Silent End
By Nancy Springer
ISBN# 9781611874334
Author’s Website:  http://www.nancyspringer.info/

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Silent End is the second short story I read by  Nancy Springer.  It is vastly different to the other story I read, The Boy who called God ‘She’ (stay tuned for that review as well) . It is an old-fashioned mystery that introduces us to Judith, the owner of a pottery store who is in the middle of an awful divorce.

She is bitter and it’s clear that the divorce has gotten ugly. The morning we meet her she opens the store to find that someone has broken in and destroyed her pieces…and something smells hinky in the store, as in there’s a dead body in her kiln. She takes refuge in her Scrabble Club, partly because of the shock of events, convinced her husband is responsible for the murder…however, the truth, when revealed, is not as simple as that.

Springer is a well-established mystery and crime author and it shows. The story flows along, building the tension of the crime in a few short, satisfying pages to ending that left me amused with a wonderful play on words.