Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction, introduced and edited by Sara Paretsky
The voices here include  professional crime solvers who take you from the mean  streets of V.I. Warshawskiâs Chicago in a case of music and murder . . . to the  California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting . . . to the gang-held turf of Sharon McConeâs San Francisco, where an eye witness to a slaying says mumâs the word.
And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workersâordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a womanâs eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse . . . to the final story of a summer vacation  in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death . . . this unique collection brings us great  mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts.
This collection features stories from twenty-one authors, including:
Sara Paretsky âĸ Sue Grafton âĸ Marica Muller âĸ Susan Dunlap âĸ Carolyn Hart âĸ Antonia Fraser âĸ Dorothy Salisbury Davis âĸ Amanda Cross âĸ Nancy Pickard âĸ Dorothy B. Hughes âĸ Faye Kellerman âĸ Julie Smith âĸ Barbara Wilson âĸ Mary Wings âĸ and more!