Bernard Shaw once said, "I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter." This quote captures the differing skills and abilities needed to write short stories. They need to be compact, exciting, have fast moving plots and often have dramatic or surprising endings.

To this end, Sandra Brown has pulled together and edited an incredible anthology of top romantic suspense stories from best-selling to newly discovered authors. Before each of the 29 stories, Brown has personally written a tag line that totally captures the treat that is next in store for readers and like ocean waves, the theme of each story, while different rolls nicely into the next.

I found a lot of thought had gone into the editing and assembling of the stories. The stories have diverse themes of violence, betrayal, action, suspense and faith, but all touch on love in its various forms. With top writers like Lee Child, Heather Graham, Roxanne St. Claire, and Vicki Hinze contributing, it would be hard to go wrong; yet, I found the works by authors I hadn't previously discovered, such as Pamela Callow, William Simon and J.T. Ellison, just as page turning and made it too hard for me to pick out a favorite among them.

As the stories differ in intensity and mood, I can't guarantees that you will like them all, but I can say they all fi in the "I can't put this down, page turning " category and LOVE IS MURDER is an exceptional collection of thrilling stories that romantic suspense loving fans will not want to miss!