Murder for Love

Right on time for Valentine's Day, this anthology is as deliciously dangerous as a heart-shaped box of poisoned chocolates, and just as sweet. Authors include Mary Higgins Clark, James Crumley, John Gardner, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ed McBain, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Anne Perry, Shel Silverstein, Donna Tartt, and others.

From hearts and flowers to erotic obsession, from crimes of passion to the savage gentility of the Victorian gentry, here is love and death in infinite variety, a unique and unprecedented collection of original, never-before-published short mysteries by some of America's bestselling authors. It's the ultimate recipe for love gone wrong, sixteen acclaimed writers - eight men and eight women - offering vastly different perspectives on love, murder, and the opposite sex, in short fiction that proves all great passion lasts a lifetime...however brief that may be.

Library Journal

Penzler suggests that these tales of murder instigated by passion might suit Valentine's Day or wedding anniversaries. Whether that's true or not, these stories, all written for this collection, should appeal to most readers. Authors include Bobbie Ann Mason, Anne Perry, Ed McBain, and William Caunitz.

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the editor of The Vampire Archives and The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, which was a New York Times bestseller.