Wild Crimes FROM THE PUBLISHER
From Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow comes an all-new mystery anthology featuring wild men, wilder women, and the wildest crimes imaginable...
Go where the wild things are-whether on unruly and lawless urban streets, a secluded stretch of uncivilized and barbarous woods, or in the frozen mountains of Colorado. Anything can happen to anyone-anywhere-when the nature of man turns wild.
Original stories of mystery in the wild by:
Michael Armstrong
Margaret Coel
Mike Doogan
Loren D. Estleman
Laurie R. King
Skye K. Moody
Brad Reynolds
S. J. Rozan
James Sarafin
Dana Stabenow
John Straley
FROM THE CRITICS
KLIATT - Janet Julian
Eleven new mysteries begin with Michael Armstrong's "Following the Quarters." Why would someone stuff coins into newspaper-dispensing machines at 2am? In "The Man Who Thought He Was a Deer," Margaret Coel pits one hunter against another, but with an ironic twist. Mike Doogan explores the murder of a worker at a secret government facility in "Gambling on Death." "The Bog," by Loren Estleman, holds more than one deadly secret. Laurie King finds mystery in "The Salt Pond" in New Guinea in the early 1980s, where murder and justice are the same thing. Something is killing hermits in "These Crowded Woods" by Skye Moody, and the something isn't human. Isidore Pete, born in 1921, relates old Eskimo stories to schoolchildren in "Bad-Hearted" by Brad Reynolds. A minister named Gull is gulling the gullible in "Bird of Paradise" by S.J. Rozan, but he is foiled by Jeremiah 5:27. It's a cop against bootleggers in an Arctic December in "The Quiet Cold" by James Sarafin. Editor Dana Stabenow contributes "Wreck Rights" about a dangerous curve and coincidental crashes on an Alaskan highway. The collection ends with "My Heart Went Boom" by John Straley, a story of sirens, police cars, and an elementary school production of A Midsummer-Night's Dream. This collection is recommended to mature mystery fans because of obscenities and gore. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2004, Penguin, Signet, 289p., Ages 15 to adult.
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