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|title=The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10

|sort=Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10, The

|publisher=Robinson

|date=February 2013

|website=http://maximjakubowski.co.uk/

|summary=Hit and miss collection would be improved by cutting out quite a few stories, but has some good reads.

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A couple of years ago, I reviewed [[The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 by Maxim Jakubowski]] and it was something of a frustrating experience. There were some really good short stories in there, from excellent authors, but they were padded out by a significant number of completely unmemorable ones. The latest in the series suffers from the same lack of quality control - if anything, the ratio of hits to misses is somewhat lower.

All in all, I'm struggling to recommend it particularly highly, but at an average cost of 20p a story, it's hard to suggest that it should be completely avoided. I think the six I mentioned above, along with Phil Lovesey's ''Stardust'' and Margaret Murphy's ''The Message'', are strong enough to make it at least a mild recommendation, but I'd really like to see a slightly less mammoth read next time around with a higher average quality of story.

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