Michael Jecks

Stuart Pawson

Natasha Cooper

Edward D Hoch

Carla Banks

 Bill Kirton 

Peter Lovesey 

Christine Poulson 

Zoe Sharp 

Frank Tallis 

Yvonne Eve Walus 

Tonino Benacquista 

Robert Barnard 

Matt Coward 

Kate Ellis 

Paul A Freeman 

***Winner of the National Crime Short Story Prize*** Robert Barnard's contribution 'Sins of Scarlet' won the National Crime Short Story Prize. A woman contemplating suicide on Beachy Head finds a bench dedicated to the memory of herself. An art lover in Venice conducts a spree of mutilations as a response to the Surrealist Movement. At Heathrow Airport, armed police take up positions to apprehend the wrong man... The latest showcase of shorts from the CWA celebrates the ‘who’ in the whodunnit, the psyche behind the psychological profile. Husbands lead double lives, psychologists confuse perpetrators with ex-partners, neighbours reassess the people they thought they knew. It seems if there’s one thing you can’t classify or slap an ID card on, it’s the id. The collection includes stories by two recipients of the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Diamond Dagger’ lifetime achievement award (Peter Lovesey and Robert Barnard), and an American Grand Master awardee (Edward D Hoch, who has published more crime short stories than anyone else, ever!).

Crimes of Identity

I.D.

Another haunting psychological thriller from Carla Banks, as people trafficking impacts on three disparate lives with shocking consequences. It's Roisin Massey's first time in Saudi Arabia and she has a lot to learn. From behind the veil, Riyadh seems a hostile and forbidding place, for all its exotic beauty and opulence. Suddenly she's dependent on the man she married only 48 hours ago after a three-month relationship. Joe has lived in Saudi before; he knows how things operate. But Roisin is about to discover that Joe has not told her everything about his time in the Desert Kingdom -- the drug thefts from the hospital where he worked, the friend he saw beheaded in as-Sa'ah Square, the woman who fell to her death. Soon the ghosts from Joe's past come back to haunt them both -- and murder follows in their wake

Strangers

Forest of Souls

Carla Banks

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