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Reduction In Force - Two Suburban Noir Short Stories Kindle Edition

by Cathryn Grant (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
REDUCTION IN FORCE is a collection of two Suburban Noir Short Stories, originally published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

TALKING HERSELF TO DEATH: Eddie is the only person at CompuTech who can tolerate Jill Madison’s tedious chatter.

Even Eddie’s patience wears thin after Jill’s employment is terminated and she pushes their friendship too far.

A GOOD MAN: When his job becomes the victim of a “reduction in force”, David realizes that being a good man hasn’t paid off, so why bother?

Also included are the first three chapters of Buried By Debt, a Suburban noir novel where love, lust, and money collide into a deadly conclusion.

Cathryn Grant is the best-selling author of The Other Couple and the Alexandra Mallory series.
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  3. Publication date
    November 10, 2013
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"Cathryn's writing style amazed me. She was able to get inside the heads of her characters to an incredible degree and expose their vulnerabilities, their insecurities, their fears, and even mental illness without flinching."

Her fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines, The Shroud Quarterly Journal, and The Best of Every Day Fiction. Her short story "I Was Young Once" received an honorable mention in the 2007 Zoetrope All-story Short Fiction contest.

She's the author of Suburban Noir novels, psychological thrillers, and ghost stories.

When she's not writing, Cathryn reads fiction, eavesdrops, and plays very high handicap golf. She lives on the Central California coast with her husband and two cats.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0072Z36TI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ D2C Perspectives
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 10, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.2 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 75 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0983990963
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

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Cathryn Grant

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Cathryn is the author of over thirty psychological suspense novels, including the addictive ALEXANDRA MALLORY series featuring a sociopath you can’t help but love.

The things that cause torment in real life—obsession and revenge, guilt and envy and longing—are endlessly fascinating in fiction and she never grows tired of writing stories about characters struggling to overcome the worst.

Cathryn also writes ghost stories because who knows what lies beyond our senses—The Haunted Ship Trilogy and the Madison Keith series of novellas.

When she’s not writing, she’s usually reading psychological thrillers, watching crime documentaries, walking on the beach, or playing golf, going way out of her way to avoid hitting her ball in the sand or the water. She lives on the Central California Coast with her husband and her cat, Cleopatra.

You can get in touch with her by email, find her social media links, or sign up for her monthly newsletter at her website, cathryngrant. As a thank you for signing up, you’ll receive a free short story about Alexandra Mallory.

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  • Sherrill P. Witte
    5.0 out of 5 stars The art of the short story
    Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2012
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    It truly is an art to compose a short story that pulls the reader in, takes them along for a (short) ride and then lets them out feeling like they went somewhere.
    Catherine Grant does just that - and her prose is pretty sharp too.
    Looking forward to reading more of her work.
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  • VINNY
    2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2017
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    Very boring
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  • Teresa Jarvis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good short stories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2024
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    Three good short stories kept you guessing until the end. Would recommend
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