Official website of author Persia Walker. Information on books and blog.
Official website of author Persia Walker. Information on books and blog.
Taking us from smoggy Los Angeles to the woods of Idaho, from Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century to the post-Civil War frontier, these riveting stories trace the perils and occasional triumphs of lawmen and women who put themselves in harm's way to face down the bad guys.
Some of them even walk the edge of becoming bad guys themselves.
These are hard-hitting, thrilling, and utterly unforgettable stories, from some of the best writers in the mystery world.
Frankie L. Winchester2024-07-12Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | Good Guy cop Stories The short stories in this volume all featured police officers. Almost all of them were presented in a positive light, serving their communities and filling the role of the good guys. The writing, plots, and character development were mostly high quality. Of course I liked some better than others and some not at all. The editor left the two best-known authors to the end, Alafair Burke and Michael Connelly.
Paul Sacia2024-04-01Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | interesting authors. The short stories are more interesting than the usual collections. Glad the purchase worked out. I might sample some other works by these writers.Todd2024-02-06Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | It's O.K Michael Connelly's name attracted me to this book. I would guess many of you are interested due to his association, as well. The stories range from o.k. to pretty good, at least there were no "clunkers". Connelly's story was the best of the bunch, but, sadly, I had read it before in one of his novellas. I got the feeling Connelly told his fellow writers..........."Each of you write a short story, I will gather them up, put my name on the book and give you guys a boost"...........So, not bad, but I would skip it if I were you.Robert S Shillington2022-09-09Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | Not as good as I thought it would I think that about 30% of the stories are good, 35% are just so so and 35% are not worth reading in my opinion.Randy S.2022-04-06Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | Interesting. It's OK.Sherry Wessman of Livonia Mi.2021-12-17Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | Interesting! Clever! Michael Connelly has been one of my fav authors, forever. I found most of the stories, intriguing. I would have been quite content to read on, for most of them. Worth the read!Pamela2021-06-21Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | It's unusual to like ALL the stories in a collection! I am not finished with the book, but so far Michael Connelly picked all winners!Kathy K2021-05-22Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | Not for the soft of heart. Stories are informative, but be prepared for heartbreaking situatuons.MSreviews2021-02-21Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | Not what I thought it was. I didn’t realize the book was fiction until I had read the entire book. I’m a longtime Michael Connelly fan, and I bought this book because I thought this was the one book of his that I haven't read. I'd been waiting for it to decrease in price, and when I saw this book for $1.99, I bought it. Turns out there were two books that I haven't read, the other one is "Crime Beat," which is what I thought this was. I obviously didn’t read the description well, because I thought until I read the end of the book that this was a book of true stories. Some of the “true” stories puzzled me because I didn’t understand why someone would reveal details of their police misconduct in a book, like the details in the “Winning” story seemed like they could lead to the arrest of the Officer involved. However, the book is fiction as is obvious in the title that I neglected to read, “Mystery Writer’s of America Presents...”, and as a collection of short fiction stories, some were pretty good and others were blah. The first few didn’t seem as good, but that may have been because of my false expectations. I expected to read stories of the type that Officers would regale their fellow Officers with. For several stories, especially the first few, I wondered why an Officer would tell that story out of others of more interest that they had experienced. For many of Connolly’s books, I read them straight through. This one, I did not. And, I didn’t realize until I was done that the stories were not even written by Connolly. I feel a bit cheated, but the book was worth the price I paid, even if the stories weren’t by Connolly. Someday I'll read Crime Beat, but not now, it's too pricey for a bunch of short stories. Until then, if I feel the need to read Connelly, I'll reread one of his novels.S. Mahon2020-08-26Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase | Great read introduces authors you may not know All the stories are good, different, and consistently interesting most by authors you may not have read before but will want to read more of in the futureLoad more