Brea's Tale and Other Stories contains four short stories: "Brea's Tale" (Winner of a 2012 Derringer),the story of an ex-beauty queen with anger issues who is wrongly imprisoned; "Scritch," in which an ex-con looks up a pen pal, a story...
What goes together like tea & sympathy, rock & roll, or a skull & crossbones? Sex & crime. Nineteen members of Sisters in Crime living in the Carolinas serve up stories around the universal themes of lust, love, and longing, and the c...
Motivated by her mother's long-ago unsolved abduction, Stella Lavender has joined the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation only to be severely challenged by her first assignment: undercover drug agent. Stella works nights, buying drugs from p...
The characters in the 18 stories that comprise Restless Dreams, a collection of short stories, share a certain resemblance: tired eyes, a slow trudging step, and the distracted air of someone with lots on her mind, some of it unspeakable. But despite...
In Rock, Roll, and Ruin, twenty-seven mystery writers serve up musically-themed crime stories around situations as unique as your inky fingerprints. There's the bad-boy rock star, dumber than dirt, evading all attempts to keep him out of jail. Casino...