Well-crafted gems by some of today’s wittiest and most well-known writers. - Library Journal. The quintessential cozy anthology. - Mystery Lovers Bookshop News,Clue into a world of murder and mayhem from the ingenious minds of today’s most fiendishly clever mystery writers, including Anne Perry, Nancy Pickard, K.K. Beck, Peter Lovesey, and Carolyn Hart, to name just a few. Witness the crimes and uncover the evidence of murder at its most diabolical. A woman returns to her girlhood home to dig up a decades-old secret. An old-time movie star has sinister plans for the bestselling writer who slashed her in print. A widow who narrowly escapes death has a surprise in store for her would-be slayer. The fourteen stories that make up this collection share the common theme of ordinary people getting involved in criminal doings. Malice Domestic is an annual event that salutes the traditional mystery - books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The genre is loosely defined as mysteries which contain no explicit sex or excessive gore and violence.