Criminal Tendencies: Great Stories from Great Crime Writers

by Mark Billingham

A collection of short crime fiction by well known crime writers. Proceeds benefit Breast Cancer Research This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955707854
• ISBN13: 9780955707858
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Creme de La Crime
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Juicy crime-tales

Criminal Tendencies Crime-writing is a bit like a melon - the title description isn't always a good indication of what you'll find inside. Then you cut it open - never sure whether it'll be juicy and delicious or disappointing and bitter. The tales in this collection of twenty-six crime short stories are all juicy - some less than others, but none disappoint. Starting with Out of Her Mind by Carla Banks - the story of a writer who writes obsessively, until the inevitable end which writes itself - the reader gets sucked in right away and discovers a fascinating range of tales (from `cozies' to slightly more gory stories, but, never excessively so). Petty thieves, robbers, murderers as well as cops and private detectives, even a professional female bodyguard - are all present in a well-woven web of crime and, often, punishment. [...]