Lee Child

Collects six short stories and three novellas featuring Jack Reacher, including "Too Much Time," in which Reacher witnesses a bag-snatching while in a small town in Maine, but there is more to the simple crime and it could prove fatal.

Deep Down: Summoned by Military Intelligence to Washington, DC, Reacher is sent undercover. The assignment that awaits him: The army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for US forces. But vital details about the weapon are leaking--straight from the Capitol and probably into the hands of unidentified foreign arms dealers. The prospect of any terrorist, mercenary, or dictator's militia...

An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.

From some of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries, from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers.

Lee Child selects a variety of works of American mystery writing as the best of the genre from the year 2010.

"From Wall Street and Greenwich Village to Chinatown, Harlem, and beyond, the streets and skyscrapers of Manhattan are brimming with crimes and misdemeanors. Now, best-selling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark invites you on a tour of these iconic neighborhoods in Manhattan Mayhem, an anthology of all-new stories from Mystery Writers of America, produced to commemorate its 70th anniversary." -- From dust jacket.

An anniversary can honor many things: a birth, a wedding and sometimes even a death. In Deadly Anniversaries, editors Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini present new stories from some of the best contemporary authors to honor the diamond jubilee of the Mystery Writers of America, an organization founded on the principle that {28}Crime Doesnt PayEnough.

Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...