This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.
Crip and Henrietta aren't your typical California private eyes. For one thing, Crip's real name is Tom Bateman. His sometime sidekick with body piercings and spiked green hair, Henrietta, calls him "Crip" because he rides a wheelchair. When she isn't...
A shape bends over a drink at the end of the bar in Big Emma's on Oakland's Jack London Square, looking like a bundle of black clothes someone has left on the barstool. Full red lips that match brightly dyed hair provide the only color, as if an arti...
Jim Wolf attends a book reading, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut. As he searches for a safe place to stand he senses someone is watching him. She is young, looking like a teenager, but probably in her mid-twenties. Short, with straight straw-colored blo...
The door opens at Big Emma's, a Victorian bar at Jack London Square in Oakland. A figure in a gabardine raincoat enters out of the dense fog. It's the Chameleon, a shape-shifting figure with many disguises but one aim: to kill PI Jim Wolf. So begins ...