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Fiction.
Mystery.
Short Stories.
HTML:A brilliant collection of 26 original stories from the best women crime writers of our times, introduced and edited by Sara Paretsky
From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross??s ??The Baroness,? to the chilling ??Only A woman,? Algerian writer Amel Benaboura??s English-language debut, here are voices known and unknown at home and abroad, as familiar crime turf in America and England is expanded to Russia, Algeria, Austria, Germany, and South America.
From Ruth Rendell??s lovelorn secretary to Eleanor Taylor Bland??s Asian-African college professor, the women characters in these tales are girlfriends who collaborate to catch a thief . . . or get away with murder; P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags . . . or their bras; crime victims, homeless, women, or housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. But in each case, a master storyteller has created new, powerful fiction that plumbs the depth and bre… (meer)
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Anthology contains:
Introduction / Sara Paretsky
Parties unknown by the jury, or, The valour of my tongue / P.M. Carlson
A rock and a hard place / Nancy Pickard
Solar zits / Liza Cody
The astronomical scarf / Ruth Rendell
On the edge / Irina Muravyova
Nightfire / Eleanor Taylor Bland
Beneath the lilacs / Nevada Barr
Nothing to lose / Frances Fyfield
The surprise of his life / Elizabeth George
Only a woman / Amel Benaboura
Miles to go / Dorothy Salisbury Davis
A lesson in murder / Andrea Smith
Miss Gibson / Linda Barnes
Green murder / Susan Geason
The baroness / Amanda Cross
7.62 / Pieke Biermann
I'll get back to you / Susan Dunlap
Saturday night fever / Helga Anderle
Dreams of home / Dicey Scroggins Jackson
Hamlet's dilemma / Linda Grant
Lost dreams / Myriam Laurini
A witch and her cats / Antonia Fraser
Belladonna / Barbara Wilson
Publicity stunts / Sara Paretsky
The cracks in the sidewalk / Marcia Muller
Performance crime / Lia Matera
Uitgevers redacteuren
Auteur van flaptekst/aanprijzing
Oorspronkelijke taal
Gangbare DDC/MDS
Canonieke LCC
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Short Stories.
HTML:A brilliant collection of 26 original stories from the best women crime writers of our times, introduced and edited by Sara Paretsky
From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross??s ??The Baroness,? to the chilling ??Only A woman,? Algerian writer Amel Benaboura??s English-language debut, here are voices known and unknown at home and abroad, as familiar crime turf in America and England is expanded to Russia, Algeria, Austria, Germany, and South America.
From Ruth Rendell??s lovelorn secretary to Eleanor Taylor Bland??s Asian-African college professor, the women characters in these tales are girlfriends who collaborate to catch a thief . . . or get away with murder; P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags . . . or their bras; crime victims, homeless, women, or housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. But in each case, a master storyteller has created new, powerful fiction that plumbs the depth and bre