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A Woman's Eye

Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers — ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death... this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts.

Lucky Dip - Liza Cody

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Full Circle - Sue Grafton

Benny's Space - Marcia Muller

The Puppet - Dorothy Salisbury Davis

The Scar - Nancy Pickard

Murder Without a Text - Amanda Cross

Discards - Faye Kellerman

Getting to Know You - Antonio Fraser

A Match Made in Hell - Julie Smith

Theft of the Poet - Barbara Wilson

Death and Diamonds - Susan Dunlap

Kill the Man for Me - Mary Wings

The Cutting Edge - Marilyn Wallace

Looking for Thelma - Gillian Slowo

Deborah's Judgment - Margaret Maron

A Man's Home - Shelley Singer

Her Good Name - Carolyn G. Hart

Ghost Station - Carolyn Wheat

Where Are You, Monica? - Maria Antonia Oliver

Settled Score - Sara Paretsky

That Summer at Quichiquois - Dorothy B. Hughes

Genre
mysterycrimelesbian
Themes
women
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
long · 448 pages
Form
short stories

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