Outside, police cars were double parked on East Fifty-first Street and along Third Avenue. A spring breeze blew across the squad room. Going back to his desk, he raised the window up as far as it would go. "Have a good swing, " Parker said, and walked around the room emptying overflowing wastebaskets into a large cardboard barrel. " Carney pulled the report out of the typewriter and said, "I'm out of here for three days. Joe Carney, a burly guy with a shiny bald head, was finishing up a night duty, typing furiously. The heading on the top of the page read: Sunday, April 23, 1995. Or, if you didn't resist, when you were lucky enough to not get caught and didn't have to pay the consequences.ĭetective John Parker walked into the Seventeenth Squad's second-floor squad room, went directly over to the command log, and signed himself present for duty at 0800 hours. Or the anniversary of the time you thought about being unfaithful and resisted. Valentine's Day or your wedding anniversary. It is hoped that you will find this richly flavored cornucopia of crime rewarding enough to reread on special occasions, like St. Stories are a little more romantic than others, some are grittier than others, some are less traditional than others, but all have great pleasures to give. Can you imagine how much one person has to love another person to want to kill? That is not a manifestation of liking someone a lot. In order for a crime of passion to occur, there must be, naturally (or, from time to time, unnaturally), a passion. There's nothing wrong with the love-it's just the people who experience it, sometimes, or those who don't.
All right, let's concede that in most of these tales at least one person dies a violent death. The stories that follow are a celebration of love. Only when love, or hate, fades into indifference do those two passionate emotions no longer share a chamber of the heart. As long as one exists, the potential for the other also lives. Love and hate are too closely connected to be separated by time or circumstance.
Each author offers a vastly different perspective on love, murder and th eopposite sex in short fiction that proves all passion lasts a lifetime- however brief that life may be…Ĭontrary to popular usage, the opposite of love is not hate. Caunitz, Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, James Crumley, John Gardner, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Michael Malone, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ed McBain, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Anne Perry, Shel Silverstein, Donna TarttĪ unique and unprecedented collection of original, never-before-published short stories by the great crime writers, including Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Kellerman, Sara Paretsky, Ed McBain and Elmore Leonard.
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