Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in
this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery
fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers
who take you from the mean streets of V.I.
Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... to
the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved
VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf
of Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are mothers,
grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers --
ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices
reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman's eye.
From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and
what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a
summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance
and sudden death... this unique collection brings us
great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and
our hearts.