“A Very Desirable Residence” first published in Winter’s Crimes 8, ed. “The Girl Who Loved Graveyards” first published in Winter’s Crimes 15, ed. “The Murder of Santa Claus” first published in Great Detectives, ed. “The Victim” first published in Winter’s Crimes 5, ed. “The Yo-Yo” written 1996 revised as “Hearing Ghote” in The Verdict of Us All, ed. This selection © 2017 by the Estate of P.D. And although we usually know the unhealthy fates of both victim and perpetrator, what of those clever few who plan and carry out the perfect crime? The ones who aren't brought down even though they're found out? And what about those who do the finding out who witness a murder or who identify the murderer but keep the information to themselves? These are some of the mysteries that we follow through those six stories as we are drawn into the thinking, the memories, the emotional machinations, the rationalizations, the dreams and desires behind murderous cause and effect. It's not always a question of 'whodunit?' Sometimes there's more mystery in the why or how. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley and The Private Patient. No one gets inside the head of the murderer-or makes it a more thrilling read-than the late, great P.

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