Sisters In Crime 4 Author:Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard When you consider that only a hundred years ago some women writers used male pseudonyms in order to be published�and that many more were silenced by fear of reprisal, the overwhelming success of the Sisters in Crime series is astonishing! Call it perfect timing: women mystery writers have found their voices and mystery lover... more »s are clamoring for more.
In these 21 tales by some of the most talented mystery authors in America - Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Sharyn McCrumb, Nancy Pickard, Linda Grant and more - you�ll meet women who get away with murder. And others who must pay the price for their misdeeds - sometimes forever. There are women who risk everything to satisfy some longing. Women whose loyalty to friends out-weighs their obligation to the law. Plus women whose thirst for revenge gets the better of them.
In �Long Gone,� Kinsey Millhone is hired to find Lucy Ackerman, a restless homebody who abandoned her husband and three whiney children, and took off for South America with half a million in stolen funds! In �Deadly Fantasies,� a young millionaire suspects her siblings want to kill her. P.I. Sharon McCone thinks the woman�s paranoid until she�s found dead - poisoned in a horrifyingly unique manner. �A Predatory Woman� stars a middle-aged child murderer released from a British prison after 25 years - whose plan for a new life is foiled by the attentions of a sleazy tabloid.« less