“ This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ― Rumi
Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in
Contents:Role model / T. White --Crime scene / C. Wheat --The sentence / M. Wallace --Blood types / J. Smith --A terrible thing / S. Singer --He loved her so much / S. Scoppettone --Hog heaven / G. Roberts --Afraid all the time / N. Pickard --The locked t
Selected from the acclaimed of anthologies mystery and suspense, The Best of Sisters In Crime offers a killer collection of award-winning authors and 21 short stories of felonious, yet feminine, mystery fiction.
An anthology of 17 tradidtional mysteries collected by master mystery writer Mary Higging Clark. Contents: (all stories copyright 1992) * As It Was in the Beginning by Mary Higgins Clark * Who Shot Mrs. Byron Boyd? by Amanda Cross * Dog Television by Robe
Here's your ticket to the greatest mystery-writing workshop ever!In this extraordinary compilation, more than three dozen members of the Mystery Writers of America share insights and advice that can help make your writing dreams a reality.You'll learn how
In this work 40 leading writers explain what first made them interested in reading. They describe the comics and childhood classics that first inspired them to read, and what today continues to do so. Contributors include Catherine Cookson, Jeanette Winte
Contents: * Foreword by Marilyn Wallace * Death Scene, or, The Moor of Venice by P.M. Carlson * Voices in the Coalbin by Mary Higgins Clark * The Celestial Buffet by Susan Dunlap * The Snake Plant by Jean Fiedler * Lucky Numbers by Mickey Friedman * The E
The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Ca
A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thrill