Seventeen new stories parade the fair sex at its foulest. With a few notable exceptions, most of the A-list contributors are so intent on showing off their bad girls' nastiness that they don't do anything else. Nelson DeMille's Vietnamese sniper picks off nine members of a recon patrol before letting the tenth go free. Laura Lippman's airport pickup isn't (surprise!) the mouse she seems. Ed McBain's hapless schlep meets a pair of women who like to play murderous games. Tensions smolder among three sisters in Anne Perry's post-WWI beachfront idyll. J.A. Jance's unhappy bride schemes against her cheating husband. Elmore Leonard's small-town girl rides her relationship with Pretty Boy Floyd to tabloid glory. Other contributors from Michael Connelly to Andrew Klavan to Joyce Carol Oates are equally content to strike a haunting note instead of composing a tune. The welcome exceptions don't just embody editor Penzler's title but play with it. Thomas H. Cook's and S.J. Rozan's heroines both want a man to help them do the most horrible thing imaginable. Ian Rankin shows a censor flimflammed by a prisoner's cheating wife. Jeffery Deaver works overtime mapping the trajectory of a lonely mother's bad-seed daughter. Best of all is the densely plotted tale of a clever New York shamus's comeuppance by Walter Mosley, who evidently never heard that his contribution was supposed to be at once full-blooded in its passions and anemic in its development. Agency: Sobel Weber Associates
Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In "Third Party," Jay McInerney takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night with a party girl built for speed and sin..."Rendezvous," Nelson DeMille's first short story in twenty-five years, plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the bloodiest scourge of this man's army is no man at all...back in the U.S.A. of "Louly and Pretty Boy," Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than she likes knocking off filling stations...and Michael Connelly's colorful and ironic "Cielo Azul" shows how a nameless woman left dead on a Los Angeles hillside can be the most lethal prey of all. These and a bevy of other very bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Lorenzo Carcaterra, Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver, J. A. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Laura Lippman, Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, Ian Rankin, and S. J. Rozan in stories as irresistible as the antiheroines that blaze through their pages.
"I'm not usually given to superlatives, but DANGEROUS WOMEN may be the best, most varied, and colorful mystery anthology of all time."
-Janet Evanovich
"Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology."
-Robert B. Parker
"Wow, what memorable dames! What terrific short stories! DANGEROUS WOMEN is a winning collection."
-Susan Isaacs
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"I'm not usually given to superlatives, but DANGEROUS WOMEN may be the best, most varied, and colorful mystery anthology of all time."
-Janet Evanovich
"Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology."
-Robert B. Parker
"Wow, what memorable dames! What terrific short stories! DANGEROUS WOMEN is a winning collection."
-Susan Isaacs
Dangerous Women
Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In "Third Party," Jay McInerney takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night with a party girl built for speed and sin..."Rendezvous," Nelson DeMille's first short story in twenty-five years, plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the bloodiest scourge of this man's army is no man at all...back in the U.S.A. of "Louly and Pretty Boy," Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than she likes knocking off filling stations...and Michael Connelly's colorful and ironic "Cielo Azul" shows how a nameless woman left dead on a Los Angeles hillside can be the most lethal prey of all. These and a bevy of other very bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Lorenzo Carcaterra, Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver, J. A. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Laura Lippman, Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, Ian Rankin, and S. J. Rozan in stories as irresistible as the antiheroines that blaze through their pages.
"I'm not usually given to superlatives, but DANGEROUS WOMEN may be the best, most varied, and colorful mystery anthology of all time."
-Janet Evanovich
"Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology."
-Robert B. Parker
"Wow, what memorable dames! What terrific short stories! DANGEROUS WOMEN is a winning collection."
-Susan Isaacs
"I'm not usually given to superlatives, but DANGEROUS WOMEN may be the best, most varied, and colorful mystery anthology of all time."
-Janet Evanovich
"Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology."
-Robert B. Parker
"Wow, what memorable dames! What terrific short stories! DANGEROUS WOMEN is a winning collection."
-Susan Isaacs
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940170718771 |
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| Publisher: | Tantor Audio |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2005 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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