M.O.

Picking up the primary scent of any investigation, this anthology of wicked tales paints a chilling portrait of modus operandi—the signature that identifies any repeat offender. In this collection of villainous narratives, a coroner reveals a body’s telltale clues to his students as he unwittingly dissects his own relationship, a broken-down driver turns his roadside routine into a quite different type of pick-up, and two creative-writing tutors discuss the merits of “hard-boiled” versus “c...