Dangerous Women: Original Stories from Today's Greatest Suspense Writers

Lorenzo Carcaterra · Michael Connelly · John Connolly · Thomas H. Cook · Jeffery Deaver · Nelson Demille · J. A. Jance · Andrew Klavan · Elmore Leonard · Laura Lippman · Ed McBain · Jay Mcinerney · Walter Mosley · Joyce Carol Oates · Otto Penzler · Anne Perry · Ian Rankin · S. J. Rozan

Jan 2005 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Ellen Archer, Patrick Lawlor, Michael Prichard, Alan Sklar, and Simon Vance

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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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Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, for which he won an Edgar Award.

Walter Mosley is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three critically acclaimed books, including Devil in a Blue Dress and The Wave.

Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling author of over thirty-five novels and three collections of short stories. His first book featuring Lincoln Rhyme, The Bone Collector, was made into a major motion picture starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Visit Jeffery at jefferydeaver.com.

Thomas H. Cook is the author of nineteen novels and two works of nonfiction.

A former Los Angeles Times crime reporter, Michael Connelly is the author of over twenty novels and nonfiction books, including the bestselling series of mysteries featuring dark detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch.

Ellen Archer is an acclaimed audiobook narrator and winner of the coveted Audie Award for For the Love of a Dog by Patricia B. McConnell, PhD.

Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews.

Michael Prichard has recorded well over five hundred audiobooks and was named one of SmartMoney magazine's Top Ten Golden Voices. His numerous awards and accolades include an Audie Award and several AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Audie Award finalist Alan Sklar has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks and has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned five coveted Audie Awards, and he has won fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which has named him a Golden Voice.

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, for which he won an Edgar Award. Walter Mosley is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three critically acclaimed books, including Devil in a Blue Dre...

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