Teeth Marks by Matthew WeberMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Review: TEETH MARKS by Matthew Weber
Don't mistake this wonderful collection as "only" Deep South hillbilly Noir. Don't sell it short. Matthew Weber is quite a talent, and every one of the twelve stories collected in TEETH MARKS demonstrates a gifted writer and polished quality. Of course there is the occasional hillbilly, and the setting is Southern (like a number of authors, Matt Weber builds a not-quite-fictional and very realistic locale in Trappers Valley and Shady Brake and surrounds). Where he especially excels comes in his polish and in his characters. This is a writer who clearly has spent his life to date in observation and understanding of human character and the spectrum of eccentricity.
This author deserves a wide audience, and we readers deserve him. (Studying how he writes would be beneficial, too.) I'm going to be seeking out his books.
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