Each year, editor Ed Gorman and then together with Martin H. Greenberg cast their net far and wide, across the seas, throughout the world to catch the best-the most suspenseful, most original, intriguing, confounding, downright entertaining stories of crime and mystery. Edgar winners from the U.S., Silver Dagger winners from the U.K., and stories from elsewhere as well come together here in a bountiful crop of great stories by the best in the business.
Volume 5:
Kristine Kathryn Rusch - COWBOY GRACE
Doug Allyn - PALACE IN THE PINES
Mat Coward - OFFENDERS
Jeff Abbott - BET ON RED
Judith Cutler - DOCTORβS ORDERS
Antony Mann - ESTHER GORDON FRAMLINGHAM
John Lutz - NIGHTHAWKS
Dick Lochte - LOW TIDE
Carol Anne Davis - STARTING OVER
Catherine Dain - DREAMS OF JEANNIE
Edward D. Hoch - THE FACE OF ALI BABA
Robert S. Levinson - TAKE MY WORD FOR IT AND YOU DONβT HAVE TO ANSWER
G. Miki Hayden - THE MAIDS
Shelley Costa - BLACK HEART AND CABIN GIRL
Marion Arnott - DOLLFACE
Rhys Bowen - DOPPELGANGER
Elizabeth Foxwell - NO MANβS LAND
Marcia Talley - SAFETY FIRST
Elaine Viets - RED MEAT
Elaine Viets - SEX AND BINGO
David Edgerly Gates - ACES & EIGHTS
Jeremiah Healy - PROPORTIONATE RESPONSE
Joyce Carol Oates - THE HUNTER
Peter Robinson - THE CHERUB AFFAIR
John Vermeulen - THE CORPSE THAT LOST ITS HEAD
Chris Rippen - THE BEST
Helga Anderle - THE RIVAL
Frauke Schuster - AFRICAN CHRISTMAS
Sharyn McCrumb - THE GALLOWS NECKLACE
Brendan DuBois - ONE SHOT DIFFERENCE
Liza Cody - WOKE UP THIS MORNING
Clark Howard - THE LEPER COLONY