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―Fourteen Bestselling Female Mystery Writers Explore the Reality of Being a Housewife in This Hilarious Crime Anthology

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

Most people believe Jimmy Antonelli is bad to the bone... New York detective - and an old friend of the family - Bill Smith is one of the few people who has ever been willing to give Jimmy a second chance. Given his own brushes with the law, Bill has an unsurprising sympathy for the youngest Antonelli brother. But this time Jimmy has gone too far. There's a corpse of a local gangster in the cellar of Antonelli's bar and Jimmy has disappeared... But finding Jimmy is going to be a whole lot easier than proving his innocence... A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Crime Novel

Bad Blood

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Ebury Press

Lydia Chin and Bill Smith have been hired by one of the most respected figures in New York City's Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple task - deliver a family heirloom to the young grandson of the recently deceased business colleague of Grandfather Gao. Before they can deliver the heirloom, the grandson is kidnapped and two separate ransom demands are made. While the family of the kidnapped boy tries to freeze them out, Lydia and Bill must quickly learn their way around a city where the rules are different, the stakes are high, and the cost of failure is too dire to imagine. Note: this title is originally published as "Reflecting the Sky" in the US.

Blood Rites

Some crimes strike too close to home...Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative - and personal - case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD. They're holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find out what's going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody and disappears into the dark and unfamiliar streets...With his partner, Lydia Chin, Bill tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that has led him so far from home. Their search takes them to Gary's family in a small town in New Jersey, where they discover that one of Gary's classmates was murdered. Bill and Lydia delve into the crime-only to find it eerily similar to a decades-old murder-suicide...Please note: this novel is published in the US as WINTER AND NIGHT.

Blood Ties

Ebury

Trail of Blood

Bitter Feast

Contemporary

Bt Bound

Mandarin Plaid Complete and Unabridged

Sound Library

In the latest mystery from S. J. Rozan, Bill Smith and Lydia Chin must track down a serial killer stalking women in New York's contemporary art scene. Former client Sam Tabor, just out of Greenhaven after a five-year homicide stint, comes to Bill Smith with a strange request. A colossally talented painter whose parole was orchestrated by art world movers and shakers, Sam's convinced that since he's been out he's killed two women. He doesn't remember the killings but he wants Smith, one of the few people he trusts, to investigate and prove him either innocent or guilty. NYPD detective Angela Grimaldi thinks Sam's "a weirdo." Smith has no argument with that: diagnosed with a number of mental disorders over the years, Sam self-medicates with alcohol, loses focus (except when he's painting), and has few friends. But Smith doesn't think that adds up to serial killer. He enlists Lydia Chin to help prove it. Smith and Chin delve into the world surrounding Sam Tabor, including his brother, two NYPD detectives, and various other artists, dealers, collectors, curators, and art connoisseurs. No answers appear. Evidence is found and lost again. And more bodies turn up. Sam Tabor might be just a crazy artist. But someone is killing people in his orbit. If not Sam, who? Why? And who will be next?

The Art of Violence (The Lydia Chin / Bill Smith Series)

Blackstone Publishing

Paper Son

Worldwide

Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island ... and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations.

Absent Friends

Thrillers & Suspense

RB Large Print

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