Dangerous Women: Original Stories from Today's Greatest Suspense Writers
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 140010145X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 286 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Laura Lippman, Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, Ian Rankin, and S. Cook, Jeffery Deaver, J. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection
"One of the best collection of short stories by some of the masters" according to Alain Zamrini. One of the best collection of short stories by some of the masters of the genre. Each story is wilder than the other & I have not found one that was not pure gold.. Overall? Trite and derivative Eleni With a few exceptions, I am disappointed in this collection of shorts. Great concept but what a bunch of lousy submissions apart from Jeffery Deaver's 'Born Bad'. The book is worth it just for this story.Did these, for the most part well known and highly regarded writers, do a quickie favor for the editor? It would appear so. The average reader will be able to guess at the ending about a paragraph into the story. Second, the "dangerous women" seem to be stuck on sadism against m. Dave Simon said Two Stars. no comment
Ed McBain's "Improvisation," a chilling story of two young actresses who commit murder to learn what it feels like, is cut-to-the-bone sharp. S.J. . In "Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)," Laura Lippman uses an original format to showcase a truly frightening woman with a most unusual collecting mania who preys on men in airports. Jance, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley and Joyce Carol Oates, embrace the short story form and produce magic. All the contributors are true to their own very familiar voices. Jeffrey Deaver's "Born Bad" is a brilliant dou