Greatest Hits

Lawrence Block, Robert J. Randisi, Richard Gilliland, Margy Moore, John Rubinstein, Judith Smiley, Various Narrators, Gabrielle de Cuir, Maxwell Caulfield, Stephen Hoye, Rex Linn, Charles Kahlenberg, Max Allan Collins, Barbara Seranella, Lee Child, Jeff Abbott, Professor Department of Aeronautics John Harvey Winner of the Crime Writer's Association Diamond Dagger Award, James W Hall, Kevin Wignall, Paul Guyot, Marcus Pelegrimas, Jenny Siler, Edward Gorman, Christine Matthews, Others, Jeffery Deaver

Featuring standout writers of mystery and suspense like Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, James W. Hall, Jeff Abbott, Michael Collins, Max Allan Collins, and Lee Child — all of them best-selling authors, most of them winners of Edgar or Shamus awards (or both) — this anthology comes with a chamberful of surefire stories. Loaded with tension, charged with uncertainty, these taut tales bring their unsuspecting or hunted and fearful marks into the deadly sight of a hired killer's gun. The hit men, or women, meanwhile match their criminal wits with police detectives, seasoned private eyes, the resolute everyguy, or amateur sleuths to often unexpected and frequently startling ends. Every one of the stories here is a hit. Each of them craftily calibrated and written expressly for this collection, they include new work by the popular, award-winning Ed Gorman, the versatile writer-editor...

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