Nancy Pickard Books In Order

Jenny Cain Books In Publication Order

  1. Generous Death (1984)
  2. Say No to Murder (1985)
  3. No Body (1986)
  4. Marriage Is Murder (1987)
  5. Dead Crazy (1988)
  6. Bum Steer (1990)
  7. I.O.U. (1992)
  8. But I Wouldn’t Want to Die There (1993)
  9. Confession (1994)
  10. Twilight (1996)

Eugenia Potter Books In Publication Order

  1. The Cooking School Murders (By:Virginia Rich) (1982)
  2. The Cooking School Murders (By:Virginia Rich) (1982)
  3. The Baked Bean Supper Murders (By:Virginia Rich) (1983)
  4. The Baked Bean Supper Murders (By:Virginia Rich) (1983)
  5. The Nantucket Diet Murders (By:Virginia Rich) (1985)
  6. The Nantucket Diet Murders (By:Virginia Rich) (1985)
  7. The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders (With: Virginia Rich) (1992)
  8. The Blue Corn Murders (With: Virginia Rich) (1998)
  9. The Secret Ingredient Murders (With: Virginia Rich) (2001)

Marie Lightfoot Books In Publication Order

  1. The Whole Truth (2000)
  2. Ring of Truth (2001)
  3. The Truth Hurts (2002)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Virgin of Small Plains (2006)
  2. The Scent of Rain and Lightning (2010)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Storm Warnings (1999)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path (With: Lynn Lott) (2003)
  2. Bigger Better Braver (2020)

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)

Fearless Jones Books In Publication Order

  1. The Plot Thickens (With: Janet Evanovich,Lawrence Block,Linda Fairstein,Nelson DeMille,Donald E Westlake,Mary Higgins Clark,Carol Higgins Clark,Walter Mosley,Edna Buchanan,Ann Rule) (1997)
  2. Fearless Jones (By:Walter Mosley) (2001)
  3. Fear Itself (By:Walter Mosley) (2003)
  4. Fear of the Dark (By:Walter Mosley) (2006)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Sisters in Crime 2 (1990)
  2. Tales of Obsession (1994)
  3. Malice Domestic 3 (1994)
  4. Murder, They Wrote (1997)
  5. Vengeance Is Hers (1997)
  6. The Plot Thickens (1997)
  7. Funny Bones: 15 New Tales of Murder and Mayhem (1997)
  8. The Night Awakens (1998)
  9. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998)
  10. Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives (1998)
  11. Mom, Apple Pie and Murder (1999)
  12. Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas (1999)
  13. The First Lady Murders (1999)
  14. Diagnosis Dead (1999)
  15. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
  16. Malice Domestic 10 (2001)
  17. Naked Came the Phoenix (2001)
  18. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002)
  19. Thou Shalt Not Kill (2005)
  20. By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2010)
  21. Manhattan Mayhem (2015)
  22. Silent Night, Deadly Night (2016)

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Nancy Pickard Books Overview

Generous Death

As director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, Jenny Cain is privy to the charitable intentions of the town’s wealthiest citizens. There’s eccentric old Arnie Culverson, who’s promised millions to the local art museum. Who’s found there one bright winter morning, neatly tucked into a priceless antique Chinese bed. With pillow and blanket. Dead. Then another dearly beloved donor dies in the night. And the killer leaves behind a nasty rhyme suggesting rich and beautiful Jenny will be next!

Say No to Murder

Jenny Cain was thrilled about the Liberty Harbor Restoration, a picturesque collection of shops, museums and restaurants. But when a runaway truck barreled into the project committee, it seemed someone in Port Frederick was out to sink Liberty Harbor. Then a wooden cross raised in unholy wrath made the message clear. Murderously clear. As director of the town’s Civic Foundation, Jenny should have been glad when police detective Geof Bushfield reeled in a prime suspect. Unfortunately, it was the one person she was desperate to prove innocent. Fishing for a ruthless killer, she had to bait her trap fast before the cold New England waters closed in over her own head!

Marriage Is Murder

Jenny Cain and police detective Geof Bushfield already had pre nuptial jitters. Then a sudden wave of domestic violence rocked placid Port Frederick in just two weeks, the husbands of three battered wives were shot dead. Homicide was all too familiar to Geof, but this was enough to make him want to quit the force. Except that none of the wives confessed and none of the guns were found. As Geof searched for clues, Jenny uncovered a dangerous secret a murderous obsession that threatened to tear Port Frederick apart!

Dead Crazy

Award winning author Nancy Pickard has been receiving high acclaim for her mystery series starring sleuth Jenny Cain. This time Cain finds herself following the trail of a possible paranoid schizophrenic slasher only to uncover clues that put her squarely in the sights of a cold blooded murderer! ‘An outstanding mystery series that just keeps getting better’. ALA Booklist.

Bum Steer

From witty, suspenseful, sexy mysteries featuring the charming and complex amateur sleuth, Jenny Cain. In Bum Steer, a mysterious murder and a strange bequest send Jenny to the wild, wild West.

I.O.U.

When Jenny’s mother dies of pneumonia after years in a mental institution, an anonymous voice whispers in the crowded graveyard, ‘Forgive me. It was an accident…
‘. And when Jenny asks too many questions, an attack on Jenny’s life is staged to look like a suicide attempt. ‘A compelling tale of sin, guilt, and the havoc human beings wreak upon one another…
‘. San Diego Union.

But I Wouldn’t Want to Die There

After the brutal murder of her friend Carol Margolis, Jenny Cain travels to New York, where she takes charge of Carol’s job and the murder investigation. By the author of Bum Steer.

Confession

Jenny Cain would never forget the hot Massachusetts summer day fate knocked at her door. Fate was a teenaged boy with rumpled clothes, a motorcycle, and a shocking but credible story: Jenny’s husband, Geof, was his biological father. The boy, David Mayer, wasn’t looking for an emotional reunion, but he did have an agenda. His parents and he was quick to make the point that Geof was nothing to him died earlier in the year, a murder/suicide according to the police. The cops were wrong, David said, and Geof was a cop, and he owed it to David to prove that Ron Mayer did not kill his invalid wife and then himself. As David lured Jenny and Geof to carefully placed clues, including two bizarre videotaped Confessions of ‘sin,’ another murder was committed. And Jenny knew that no matter what the truth was about David Mayer’s parents, her own life and marriage would be altered forever…
.

Twilight

Jenny Cain is up to her ears in plans for the Port Frederick Autumn Festival when a young widow comes to her with a heart breaking story. Melissa Barney’s husband was recently hit by a car at the intersection of a nature trail and a highway. Barney wants to close the trail, and Jenny is drawn into a long running controversy that threatens disaster for all she holds dear.

The Nantucket Diet Murders (By:Virginia Rich)

Warm memories and good food greeted Mrs. Potter’s retum to her beloved Nantucket, but so did a chilling surprise. Her old friends had a dangerous new look: dangerously thin and dressed to kill!

Was something sinister going on? A handsome new diet doctor had won over the richest widows on the island with his weight loss secrets and his very personal attention. But when sudden death was seved up along with delightful Down East dishes try sinfully rich Scrimshaw Inn Rum Pie or tangy Nantucket Cranberry Cup Pudding!, the inimitable Mrs. Potter knew it was time to stir the pot and come up with a devilishly clever culinary killer.

The Nantucket Diet Murders (By:Virginia Rich)

Warm memories and good food greeted Mrs. Potter’s retum to her beloved Nantucket, but so did a chilling surprise. Her old friends had a dangerous new look: dangerously thin and dressed to kill!

Was something sinister going on? A handsome new diet doctor had won over the richest widows on the island with his weight loss secrets and his very personal attention. But when sudden death was seved up along with delightful Down East dishes try sinfully rich Scrimshaw Inn Rum Pie or tangy Nantucket Cranberry Cup Pudding!, the inimitable Mrs. Potter knew it was time to stir the pot and come up with a devilishly clever culinary killer.

The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders (With: Virginia Rich)

When a dinner guest of Eugenia Potter is found poisoned, supposedly from Mrs. Potter’s famous twenty seven ingredient chili, the flabbergasted hostess knows she must act quickly before someone else is murdered.

The Blue Corn Murders (With: Virginia Rich)

Award winner Nancy Pickard serves up a new and wickedly delicious Eugenia Potter culinary mystery that her ravenous fans are certain to enjoy. In Eugenia Potter, author Virginia Rich created one of the mystery genre’s most endearing sleuths a character the San Francisco Chronicle called ‘one of the most delightful new detectives to appear in years.’ With the sad passing of Virginia Rich, author Nancy Pickard picked up pen and spoon and continued the adventures, culinary and deductive, of Mrs. Potter, first in The 27 Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders, and now in The Blue Corn Murders. Partaking of such treats as Cream Cheese Corn Bread and Sweet Dream Cookies, the inimitable Eugenia ‘Genia’ Potter visits the Medicine Wheel Archaeological Camp near Cortez, Colorado, where she hopes to glean the wisdom of the ancients and see some exciting ruins. When trouble begins to brew a busload of youngsters disappears and a pair of visitors to the camp mysteriously turns up dead Genia shows that even out of the kitchen, she can still take the heat.

The Secret Ingredient Murders (With: Virginia Rich)

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as ‘one of the most delightful new detectives to appear in years,’ Eugenia Potter is back in the kitchen and on the case of a wily killer who has shattered the peace of an idyllic New England town. The beloved detective and chef extraordinaire created by the late Virginia Rich continues her adventures in this delectable mystery, penned by Rich’s collaborator, Nancy Pickard. Now Mrs. Potter returns to solve a family matter of the worst kind in The Secret Ingredient Murders. Summoned from her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great nephew and his twin sister, Genia Potter takes a rental on the Rhode Island coast. Old acquaintance Stanley Parker is only too happy to welcome Genia to bucolic Devon. He has already put the boy to work in his greenhouse, and Genia and her great niece are soon busily preparing for the tasting party that she and Stanley are hosting that evening at her cottage. A passionate cook and recipecollector himself, Stanley has already roped Genia into collaborating on The Secret Ingredient Cookbook, chock full of Rhode Island culinary mysteries. Now is their chance to test some recipes and solicit others from each of the invited. Stanley has carefully selected the six guests. And each has been asked to contribute a recipe with one secret ingredient. Genia asks no questions until the lobster bisque is cold and all but one are present. Where is Stanley? Dead. And unlamented. Has one of the guests concocted a secret recipe for murder? Everyone has a motive. And everyone has a secret including Genia’s troubled great nephew, the prime suspect…
. There’s no time to lose. But Genia’s sleuthing soon leads her back to Stanley’s treasured cookbook. Some cooks would kill for his secrets. Someone already has. Now Genia is about to stir up the killer again in a mystery that dishes up plenty of rousing entertainment and good old fashioned suspense…
just what we’ve come to expect from this wickedly brilliant series.

The Whole Truth

‘Nancy Pickard pushes at the presumed limits of crime fiction ‘ said the Los Angeles Times Book Review, praising the award winning creator of the Jenny Cain mysteries. Now, Pickard blurs the line between fiction and reality in a novel of gripping intensity, and premieres a superb new hero*ine: true crime author Marie Lightfoot. For her next surefire bestseller, Marie is covering the trial of a Florida killer a case that penetrates her own life, layer by disturbing layer. Whether real like Ted Bundy, or imagined like Hannibal Lecter, few killers of our time are in the same league as Raymond Raintree. And as he stands flanked by lawyers in a Florida courtroom, waiting to be convicted for the murder of Natalie Mae McCullen, Marie Lightfoot is taking it all in. A small, gutsy blonde renowned for her true crime bestsellers, Marie knows the graphic and disturbing case will make her best book yet because Raintree’s shocking crime, vile beyond imagining, is also impossible to turn away from. But there is something about the case and Raintree’s involvement that bothers her. No one knows where Raintree, a man as slight and immature as a preteen boy, took Natalie after he abducted her. No one knows how Natalie bright, independent, and with no fear of the dark could be lured into a stranger’s boat on a lonely waterway. And only one witness saw a man who may have been Raintree motoring along in a water taxi on the night Natalie disappeared. Even if the police can’t provide answers, Marie intends to leave no loose ends. Starting with a prison meeting with Raintree, the steely nerved writer follows a twisted path that leads to Natalie’s parents, to a coincidence that doesn’t quite gel, and to a place she has resisted all her life: the dark recesses of her own soul, where she hides the secrets of her own lost past. When Raymond escapes, Marie a curious contradiction of celebrity author and introspective loner becomes a sitting duck for a killer who just might be smart enough to outwit her. And evil enough to take her to hell before she dies. A masterpiece of psychological suspense, The Whole Truth is a compelling look at our fascination with the horrific crimes of our time. Nancy Pickard’s characters are as close to flesh and blood as fiction can get and her writing is as close to perfection.

Ring of Truth

With the bestseller THE WHOLE TRUTH, Nancy Pickard introduced gutsy, charismatic Marie Lightfoot and kicked off a thrilling new series with ‘an intriguing story, faxcinatingly told’ The Philadelphia Inquirer. Now, Pickard once again ‘pushes the presumed limits of crime fiction’ Los Angeles Times as she sends her emotionally complex hero*ine into the darkest realm of human nature. Sex, violence, evil and betrayal: the shocking murder case splashed across the Florida headlines has it all, making it the perfect candidate for true crime writer Marie Lightfoot’s next bestseller. But beyond the lurid tale of a love affair gone fatally wrong, there are disturbing twists that leave Marie sensing in her gut that something doesn’t jibe. Twist number one: the killer is a man of the cloth who murders his wife in collusion with his lover. Twist number two: the minister is convicted though his lover walks free. But it is the final blow that truly gives Marie pause: for the first time in her illustrious career, she fails to win the killer’s confidence during a jailhouse interview. When a dark revelation emerges, Marie is forced to confront her own shortcomings as she learns a bone chilling lesson: to err is human, but to underestimate the criminal mind could be deadly.

The Truth Hurts

With ‘The Whole Truth’ and ‘Ring of Truth,’ award winning author Nancy Pickard introduced the intrepid Marie Lightfoot, a gutsy and charismatic true crime writer, and kicked oV a sensational new series that sealed her reputation as one of today’s top practitioners of ‘chilling, fast paced, and original’ thrillers ‘Detroit Free Press’. Now Marie Lightfoot faces an unusually challenging case because this time it’s personal painfully so, as it concerns the central mystery of her life: her parents’ disappearance. ‘My dear Marie, Do you give any thought to life after death? They say that when dead people hover around the living, it is because they are stuck at the place where they died. They can’t move on. I hope for your sake that doesn’t happen to you, Marie, because I don’t think you’ll want to linger in the place where I will kill you…
.’ When the first E mail arrives it seems like a joke: A man writes that he loves Marie’s work and wants her to collaborate with him by becoming his victim and writing a book about her own murder right up to the moment of her death. If she doesn’t cooperate, he promises, he will hurt someone close to her. Marie is merely unsettled until more threatening E mails arrive and the young children of her lover, State Attorney Franklin DeWeese, become targets of vicious pranks. Until the police can apprehend her tormentor, Marie has no choice but to play along, following her ‘co author’s’ instructions to write her life story and return to her birthplace, a small town in Alabama. There Marie seeks out a group of the town’s most prominent citizens. Forty years ago, they worked clandestinely in the civil rights movement alongside herparents, who disappeared during the explosive summer of 1963. Trying to untangle the divided loyalties, secrets, lies, and misunderstandings that have obscured the truth about her parents, Marie races to unravel the secrets of the past and outwit a killer before she is forced to write her final page. Filled with rich characterizations, steadily escalating suspense, and a rare depth of emotion, ‘The Truth Hurts‘ draws readers into a mystery that spans the present day and the tense, heartbreaking early days of America’s civil rights movement. In a novel as complex and captivating as her inimitable hero*ine, Nancy Pickard keeps readers guessing until the Wnal page is turned.

The Virgin of Small Plains

Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen year old Rex Shellenberger scours his father’s pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl, her skin as white as the snow around her. Even dead, she is the most beautiful girl he s ever seen. It is a moment that will forever change his life and the lives of everyone around him. The mysterious dead girl The Virgin of Small Plains inspires local reverence. In the two decades following her death, strange miracles visit those who faithfully tend to her grave; some even believe that her spirit can cure deadly illnesses. Slowly, word of the legend spreads. But what really happened in that snow covered field? Why did young Mitch Newquist disappear the day after the Virgin s body was found, leaving behind his distraught girlfriend, Abby Reynolds? Why do the town s three most powerful men Dr. Quentin Reynolds, former sheriff Nathan Shellenberger, and Judge, Tom Newquist all seem to be hiding the details of that night? Seventeen years later, when Mitch suddenly returns to Small Plains, simmering tensions come to a head, ghosts that had long slumbered whisper anew, and the secrets that some wish would stay buried rise again from the grave of the Virgin. Abby never having resolved her feelings for Mitch is now determined to uncover exactly what happened so many years ago to tear their lives apart. Three families and three friends, their worlds inexorably altered in the course of one night, must confront the ever unfolding consequences in award winning author Nancy Pickard s remarkable novel of suspense. Wonderfully written and utterly absorbing, The Virgin of Small Plains is about the loss of faith, trust, and innocence…
and the possibility of redemption. From the Hardcover edition.

The Scent of Rain and Lightning

One beautiful summer afternoon, from her bedroom window on the second floor, Jody Linder is unnerved to see her three uncles parking their pickups in front of her parents house or what she calls her parents house, even though Jay and Laurie Jo Linder have been gone almost all of Jody’s life. What is this fearsome thing I see? the young high school English teacher whispers, mimicking Shakespeare. Polished boots, pressed jeans, fresh white shirts, Stetsons her uncles suspiciously clean visiting clothes are a disturbing sign. The three bring shocking news: The man convicted of murdering Jody s father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty six years since that stormy night when, as baby Jody lay asleep in her crib, her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed dead. Neither the protective embrace of Jody s uncles nor the safe haven of her grandparents ranch could erase the pain caused by Billy Crosby on that catastrophic night. Now Billy Crosby has been granted a new trial, thanks in large part to the efforts of his son, Collin, a lawyer who has spent most of his life trying to prove his father s innocence. As Jody lives only a few doors down from the Crosbys, she knows that sooner or later she ll come face to face with the man who she believes destroyed her family. What she doesn t expect are the heated exchanges with Collin. Having grown up practically side by side in this very small town, Jody and Collin have had a long history of carefully avoiding each other s eyes. Now Jody discovers that underneath their antagonism is a shared sense of loss that no one else could possibly understand. As she revisits old wounds, startling revelations compel her to uncover the dangerous truth about her family s tragic past. Engrossing, lyrical, and suspenseful, The Scent of Rain and Lightning captures the essence of small town America its heartfelt intimacy and its darkest secrets where through struggle and hardship people still dare to hope for a better future. For Jody Linder, maybe even love.

Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path (With: Lynn Lott)

The blank page, the impossible deadline, the exhilarating rush of inspiration, the perils of publication: There is no profession more maddening or more rewarding than being a writer. Yet surprisingly, all writers, no matter how famous or successful, pass through the same sequence of stages in the course of their careers. It was this remarkable insight that inspired veteran writers Nancy Pickard and Lynn Lott to pool their talents and write a book. The result is one of the wisest and liveliest guides to the literary life ever written a volume of astonishing revelation, warm reassurance, brilliant encouragement, and welcome humor. Drawing on their own experience as writers of fiction and nonfiction as well as the insights of scores of colleagues, Pickard and Lott follow the trajectory of the writer’s life from the first time that inner voice whispers I want to write to the burst of accomplishment that comes when the book is finished, the vision expressed, the dream made real. No matter what you write or how much recognition you ve received, if you re serious about writing as a profession, you are bound to pass through the seven steps on the writer s path. Pickard and Lott call these steps Unhappiness, Wanting, Commitment, Wavering, Letting Go, Immersion, and Fulfillment. Are you sunk in a pit of loneliness and confusion, burdened by pressures you can neither name nor escape? Welcome to the stage of Unhappiness, what Pickard and Lott call the precreative state. Don t worry, Tolstoy and Stephen King have been there before you, and somehow they cleared the abyss of Wanting desires you can t shake, jealousies that sting like bees and climbed the ladder of Commitment. Wavering is where you hit the wall, tread water, and succumb to the dread paralysis of writer s block and the abuse of unsympathetic editors and critics. E. B. White said a writer is like a surfer waiting for the perfect wave and in the stage of Letting Go, that wave finally crests, releasing the torrent of creativity that carries you through the deeply satisfying stages of Immersion and Fulfillment. Pickard and Lott are the buddies every writer dreams of always there to light the way and lighten your mood, generous with advice and sympathy, and bold enough to give you the occasional kick in the pants. Whether you re a wannabe writer or a published literary veteran, you re bound to find this book a source of true delight, vital wisdom, and lasting inspiration.

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.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4

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 5

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 Plot Thickens (With: Janet Evanovich,Lawrence Block,Linda Fairstein,Nelson DeMille,Donald E Westlake,Mary Higgins Clark,Carol Higgins Clark,Walter Mosley,Edna Buchanan,Ann Rule)

Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today’s top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a tale that ingeniously features a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak. The result is a collection of wonderfully imaginative tales that both chill the spine and warm the heart: proceeds from The Plot Thickens will help bring the gift of reading to millions of disadvantaged Americans.

Fearless Jones (By:Walter Mosley)

Penzler Pick, June 2001: Those of us who have been waiting for Walter Mosley to return to mystery writing and there are many of us have cause to rejoice. Not only has Mosley written a mystery, he is introducing a new character who could turn out to be as popular as Easy Rawlins. Fearless Jones has a lot in common with Easy, but he also has some characteristics reminiscent of Socrates Fortlow, the ‘hero’ of Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. When the story begins, the reader is transported to the Los Angeles of the 1950s, a dangerous place and time for a black man. But Paris Minton seems to have beaten the odds. He owns a moderately successful and very satisfying business a used book store. He spends the time he’s not in the store scouring libraries for discarded books and selling them in just enough quantity to be independent and happy. Yes, he is visited on a regular basis by members of the LAPD who want him to prove to them that he did not steal the books, but that is a small price to pay for independence. Minton’s peaceful life is interrupted one day when a beautiful woman walks into his store and asks for the Reverend William Grove. In no time flat, Paris has been beaten into unconsciousness by a man following her and has been rewarded by the woman with sex. The lovely Elana Love is obviously trouble, but Paris jumps in feet first and, as a consequence, his store is burned to the ground. It is obviously time to call in Fearless Jones, a man well named. Jones is afraid of nothing, but there is a little matter to be taken care of before he can help. He’s in jail and Paris must raise bail to get him out. Once he does that, the pair embark on a wild ride through Los Angeles on behalf of Elana Love. As always, Mosley depicts the hard boiled L.A. in a powerful and distinctive way, and we can only hope that this is the first of a series. Otto Penzler

Fear Itself (By:Walter Mosley)

Paris Minton doesn’t want any trouble. He minds his used bookstore and his own business. But in 1950s Los Angeles, sometimes trouble finds him, no matter how hard he tries to avoid it. When the nephew of the wealthiest woman in L.A. is missing and wanted for murder, she has to get involved no matter if she can’t stand him. What will her church think? She hires Jefferson T. Hill, a former sheriff of Dawson, Texas, and a tough customer, to track him down and prove his innocence. When Hill goes missing too, she tricks his friend Fearless Jones and Paris Minton into picking up the case. Paris steps inside the world of the black bourgeoisie, and it turns out to be filled with deceit and corruption. It takes everything he has just to stay alive through a case filled with twists and turns and dead ends like he never imagined. Written with the voice and vision that have made Walter Mosley one of the most entertaining writers in America, FEAR ITSELF marks the return of a master at the top of his form.

Fear of the Dark (By:Walter Mosley)

Fearless Jones and Paris Minton, stars of the bestsellers Fearless Jones and Fear Itself, return in a fast paced thriller about family and revenge. For Paris Minton, a knock on his door is often the first sign of trouble. So when he finds his lowlife cousin, Ulysses S. Grant, or Useless, on the other side of his front door, Paris keeps it firmly closed. With family like Useless, who needs enemies? Yet trouble always finds an open window, and when Useless’s mother, Three Hearts, shows up to look for her son, Paris has no choice but to track down his wayward cousin. Turns out that Useless is involved in some high stakes blackmailing. Now, he and a briefcase full of money and incriminating photos are missing, and Paris is not the only one looking for him. Paris enlists the help of his invincible friend Fearless Jones, but mysterious women, desperate blackmail victims, and cheating business partners are all they encounter not to mention the dead bodies found along the way. With the sheer nerve plotting and brilliant characterizations that have made him one of the great stars of crime fiction, Fear of the Dark is masterful Mosley.

Tales of Obsession

Fourteen spine tingling stories of suspense include P. D. James’s ”The Victim,” in which a gorgeous celebrity uses her infatuated ex husband as a murder weapon, and tales by Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith, and other authors.

Malice Domestic 3

The third in a series of collections of original mystery stories in the style of Agatha Christie features the work of Dorothy Cannell, Wendy Hornsby, Joan Hess, and other contemporary authors.

Murder, They Wrote

A collection of eighteen short mysteries includes Nancy Pickard’s ‘The Potluck Supper Murders,’ Jane Dentiger’s ‘The Last of Laura Dane,’ and ‘Deeply Dead’ by Charlaine Harris.

The Night Awakens

The crowned Queen of Suspense, 1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes of passion. Now, in that same haunting tradition, she invites a star studded cast of authors to share original stories of men and women joined in love…
and driven to murder.

Sara Shankman puts a chilling new spin on payback…
Joseph Hansen slaps a rancher with a cold wake up call out on the trail…
Loren D. Estleman cuts a honeymoon short when a bride learns she’s married to the mob…
Brendan DuBois drives a brother to distractionon the road to revenge…
Sally Gunning pushes jealousy to a murderous extreme…
Nancy Pickard exposes the truth behind the headlines as a young love leads to old fashioned homicide…
and a panoply of other renouned writers spellbind us with the seductive charms of love, lust, and other lethal attractions.

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection

Culled from the best of a wide variety of sources, this eleventh annual collection of fantasy fiction features contributions by Kim Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Kushner, Jack Womack, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.

Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives

Midnight Louie is the savvy black tomcat who stars in his very own series by Carole Nelson Douglas. One tough hombre, he knows the score and always gets his man…
or rat. Louie’s hot on a new case a whole bunch in fact, in Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives. He’s pulled together stories of mystery, murder, and mayhem to bring us some of the wildest and furriest cases around, written by today’s most prominent authors. With an introduction from Lawrence Block and all new stories from such masters of the mystery as Dorothy Cannell, J.A. Jance, Nancy Pickard, and Ann Perry, as well as a reprint from Lilian Jackson Braun, Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives is a treat for mystery readers…
and animal lovers of all flavors.

Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas

‘Death Cruise’: Crime Stories on the Open Sea, edited by Lawrence Block, is a collection of murder mysteries with settings aboard cruise ships and written by several members of the International Association of Crime Writers, including Agatha Christie, Nancy Pickard, Piet Teigeler, Edward D. Hoch, Ralph McInerny, John Mortimer, and Carolyn Wheat.

Malice Domestic 10

Clue into a world of murder and mayhem from the ingenious minds of today’s most fiendishly clever mystery writers:K.K. Beck, Simon Brett, Susan Dunlap, Carolyn Hart, Melodie Johnson Howe, M.D. Lake, Martha C. Lawrence, Peter Lovesey, Margaret Maron, Sujata Massey, Katherine Hall Page, Anne Perry, Nancy Pickard and Elizabeth Daniels SquireWitness the crimes and uncover the evidence of murder at its most unusual…
and diabolical A screenwriter scorned plots a chilling revenge suitable for celluloid A four footed sleuth takes on the perplexing case of the missing Christmas goose A widow who narrowly escapes death has a surprise in store for her would be slayer A cheating quartet of married lovers plans the perfect crime And More! The Malice Domestic Series

Naked Came the Phoenix

The promise of discretion and pampering and a longer 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, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the spa’s flamboyant and ambitious owner has been murdered. As the secrets come out and the body count rises can Caroline keep herself from becoming the next victim? In the tradition of such collaborative classics as NAKED CAME THE MANATEE and THE FLOATING ADMIRAL, each chapter in this serial novel is written by one of today’s most talented mystery novelists. NEVADA BARR’s ninth and latest in her Anna Pigeon series is BLOOD LURE. J.D. ROBB is the New York Times bestselling author of the futuristic romantic suspense series featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Her most recent titles include BETRAYAL IN DEATH and JUDGMENT IN DEATH. NANCY PICKARD is the author of the popular Jenny Cain mystery series. LISA SCOTTOLINE is a New York Times bestselling author of legal thrillers, most recently THE VENDETTA DEFENSE and MOMENT OF TRUTH. Author of five New York Times bestselling novels, PERRI O’SHAUGHNESSY is really two sisters, Pamela and Mary, who collaborate on a series of legal thrillers and short stories. J.A. JANCE writes two police procedural series: twelve books featuring Detective J.P. Beaumont and nine with Sheriff Joanna Brady. FAYE KELLERMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery series. Her most recent novel is THE FORGOTTEN. MARY JANE CLARK is a producer and writer at CBS News and the author of three media thrillers, including LET ME WHISPER IN YOUR EAR. MARCIA TALLEY is the author of UNBREATHED MEMORIES and the award winning SING IT TO HER BONES. She is also the editor of Naked Came the Phoenix. ANNE PERRY, author of the acclaimed Victorian Series starring William Monk and Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, has written over thirty novels, including THE ONE THING MORE. DIANA GABALDON’s THE FIERY CROSS, fifth in the Outlander series, is due to be published late this year. VAL McDERMID has published fifteen novels and one work of non fiction and has won the Gold Dagger and the Grand Prix des Romans d’Aventures. Her most recent novel is A PLACE OF EXECUTION. LAURIE R. KING writes two crime fiction series as well as stand alone novels, most recently FOLLY.

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.

By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year

In this annual staple of the crime fiction world, Ed Gorman and Martin Greenber collect the best short crime fiction of 2009.

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