Scars Plus the Perfect Man — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Two Short Mystery Novels by the award-winning mystery writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch Scars and The Perfect Man. Scars....Rena lost everything when her husband and son died in a fiery car accident. Now she has only her daily swim at the rec center, where she hopes no one pays attention to her horrible burn scars. But someone noticed, the same someone who murders a lifeguard while Rena does her laps. Only Rena can identify the killer, but the identification is not as easy as it seems... The Perfect Man... Paige Racette has spent her entire career imagining the perfect man. She's described a different version of him over and over in her romance novels. But when Josiah Wells starts using her novels as a blueprint for the way to romance her, she finds the attention creepy, not attractive. Then Wells escalates, adding violence to his role-playing. Paige must escape the perfect man -- maybe with the help of another man, one a little more flawed, a little less perfect. A little more human. Kristine Kathryn Rusch's short mystery fiction has won the Ellery Queen Readers' Choice Award twice, and has been nominated for the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards. Her mystery novels appear under the names Kris Nelscott, Kristine Dexter, and Kris Rusch. For more information on her work, go to kristinekathrynrusch.com.