"Fresh Meat" by Victoria Janssen for Criminal Element

I eagerly scooped up Bold Strokes Books’ new anthology Women of the Mean Streets, because it fills a gap long empty in noir. For most of history, female characters in this mystery subgenre have been relegated to serving as either femmes fatale or victims.

Women of the Mean Streets, however, offers a wide range of roles for women in a wide range of literary styles, and can be enjoyed far beyond a lesbian audience.

Readers may pick up the title for Laura Lippman’s “A.R.M. and the Woman,” but my two favorite stories in the anthology, ones that illustrate the range of the collection, are Miranda Kent’s “Some Kind of Killing” and Lindy Cameron’s “Feedback.”

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FYI Review - This anthology contains the following:
-A.R.M. and the Woman by Laura Lippman
-Den of Inequity by Lori L. Lake
-Boomerang by Carsen Taite
-The Economics of Desire: A Cautionary Tale by Jeane Harris
-Some Kind of Killing by Miranda Kent
-Anything for the Theater by Clifford Henderson
-Social Work by Kendra Sennett
-Devil in Training by Ali Vali
-The Darkest Night of the Year by Victoria A. Brownworth
-Lost by J.M. Redmann
-Chasing Athena by Diane Anderson-Minshall
-Lucky Thirteen by Anne Laughlin
-Feedback by Lindy Cameron