A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.
In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready for a lethal mix of meddling mothers-in-law, creepy neighbors, cheating husbands, fickle female friends, careers left behind, out-of-control kids, steamy sex, and much, much more in this thrilling collection of stories. Go behind the lace curtains and PTA smiles to explore the often mind-numbing reality of being a housewife. You’ll laugh, you’ll scream, you’ll recognize yourself or your best friend in each of these deadly situations.
Join Nevada Barr, Barbara Collins, Carole Nelson Douglas, Eileen Dreyer, Vicki Hendricks, Suzann Ledbetter, Elisabeth Massie, Christine Matthews, Denise Mina, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, S. J. Rozan, and Julie Smith on a riotous ride through the dark but often hilarious corners of the housewife psyche.

Deadly Housewives: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Nevada BARR

SARA PARETSKY

Denise, Mina

Marcia Muller

S.J. Rozan

Nancy Pickard

Carole Nelson Douglas

Elizabeth Massie

Barbara Collins

Vicki Hendricks

United States

William Morrow Paperbacks

Joanna Stark thought she had finally left her troubled past behind: After the death of her husband, she quit the San Francisco art security firm where she was a partner and retreated to the small California wine country town of Sonoma.  But unexpectedly, in one rainy week before Thanksgiving, her carefully constructed world collapses. A Frans Hals painting, The Cavalier in White, is stolen from the M.H. de Young Museum, and the strange circumstances surrounding its disappearance prompt her former business partner to ask her to return to the city and investigate the theft. Joanna knows she must go back—as much for her own protection as for the sake of the museum.  Her investigation takes her from the hushed corridors of the de Young to a seedy waterfront tavern; from a Seacliff mansion to a vandalized shack on the shores of the Bay; to galleries, museum openings—and the scene of a murder.  By the time she confronts the killer, the careful order of her life is nearly destroyed and she finds that the past is not only inescapable, but also more complex and frightening than she had previously imagined.

Cavalier In White

Worldwide Library

There Hangs The Knife

Dark Star

The third entry in the "Joanna Stark" series.

CLEAN COPY WITH NO WRITING OR MARKS ON COVERS OR PAGES.

There Hangs the Knife

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Sharon McCone has come home to her warm, troubled family, to San Diego and a convention of private detectives in a posh seaside hotel. For Sharon it's a chance to catch up with old friends--all except for the one who fell four stories from one of the hotel spires. Now, Sharon is determined to find out why her friend died. Martin's Press.

Double

Bill Pronzini

MYSTERIOUS PRESS

The Shape of Dread : A Sharon McCone Mystery

Women's Press

The latest Sharon McCone mystery, in which she re-investigates the case of a woman who was convicted of murder in 1956, and who is released still protesting her innocence. McCone finds herself the target of someone who does not want the case reopened.

Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes : A Sharon McCone Mystery

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WOMEN\'S PRESS LTD,THE

While investigating her lover's disappearance, San Francisco private investigator Sharon McCone stumbles upon some unpleasant truths. By the author of Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

Wolf in the Shadows

The Women"s Press

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