Sharyn McCrumb Books In Order

Ballad Books In Publication Order

  1. If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (1990)
  2. The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (1992)
  3. She Walks These Hills (1994)
  4. The Rosewood Casket (1996)
  5. The Ballad of Frankie Silver (1997)
  6. The Songcatcher (2001)
  7. Ghost Riders (2003)
  8. The Devil Amongst the Lawyers (2010)
  9. The Ballad of Tom Dooley (2011)
  10. King’s Mountain (2013)
  11. Nora Bonesteel’s Christmas Past (2014)
  12. Prayers the Devil Answers (2016)

Elizabeth MacPherson Books In Publication Order

  1. Sick of Shadows (1984)
  2. Lovely in Her Bones (1985)
  3. Highland Laddie Gone (1986)
  4. Paying the Piper (1988)
  5. The Windsor Knot (1990)
  6. Missing Susan (1991)
  7. MacPherson’s Lament (1992)
  8. If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him… (1995)
  9. The PMS Outlaws (2000)

Jay Omega Books In Publication Order

  1. Bimbos of the Death Sun (1987)
  2. Zombies of the Gene Pool (1992)

Malice Domestic Books In Publication Order

  1. Malice Domestic 1 (By:Elizabeth Peters) (1992)
  2. Malice Domestic 2 (By:Mary Higgins Clark) (1993)
  3. Malice Domestic 5 (By:Phyllis Whitney) (1996)
  4. Malice Domestic 7 (1998)
  5. Malice Domstic 8 (By:Margaret Maron) (1999)

St. Dale Books In Publication Order

  1. St. Dale (2005)
  2. Once Around The Track (2007)
  3. Faster Pastor (With: Adam Edwards) (2009)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Unquiet Grave (2017)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Our Separate Days (1989)
  2. Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories (1997)
  3. Fairy Tale Princesses of the Civil War (2012)
  4. Old Land, Dark Land, Strange Land (2017)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Sharyn McCrumb’s Appalachia (2011)

World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books In Publication Order

  1. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000)
  2. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
  3. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002)
  4. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 (2003)
  5. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 (2004)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Sisters in Crime 2 (1990)
  2. Great Writers and Kids Write Mystery Stories (1996)
  3. Vengeance Is Hers (1997)
  4. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 (2003)
  5. Thou Shalt Not Kill (2005)
  6. Transgressions (2005)
  7. Transgressions vol. 4 (2006)
  8. Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe (2008)
  9. Blood Lite (2008)
  10. The Monster’s Corner (2011)

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Sharyn McCrumb Books Overview

If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O

Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong.

When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her idyll is shattered. Then a local girl who looks like Peggy vanishes without a trace.

Although she was once famous, Peggy has no fondness for the old times. Those days are best left forgotten for Spencer Arrowood, too. But sometimes the past can’t rest, and those who try to forget it are doomed to relive it…
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The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter

When four members of the Underhill family are murdered, Laura Bruce agrees to become the guardian to the two surviving children, unaware that the local seer, Nora Bonesteel, predicts tragedy for her. NYT.

She Walks These Hills

Katie Wyler still crosses Ashe Mountain, and although a few can see her, Deputy Sheriff Martha Ayers doesn’t believe in ghosts. Hiram Sorley has escaped after 30 years in prison and he’s on his way home to Ashe Mountain. Only Martha seems to understand that Sorley’s wife and daughter are in danger.

The Rosewood Casket

The author of The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter and She Walks These Hills returns to Appalachia where local wise woman Nora Bonesteel faces a new predicament. When an old lover dies, Nora must carry out destiny’s grand plan for his burial. Unfortunately, destiny is mysterious, and those who don’t understand it threaten to blame Nora for a death that happened years ago. Simultaneous hardcover release from Dutton. 2 cassettes.

The Ballad of Frankie Silver

From New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb comes the fifth novel set in the Appalachian wilderness blending legends and folklore with high suspense. A career lawman will bear witness to the final judgement, as a man he put away twenty years ago is about to be excecuted for the brutal slaying of two hikers. However, his conscience is no longer clear to the point of absolute certainty about the man’s guilt. Also of intense interest to the lawman is the parallel between the current events and a legendary murder and execution over 100 years old the story of a great injustice, and a woman condemned to die for a crime she didn’t commit. Suddenly, the sheriff finds himself in a race against and across time to see that history doesn’t repeat itself!Praise for The Ballad of Frankie Silver: ‘…
a dense and lovely but very dark design that illustrates the social hypocrisy of the legal system as much as the harshness of mountain justice then and now.’ The New York Times Book Review ‘Reading a novel by Sharyn McCrumb is like listening to the movements of a symphony.’ BookPage ‘This novel will pass the test of time and be considered a classic in the years to come.’ Harriet Klausner ‘Sharyn McCrumb has dug more riches out of the Appalachians than some miners.’ Sunday World Herald

The Songcatcher

Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song. As a child she heard it from her relatives in the North Carolina mountains, and she knows that the song has been in her family since 1759, when her ancestor, nine year old Malcolm MacQuarry, kidnapped from the Scottish island of Islay, learned it aboard an English ship. The song accompanied young Malcolm when he made his way to Morristown, New Jersey, where he apprenticed with an attorney, became a lawyer himself, and fought in the American Revolution. The song came with Malcolm in 1790, when he left his family and traveled the Wilderness Road to homestead in western North Carolina, where he remarried and raised a second family. The song, passed down through the generations, carries Malcolm’s descendants through the settling of the frontier, the Civil War, the coming of the railroads, and into modern times, providing both solace in the present and a link to the past. Over the years, though, the memory of the old song has dimmed and Lark McCourry’s only hope of preserving her family legacy lies in mountain wise woman Nora Bonesteel, who talks to both the living and the dead.

Ghost Riders

The New York Times bestselling author of She Walks These Hills and The Rosewood Casket returns with another sweeping novel that juxtaposes the legends of the Civil War with the lives of the modern day mountain folk immortalized in her award winning books. In 1861 the Civil War reached the mountainous South where the enemy was your neighbor, the victims were your friends, and the wrong army was whichever one you joined. When Malinda Blalock’s husband, Keith, joined the army, she dressed as a boy and went with him. They spent the war close to home in the North Carolina mountains, acting as Union guerrilla fighters, raiding the farms of the Confederate sympathizers and making as much trouble as they could locally. As hard riding, deadly outlaws, Keith and Malinda avenged Confederate raids on their kin and neighbors. McCrumb also brings into her story the larger than life narrative of the historical political figure Zebulon Vance, a self made man and Confederate governor, who was from the mountains and fought for the interests of Appalachia within the hierarchy of the Confederacy. Linking the forces of historical unrest with the present day stories of mountain wisefolk Rattler and Nora Bonesteel, McCrumb weaves two overlapping narratives. It is up to Nora Bonesteel and Rattler to calm the Civil War ghosts who are still wandering the mountains, and prevent a clash between the living and the dead.

The Devil Amongst the Lawyers

In 1935, when Erma Morton, a beautiful young woman with a teaching degree, is charged with the murder of her father in a remote Virginia mountain community, the case becomes a cause c l bre for the national press. Eager for a case to replace the Lindbergh trial in the public’s imagination, the journalists descend on the mountain county intent on infusing their stories with quaint local color: horse drawn buggies, rundown shacks, children in threadbare clothes. They need tales of rural poverty to give their Depression era readers people whom they can feel superior to. The untruth of these cultural stereotypes did not deter the big city reporters, but a local journalist, Carl Jennings, fresh out of college and covering his first major story, reports what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty. This journey to a distant time and place summons up ghosts from the reporters pasts: Henry Jernigan s sojourn in Japan that ended in tragedy, Shade Baker s hardscrabble childhood on the Iowa prairie, and Rose Hanelon s brittle sophistication, a shield for her hopeless love affair. While they spin their manufactured tales of squalor, Carl tries to discover the truth in the Morton trial with the help of his young cousin Nora, who has the Sight. But who will believe a local cub reporter whose stories contradict the nation s star journalists? For the listener, the novel resonates with the present: an economic depression, a deadly flu epidemic, a world contending with the rise of political fanatics, and a media culture determined to turn news stories into soap operas for the diversion of the mas*ses.

The Ballad of Tom Dooley

A literary triumph what began as a fictional re telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura FosterHang down your head, Tom Dooley The folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio, recounts a tragedy in the North Carolina mountains after the Civil War. Laura Foster, a simple country girl, was murdered and her lover Tom Dula was hanged for the crime. The sensational elements in the case attracted national attention: a man and his beautiful, married lover accused of murdering the other woman; the former governor of North Carolina spearheading the defense; and a noble gesture from the prisoner on the eve of his execution, saving the woman he really loved. With the help of historians, lawyers, and researchers, Sharyn McCrumb visited the actual sites, studied the legal evidence, and uncovered a missing piece of the story that will shock those who think they already know what happened and may also bring belated justice to an innocent man. What seemed at first to be a sordid tale of adultery and betrayal was transformed by the new discoveries into an Appalachian Wuthering Heights. Tom Dula and Ann Melton had a profound romance spoiled by the machinations of their servant, Pauline Foster. Bringing to life the star crossed lovers of this mountain tragedy, Sharyn McCrumb gifts understanding and compassion to her compelling tales of Appalachia, and solidifies her status as one of today’s great Southern writers.

Sick of Shadows

The book that started it all for Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb’s widely acclaimed series featuring amateur sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson.
When delicate Eileen Chandler is set to marry, her family fears the man is a fortune hunter. Thank goodness, Eileen’s cousin Elizabeth MacPherson comes early for support. Unfortunately, Elizabeth also has some detecting to do, as a dead body is found, and none of the wedding party is above suspicion…
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‘A good deal of suspense…
McCrumb writes with a sharp pointed pen.’
LOS ANGELES TIMES

Lovely in Her Bones

‘Who but Sharyn McCrumb can make a skull with a bullet hole funny? Those who like sardonic wit, slightly bent characters, and good fun will love Lovely in Her Bones.’Tony HillermanThe sequel to SICK OF SHADOWS. When an Appalachian dig to determine if an obscure Indian tribe in North Carolina can lay legal claim to the land they live on is stopped on account of murder, Elizabeth MacPherson eager student of the rites of the past and mysteries of the present starts digging deep. And when she mixes a little modern know how with some old fashioned suspicions, Elizabeth comes up with a batch of answers that surprise even the experts…
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Highland Laddie Gone

‘I had a great time at Sharyn McCrumb’s inimitable version of the Highland games.’
Charlotte MacLeod
In her third outing as amateur sleuth, Elizabeth MacPherson has the chance to revel in the rites of the old country at the annual Glencoe Mountain Games. But the innocent ethnic fair is cursed when the loathed Colin Campbell is found murdered. When a second reveler is found dead, Elizabeth lays to hunt and untangles all…
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Paying the Piper

‘She’s Agatha Christie with an attitude; outrageous and engrossing at the same time.’Steven Womack, NASHVILLE BANNERBook four in Sharyn McCrumb’s Elizabeth MacPherson murder mystery series.A motley crew of American and British professionals and amateurs gathers for an archaeological dig into prehistoric burial rites on a small Scottish island. Things already aren’t going so well, when one of the strongest in the crew dies suddenly. Afraid for her life, fellow digger and forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson probes the rocky topsoil for a reason behind the evil aura of death that seems to hover over them. Is the excavation cursed by the ancient dead…
or is there a more modern explanation behind the group’s strangely rising mortality rate…
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The Windsor Knot

‘Delicious. Delightful. A Royal entertainment.’
Carolyn G. Hart
If forensic anthropologist and ameteur slueth Elizabeth MacPherson is to have tea with the Queen of England, she has to get married first. And in the space of five weeks, she plans to do just that. When an old neighbor receives word that her husband has died again, it’s up to Elizabeth to determine just whose ashes the double widow has been cursing at all these years…
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From Mystery Writers of America award winner Sharyn McCrumb, author of MacPHERSON’S LAMENT, and IF I’D KILLED HIM WHEN I MET HIM…

Missing Susan

Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb brings you her sixth Elizabeh MacPherson mystery novel. The unsinkable Elizabeth is on tour of England’s most famous murder sites, when Rowan Rover, the group leader, is quietly asked to commit murder. He does, of course, but not without misgivings not the least of which is having Elizabeth MacPherson, canny observer and all around murder spoiler, on his tail…
‘Sharyn McCrunb is definitely a rising star in the New Golden Age of mystery fiction. I look forward to reading her for a long time to come.’Elizabeth PetersFrom the Paperback edition.

MacPherson’s Lament

‘Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller.’Mary Higgins ClarkSharyn McCrumb’s acclaimed sequel to MISSING SUSAN. Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson heads to Danville, Virginia, to save her brother Bill a novice lawyer from a charge that could send him to prison. It seems that eight women, the daughters of Confederate veterans, had asked Bill to sell their antebellum mansion. But the real estate deal is the cover for a calculated deception. As Bill finds himself facing fraud charges, his clients suddenly disappear without a trace. It will fall to Elizabeth to follow a twisted trail of bitterness and resentment one that leads to a Civil War secret that may be the key to the ugly truth…
.A MAIN SLECTION OF THE MYSTERY GUILDFrom the Paperback edition.

If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him…

When forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson becomes the official P.I. for her brother Bill’s fledgling Virginia law firm, she quickly takes on two complex cases. Eleanor Royden, a perfect lawyer’s wife for twenty years, has shot her ex husband and his wife in cold blood. And Donna Jean Morgan is implicated in the death of her Bible thumping bigamist husband. Bill’s feminist firebrand partner, A. P. Hill, does her damnedest for Eleanor, an abused wife in denial, and Bill gallantly defends Donna Jean. Meanwhile, Elizabeth’s forensic expertise, including her special knowledge of poisons, gives her the most challenging case of her career…
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The PMS Outlaws

Bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb, internationally acclaimed for the ‘quiet fire’* of her Appalachian Ballad novels, clearly has a dark side–a wicked, sardonic wit that has prompted critics to compare her to Jane Austen and Jonathan Swift.

Readers and reviewers alike also have lauded Ms. McCrumb for her inspired chronicles of forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson. In her newest tale in the MacPherson saga, McCrumb examines society’s fascination with beauty–and the deceptiveness of outer appearances. Elizabeth herself, hospitalized for depression over her missing husband, learns that insanity liberates one from polite hypocrisy, enabling a ‘crazy lady’ to remark: ‘Anorexia is not a disease; it’s a career move.’

Out in the real world, Elizabeth’s brother Bill has bought a stately old mansion to use as his law office, only to find that the house comes with a charming codger-in-residence who is far too old to be a dangerous outlaw…
isn’t he? Meanwhile, the steel magnolia who is Bill’s law partner is trying to track down The PMS Outlaws–an escaped convict and her fugitive attorney–who are cruising pickup joints and wreaking a peculiar vengeance on lust-crazed men.

Sharyn McCrumb’s incisive wit and her genius for mirroring everyday life are once again on full display. The PMS Outlaws is an outrageous parable of modern mores, where beauty is the weapon, and nobody is safe.

*The New York Times Book Review

From the Paperback edition.

Bimbos of the Death Sun

‘Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller.’

Mary Higgins Clark

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD!

‘Sharyn McCrumb has few equals and no superiors among today’s novelists.’

San Diego Union Tribune

For one fateful weekend, the annual science fiction and fantasy convention, Rubicon, has all but taken over a usually ordinary hotel. Now the halls are alive with Trekkies, tech nerds, and fantasy gamers in their Viking finery all of them eager to hail their hero, bestselling fantasy author Appin Dungannon: a diminutive despot whose towering ego more than compensates for his 5′ 1′ height…
and whose gleeful disdain for his fawning fans is legendary.

Hurling insults and furniture with equal abandon, the terrible, tiny author proceeds to alienate ersatz aliens and make believe warriors at warp speed. But somewhere between the costume contest and the exhibition Dungeons & Dragons game, Dungannon gets done in. While die hard fans of Dungannon’s seemingly endless sword and sorcery series wonder how they’ll go on and hucksters wonder how much they can get for the dead man’s autograph, a hapless cop wonders, Who would want to kill Appin Dungannon? But the real question, as the harried convention organizers know, is Who wouldn’t ?

‘I loved Bimbos of the Death Sun
Beautifully observed, funny, nicely constructed, even compassionate.’

Robert Silverberg

From the Paperback edition.

Zombies of the Gene Pool

In the 1950s, a group of young science fiction writers, dreaming of literary immortality and calling themselves the Lanthanides, buried a time capsule with their stories and relics from the time. Now, in the 1990s, when several of them have become famous, the surviving Lanthanides are getting together at a special convention to dig up the capsule and open it. But the convention is startled by the appearance of a writer who was supposed to have died thirty years ago. Then murder materializes to throw the agenda further into chaos. Now, Jay Omega, author of Bimbos of the Death Sun, and his significant other, Dr. Marion Farley, must separate science fact from fiction and unearth a killer with a story of his own to tell.

Malice Domestic 1 (By:Elizabeth Peters)

A collection of mystery tales presents the work of such masters of the genre as Charlotte MacLeod, Barbara Paul, Charlotte and Aaron Elkins, and Audrey Peterson.

Malice Domestic 2 (By:Mary Higgins Clark)

An anthology of 17 tradidtional mysteries collected by master mystery writer Mary Higging Clark. Pages 6. 38′ x 4. 12′

Malice Domestic 7

The Malice Domestic mystery is a mystery of manners. No blood, no body parts, just nice civilized murder. And in this collection, thirteen outstanding mystery writers explore the unlucky fates of those who indulge their most murderous fantasies.

Malice Domstic 8 (By:Margaret Maron)

Margaret Maron Presents MALICE DOMESTIC 8 An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories Bear witness to murder most fouls and its finest scribes: Nevada Barr Amanda Cross Mary Daheim Jonathan Gash Edward D. Hoch Susan Holtzer H.R.F. Keating Susan Kenney Alanna Knight Janet Laurence Miriam Grace Monfredo Sister Carol Anne O’Marie Abigail Padget & Douglas Dennis Sample a delectable bit of the mysterious, the bizarre, and the murderously outrageous Cyber love meets sabotage in a case of romance gone dreadfully wrong A writer with an exclusive story finds a way to keep his source quiet for good London during the blitz provides an excellent place to bury trouble AND MORE!

St. Dale

A New York Times Bestselling Author

Set on a Dale Earnhardt Memorial Pilgrimage NASCAR bus tour, St. Dale looks into the heart of America its secular saints and cereal box heroes, wild dreams and unrealized ambitions, heartbreaking losses and second chances and celebrates it unbreakable spirit.

Once Around The Track

‘McCrumb draws you close, makes you care.’ Los Angeles Times Racing fans have never seen anything like it and they’ve seen plenty the first all women’s team in stock car racing history. Already a national sensation, the spotlight heats up when financial challenges force Team 86 to hire a male ‘wheel man.’ And Badger Jenkins is a man all right a sweet faced Georgian who oozes aw shucks charm off the track and unleashes blistering speed in competition. But the real Badger is a hard man to know. Just ask the women whose job it is to keep both car and driver in one piece. From crew chief and team manager Tuggle to engine specialist Rosalind Manning, publicist Melanie Sark and diehard fan Taran Stiles, this asphalt sisterhood will power through a racing season of dizzying highs and terrifying lows to prove that women can do a man’s job. And when the unthinkable happens, each will realize that they’ve been hurtling at breakneck speed toward a moment that will change them forever.

Rave Reviews For Sharyn McCrumb

‘McCrumb writes with a quiet fire like every true storyteller, she has the Sight.’ The New York Times Book Review

‘There is no one quite like her among present day writers. No one better, either.’ The San Diego Union Tribune

‘McCrumb portrays people so well it makes your heart ache.’ Atlanta Journal Constitution

Faster Pastor (With: Adam Edwards)

When a NY Times best-selling author and a NASCAR driver team up to write a Southern novel, the result is a literary match made in heaven. She has skills in description and characterization. He has life experience and the technical knowledge of racing. When aspiring NASCAR driver Camber Berkley wrecks his car and –literally– crashes a funeral in the small town of Judas Grove, the locals consider him an answer to prayer. The deceased was an elderly NASCAR fan with no living relatives, and his will stipulates that the money be given to one of the village churches–to the one with the faster pastor. The ministers are to borrow stock cars from regular drivers at the county speedway, and race for the $2 million legacy. There’s a problem. None of the ministers knows how to race. But when a real, live NASCAR driver turns up in the county jail, charged with reckless driving, their problem is solved. Camber is sentenced to community service, teaching ten middle-aged ministers how to race stock cars. For Camber, the cynical sophisticate, this sojourn in a small town will repay his teaching with life lessons in faith, trust and friendship. The ministers find that racing is a test of skill as well as faith, and, when Camber’s life is suddenly in jeopardy, they are required to produce a small miracle–with the help of another jail inmate, a mysterious Mexican named Jesus. Will the best man win? Only God knows. Sharyn McCrumb and Adam Edwards have written a wise and wonderful novel about faith, small town values, and the miracle of friendship. Filled with humor, affectionate portraits of Southern characters, and the breakneck suspense of stock car racing, Faster Pastor is a blessing to readers of Southern literature.

Our Separate Days

Short stories and poems reflect life in southern Appalachia.

Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories

‘In an earlier life, McCrumb must have been a balladeer, singing of restless spirits, star crossed lovers, and the consoling beauty of nature…
. The overall effect is spellbinding.’ The Washington Post Bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb is ‘a born storyteller’ Mary Higgins Clark who astonishes readers and reviewers with the power and scope of her talent, prompting the San Diego Union Tribune to declare: ‘There is no one quite like her among present day writers. No one better, either.’Foggy Mountain Breakdown, the first ever collection of Sharyn McCrumb’s short fiction, is a literary quilting of old and new, humorous and heartfelt, offering award winning works and two stories never before published, contrasting mountain childhoods past and present. Chilling tales of suspense alternate with evocative character portraits and compelling narratives that embrace the southern Appalachian locales and themes of McCrumb’s acclaimed Ballad Novels. Within this cornucopia of two dozen stories, Old Rattler, a mountain healer, skirmishes with a serial killer…
Princess Di investigates long kept secrets within the House of Windsor…
A reincarnated murder victim seeks delicious revenge…
And while honeymooning in the bridegroom’s ancestral hilltop homeplace, two newlyweds harbor second thoughts. The author’s perfect pitch ear for dialogue and ability to illuminate the dark side of human nature merge with her brilliant artistry to make Foggy Mountain Breakdown a virtuoso collection for devotees of Sharyn McCrumb and for the legion of new readers who will find themselves caught under her spell.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

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More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

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More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

Great Writers and Kids Write Mystery Stories

This anthology features 13 mystery stories written by well known mystery authors collaborating with their children and grandchildren. Each story features a short personal introduction by the adult and child writing team on what it was like to collaborate on their included story. Contributors include Scott Turow, Sharyn McCrumb, Stuart Kaminsky, Jonathan Kellerman, Elizabeth Engstrom, and many others.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

The greatest story ever told; the rise and fall of civilizations, empires, kings, despots, prophets and disciples; tales of love, betrayal, revenge, war, and disaster, the most fundamental and eternal myths and fables of Judeo Christian society; the end of the world the Bible has all of these. And now acclaimed mystery author Anne Perry has culled together an extraordinary list of writers from Sharyn McCrumb, Carole Nelson Douglas, Robert Barnard, Marcia Talley, Susan Moody and Peter Lovesey to Sharan Newman, Nancy Pickard, Reginald Hill, Gillian Linscott, Simon Brett, and Peter Robinson to contribute all new mystery and crime stories inspired by and based on these most ancient of biblical tales.

From Sampson and Delilah to David and Goliath; from Mount Sinai to the Last Supper, Thou Shalt Not Kill explores the stories of the bible as chilling expressions of the most basic instincts found in the Good Book. With fifteen unique and inspired twists on the traditional mystery story, Thou Shalt Not Kill is an inimitable edition to any library.

Transgressions

Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never before published tales from today’s very best novelists. Faeturing: ‘Walking Around Money’ by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he’s left holding the bag.’Hostages’ by Anne Perry: The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits and honor still die hard, even at gunpoint.’The Corn Maiden’ by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen year old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it.’Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line’ by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.’The Resurrection Man’ by Sharyn McCrumb’: During America’s first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive.’Merely Hate’ by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.’The Things They Left Behind’ by Stephen King: In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers when he begins finding the things they left behind.’The Ransome Women’ by John Farris: A young and beautiful starving artist is looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative year long modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome’s past subjects? ‘Forever’ by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop he’s a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn’t suicide it’s murder, and he’s going to find how who was behind it, and how the did it.’Keller’s Adjustment’ by Lawrence Block: Everyone’s favorite hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block’s novella, where the philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.

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Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never before published tales from today’s very best novelists. Faeturing: ‘Walking Around Money’ by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he’s left holding the bag.’Hostages’ by Anne Perry: The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits and honor still die hard, even at gunpoint.’The Corn Maiden’ by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen year old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it.’Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line’ by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.’The Resurrection Man’ by Sharyn McCrumb’: During America’s first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive.’Merely Hate’ by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.’The Things They Left Behind’ by Stephen King: In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers when he begins finding the things they left behind.’The Ransome Women’ by John Farris: A young and beautiful starving artist is looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative year long modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome’s past subjects? ‘Forever’ by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop he’s a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn’t suicide it’s murder, and he’s going to find how who was behind it, and how the did it.’Keller’s Adjustment’ by Lawrence Block: Everyone’s favorite hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block’s novella, where the philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.

Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

Compiled by multi award winning editor, Ellen Datlow, this collection commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth. It features Poe inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the field, including Kim Newman, Pat Cadigan, Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Suzy McKee Charnas and others. This all star line up has several Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree and British Fantasy Award winners.

Blood Lite

The Horror Writers Association Presents

Blood Lite


a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue in cheek wit to temper the jagged edge.

Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a gory twist in ‘An Evening with Al Gore’…
In an all new Dresden Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly paranormal doings, there’s no such thing as a ‘Day Off’ for the Chicago P.D.’s wizard detective, Harry Dresden…
Sherrilyn Kenyon turns a cubicle dwelling MBA with no life into a demon fighting seraph with one hell of an afterlife in ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’…
Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold out’s ance tour, but behind the scenes, a disgruntled ghost has a bone to pick, in Kelley Armstrong’s ‘The Ungrateful Dead.’ Plus tales guaranteed to get under your skin in a good way from

Janet Berliner Don D’Ammassa Nancy Holder Nancy KilpatrickJ. A. Konrath and F. Paul Wilson Joe R. Lansdale Will LudwigsenSharyn McCrumb Mark Onspaugh Mike Resnick Steven SavileD. L. Snell Eric James Stone Jeff Strand Lucien Soulban Matt Venne Christopher Welch

So let the blood flow and laughter reign because when it comes to facing our deepest, darkest fears, a little humor goes a long way!

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