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Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.

Trapped in an abusive marriage, Faith Nolan finds the courage to defy her husband to help others.

Chet has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as trusted companion and partner to P.I.

When Helen Bradley arrives at a coastal village to complete a regional travel guide, she learns that the woman who started the project was killed in an accident which may have been staged to cover

Frieda Klein is a brilliant psychotherapist who finds herself hunting down a kidnapper.

Psychotherapist Frieda Klein is called upon by DCI Karlsson to help solve a grisly murder in which the prime suspect is afflicted with a strange mental disorder.

Much to the amzazement of her doctors, Faith Partker awakens from her life-threatening coma, but with no memory of her past.

As the murders pile up in Crozet, Virgina, it seems the ones who can shiff out the clues best are a cat and a dog.

After a shocking archaeological find at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home sparks controversy, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen goes hunting for the truth. Her friends Mrs.

In a classic Bernie Rhodenbarr thriller, the buglar-turned-bookseller plots to steal the lost manuscript of a Kipling poem, but an unexpected twist leaves the police hot on his trail.

Bernie Rhodenbarr and his dog-grooming partner in crime, Carolyn, are planning the perfect crime.

Bernie's passion for Humphrey Bogart movies leads him to a beautiful damsel in distress, a dangerous international conspiracy, and more than a few incriminating bodies.

A picture-perfect Tenessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing.

A single crimson rose and a plane ticket to Stockholm neatly mailed in a mysterious package sound like the formula for a romantic weekend.

The smartest and sexiest sleuth around is Vicky Bliss. In the sunsplashed streets or moonlit courtyards of Rome, Vicky is out to uncover a true geius and master art thief.