Fighting Cock Press has published a collection of short stories in Night Call and Other Stories, Tales of Murder and Mystery by Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers writing as PJ Quinn. Pauline and Jo collected some of their short stories together where unexpected things happen. Gardeners disappear, ants invade houses and Morris dancing hides a murder. Apparently normal events slide into the supernatural.

PJ Quinn is the pen name of mother and daughter crime writing duo Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers. Jo challenged her mother to write a detective novel and somehow ended up writing it with her. The result is a series of five DI Ambrose Mysteries, set in the late 1950’s & early 1960’s, a period that now seems like an era ago.

Both were already established writers. Pauline had three novels published under her own name and Jo wrote for the legal press. Their five DI Ambrose Mysteries have given them a new identity: PJ Quinn, and a lot of fun.

Dip into their short stories. It’s like opening a box of chocolates. If one isn’t to your taste, just try the next one.