It was the summer my father rented the villa in Tuscany that I killed my mother’s lover.
— From "Summer of the Black Madonna"

The Whole She-Bang 3

22 stories by Sisters in Crime Canada

In the summer of 1957, Isobel is shocked to learn her mother is having an affair. But what is even more disturbing is the identity of her lover. When it becomes apparent that her mother has no intention of ending the relationship, fourteen-year-old Isobel decides to take matters into her own hands.

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This is the third installment in the Toronto Sisters in Crime Whole She-Bang crime short story anthologies. Authors include Cathy Ace, Jayne Barnard, Anne Barton, Miriam Clavir, Susan Daly, Lisa de Nikolits, Alice Fitzpatrick, Valerie Hauch, Elizabeth Hosang, H. MacDonald-Archer, J.A. Menzies, Lynne Murphy, Helen Nelson, Ed Piwowarczyk, Andre Ramshaw, Darlene Ryan, Judy Penz Sheluk and Coleen Steele.