowledgments at the end of each story. They were repetitive and really intruded on the flow of the story. It would have been much better if they'd all been relegated to the end of the book.

(Review copy courtesy of the publisher and Net Galley)
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