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Novelist, editor, and mystery extraordinaire Maxim Jakubowski has compiled another excellent set of mystery and thriller stories, this time centered on female villains and cunning consorts. The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales features work from some of the best new voices in the genre, hand-picked by Jakubowski himself.
List of contents
Contents
Introduction—Maxim Jakubowski
Hava—Lavie Tidhar
How to Craft the Perfect Story—SJI Holliday
Bliss—Joseph S. Walker
The Smoking Gunners—Ashley Lister
Haunt Me—Michael A. Gonzales
The Night Walker—Bernie Crosthwaite
Belle and Donna—Keith Brooke
Bait—Simon Bestwick
Miss Scarlet—Rose Biggin
The Dance of Love and Hunger—Robert Lopresti
Blindsided—Eric Brown
She Told Me About You—Ali Seay
The Cliff—Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
The Rise and Fall of Melody Llines, Esq.—Rhys Hughes
Kane's Alibi—Bev Vincent
What I Don't Understand Is the Music—Ana Teresa Pereira
Null and Void—Claude Lalumière
The Obsidian Knife—O’Neil De Noux
About the Editor
About the Authors
About the author
Maxim
Jakubowski is a novelist and editor. A United Kingdom native, he
opened the world-famous Murder One bookshop in London in 1988. He compiles two
acclaimed annual series for the Mammoth list, Best New Erotica and Best British
Crime. He is a recipient of the Anthony and Karel awards, a frequent TV and
radio broadcaster, crime columnist for The Guardian newspaper,
and Literary Director of London's Crime Scene Festival. He lives in
London, United Kingdom.
Summary
Novelist, editor, and mystery extraordinaire Maxim Jakubowski has compiled another excellent set of mystery and thriller stories, this time centered on female villains and cunning consorts. The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales features work from some of the best new voices in the genre, hand-picked by Jakubowski himself.
Foreword
- Maxim has sold well over a million copies of his books.
- He has won numerous awards and is widely regarded as a world class writer and editor.
- He is a columnist for TIME OUT and the GUARDIAN, and contributed to most major newspapers and magazines, and is a regular arts commentator on British TV and radio.
- He also ran London’s annual crime film and literary festival CRIME SCENE and is a consultant for several overseas film festivals.
- He has won the Anthony and Karel awards for his contributions to, respectively, crime fiction and SF & fantasy.
- He also writes a monthly book review column for lovereading.co.uk.
