Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection TELL TALE, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years.
Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life in the most profound way.
Revel in the stories of the 1930’s woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour.
These wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared by the critics to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by The Times as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.
*Review Copy received via publisher in exchange for an honest review. The thoughts are entirely my own and in no way biased.*
Tell Tale is a collection of short stories by mystery maestro, Jeffrey Archer. It is his first collection of short stories in a decade, so of course, it is a huge deal. I’m gonna be honest, I hadn’t read a complete Archer novel before this. I remember starting Paths of Glory but I never made it to the end. In my defense, I was 15 then. I didn’t really appreciate quality fiction then. But, I hadn’t picked another Archer since then. This was my first attempt after that disaster and boy am I glad I took it!
This collection of stories has blown my mind away! It is so good. There’s mystery and murder and IT IS AWESOME! The writing is absolutely sensational. Archer weaves a narrative so compelling you can’t help but get sucked into it, and then, it’s just you and you need to make it to the end because you just HAVE to know. I really liked that feeling. I was so into it, I just read and read and read and it was awesome! Made me want to back in time and hit my younger self in the head and tell her to just read the damn book she had!
Of course, as is the case with most short collections, I liked some and I didn’t like some. But, overall, it was a great, great collection and I loved it!
