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The photographs are in black and white. They're moody, evocative and exquisite: you feel yourself being pulled into them, like it or not. There's just one - which inspired Chris Simm's story ''The Wizard's Place'', which has a sunny aspect and it's little surprise that the stories are all dark and usually murderous, which is almost a pity when Pembrokeshire is so beautiful. One of the photographs inspired two stories - ''Sorted'' by Toby Forward (which is perhaps my favourite) and ''Through the Mist'' by Martin Edwards, which was perhaps my least favourite because of the fantastical elements. I'm afraid that even Edwards's elegant writing can't tempt me down that road!

One of the joys of collections such as this is that it's a risk-free introduction to the work of authors you might not have encountered before. Helena Edwards is a new author, but her neat story ''House Guest'' with a twist I wasn't expecting has added her name to my 'watch' list. I'll be interested to see how she copes with a longer story. Valerie Laws - perhaps more famous for spray painting poetry on live sheep - intrigued me with her ''Mountains out of Molehills'', which neatly proved that risk might not be where you expect it to be.

For sheer pleasure in the writing my favourite was Margaret Murphy's ''Port Lion'': ''Mrs Jenkins, swaddled in jersey and resplendent in yellow, her pinkish hair a counterpoint, suggestive of her own rhubarb pudding''. I was most looking forward to a story from one of my favourite crime writers, Kate Ellis and ''Secrets'' didn't disappoint with its undertones of child abuse. Christine Poulson's ''Weeping Queens'' finishes the anthology with a story which invokes the Arthurian legends.