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Reviewed by Inga Buccella for Readers' Favorite
Miss Win: Tales of Intrigue and Deception by Rosemary Mairs is a collection of short stories. Every story has a distinctive flavor. Mystery, suspense, and evil deeds are plentiful. Each of the twenty-four stories is an individual and unique narrative and takes only minutes to read. One story, “The Portrait,” draws its mood from a dreamy seaside setting. Marlene, the protagonist, is a painter who prefers painting seascapes to portraits, but a young man who is the spitting image of her deceased husband asks her to do just that. Intrigue abounds in this one. The short stories are tales of deception and evil with a side of depravity in a couple of them.
How did author Rosemary Mairs do it? In her short story collection, Miss Win, with only a few pages per story, she has developed deep characters, elegant plots, twists, and artful conclusions. The beauty of the collection, along with the superb writing, is its efficiency. Each intriguing tale takes only minutes to read but longer to savor, as they are all satisfying. Because Mairs has the talent to appeal to human fears and wants, the stories are logical but suspenseful and mysterious. These little stories are thrilling and astonishing treasures. Reading one a night for twenty-four nights, I felt I had a front-row seat in a Belfast theater to as many one-act plays. Miss Win by Rosemary Mairs is best enjoyed on a rainy day, sipping a cup of Irish coffee in a cosy room.
