title: Passports to Crime: Finest Mystery Stories from International Crime Writers
author: Janet Hutchings
description: Hutchings assembles another winning anthology (after 2004's <i>Ellery Queen Presents Great Mystery Novellas</i>) with this collection of 26 mystery stories in translation, representing 15 countries and 11 languages and chosen from a three-year-old monthly series in <i>Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine</i>. The selection includes most of the subgenresnoirs, whodunits, procedurals and thrillersand though few of the authors will be familiar to mainstream readers, the writing is uniformly excellent. Russian Boris Akunin, who is probably the best known, contributes "Table Talk, 1882," in which his series sleuth Erast Fandorin solves a baffling crime from an armchair. The other standouts include Paul Halter's "The Call of the Lorelei," an ingenious homage to John Dickson Carr's classic impossible crime tales; and Norizuki Rintaro's "An Urban Legend Puzzle," an outstanding representative of the "new traditionalism" Japanese movement that harks back to Ellery Queen and places a premium on skillful plotting. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  #  Trouble in a Tight Dress
  
  
  
  
  
  A Six Points Security Novel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lori Sjoberg
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Marine Veteran Austin Flint knows all about trouble. He fought it in
  Afghanistan, and now he battles it at home as the head of Six Points Tactical
  & Security. In his line of work, he can’t afford to be distracted by
  anything…or anyone, and that includes Nina Petrov, his cyber security expert.
  She’s got a chip on her shoulder, a smart mouth. And a body that just doesn’t
  quit. She’s also his employee, which makes her off limits, no matter how badly
  he wants her. But when her life is threatened by the Russian mafia, he’ll do
  what it takes to protect her, even if that means breaking his own code of
  honor and claiming her as his own.  
    
  Trouble is, he doesn’t know about her past, and what he doesn’t know might get
  them both killed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #  Copyright © 2017 by Lori Sjoberg
  
  
  
  
  
  Trouble in a Tight Dress: A Six Points Security Novel
  
  
  by Lori Sjoberg
  
  
  
  
  
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