The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II
✍ Scribed by Ed Gorman; Martin H. Greenberg
- Book ID
- 111881563
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780786719174
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✦ Synopsis
This unique collection presents twenty-two of the year’s finest crime and mystery stories, by authors ranging from Sharan Newman and James W. Hall to Anne Perry and Jeffery Deaver, The Deadly Bride is also the only annual to feature a crime and mystery fiction yearbook. This invaluable overview includes everything the true fan needs to know, from a comprehensive list of award-winners and essays on the state of the art to obituaries and an annotated bibliography of the year’s releases.
Includes the following 22 stories, plus extras:
The Mystery in 2005 and 2006
A 2005 Yearbook of Crime and Mystery
Online Mystery Fiction in 2005 and 2006
THE CATCH—James W. Hall
THERE IS NO CRIME ON EASTER ISLAND—Nancy Pickard
BORN BAD—Jeffery Deaver
THE DEADLY BRIDE—Sharan Newman
HIGHEST, BEST USE—J. A. Jance
INTERLUDE AT DUANE’S—F. Paul Wilson
THE ABELARD SANCTION—David Morrell
LIGHTNING RIDER—Rick Mofina
DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION—Marcia Talley
LITTLE SINS—Mike MacLean
DUST UP—Wendy Hornsby
WHY’D YOU BRING ME HERE?—Stanley Cohen
MYRNA LLOYD IS MISSING—Robert S. Levinson
DOWN AND OUT IN BRENTWOOD—Neal Marks
CAIN WAS INNOCENT—Simon Brett
A TEMPORARY CROWN—Sue Pike
SANCTUARY!—Peter Tremayne
A MATTER OF HONOR—Jeremiah Healy
LOW DRAMA—Kim Harrington
JURY DUTY—Kristine Kathryn Rusch
THE LAST INTERVIEW—Craig McDonald
LOST CAUSES—Anne Perry
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