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Reviewed By Jessyca Garcia for Readers’ Favorite 
The short story Strawberry Sorbet: A Noir by Landon Wake is an entertaining piece. The story takes you back to the days when gumshoes and dames roamed the streets. When Detective Richard Hankins decides to take on Ms. Scarlett Strawberry’s case concerning her husband, he realizes he may just have found the Lamplight Slasher serial killer. The same killer that killed his son.
Strawberry Sorbet: A Noir may be a short story, but there is a lot going on in it. Wake wrote this story like an old fashioned detective novel, from the way Detective Hankins talks to the way Ms. Strawberry acts. I was taken back in time to when Dick Tracy was the in thing. Every scene I read I imagined in black and white. The story is very short, but Wake is able to move the action at a fast pace and not leave out important details.
I love surprise endings in stories and Wake did not disappoint me with his ending in this one. I sincerely hope that this is not the last I hear of Detective Richard Hankins. I can tell that his character has a lot of baggage that this story has not even begun to touch. I can only imagine what else is in store for him. If you enjoy old fashioned detective stories, then you should read Strawberry Sorbet: A Noir. Hopefully, I will read more of Detective Hankins’ adventures in the future. Landon Wake has gained a new fan in me.
Great Story!
“I’m liking the short ones lately. It was the perfect length for the story.
We’ve got a detective who is still not over his son’s brutal murder by the one criminal he was never able to catch. Enter a woman who oozes sex appeal and claims to know the elusive serial killer. It sounds too good to be true when the woman tells him exactly where to find the man. It’s too easy, right?
I’ve gotta say, I was surprised a story so short could pack the punch of a longer tale, with all the twists and excitement. Well done.”
by Macqueen
Black and White and READ all over.
Starting with the cover and continuing with the very first page.
“Strawberry Sorbet” drops you head-first into a mystery story that makes you feel like you’ve stepped into an old black-and-white gumshoe movie from the 40s starring Bogart or Cagney, with main character being the bedraggled hero with the rumpled suit and the metaphorical demons that haunt him.
Packed with action, suspense and intrigue despite its short length, Landon Wake brings a delicious flavor to his writing, punctuated by cool fight scenes and dialogue that make you long for the potboilers and pulp fiction of old, when everything was in black and white … with just a touch of red.