There is no redemptive ending to Pelican Girls. It is a story of lives, not of triumphs.

The main penitentiary gate opened on schedule, without any last minute hitch. Sandra Treming and four other old cons walked out into a...

The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye begins, as do all fairy stories, by announcing that it’s a fairy story. ‘Once upon a time, when men...