title: Criminal Tendencies: Great Stories from Great Crime Writers
author: Lynne Patrick
description: Divided equally between reprints and original entries, this fine anthology showcases many of today's top British crime writers, from seasoned veterans like Peter Lovesey and Reginald Hill to newer names like Zo Sharp and Roz Southey. The creepy opening tale, Carla Banks's <i>Twilight Zone</i>like Out of Her Mind, which features a writer and a knife-wielding killer, contrasts nicely with the humorous story that soon follows, Simon Brett's Work Experience, in which burglars plot to rip off a coin dealer's cache stored above a police station. On balance, the 26 selections tend to the scary side, as shown by Ann Cleves's Games for Winter, in which a teacher's decision to try his survival skills in a remote part of Alaska has fateful consequences. In one of the book's best tales, Sophie Hannah's unsettling The Octopus Nest, a babysitter's chance look at a couple's photo album reveals a stalker. Proceeds from the volume benefit breast cancer charities in the U.K. <i>(Sept.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # FINNEGAN’S WAY: The Secret Power of Doing Things Badly
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # By Charles Kelly
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A NOTE TO THE READER:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The following story is a fable. None of it is true. Furthermore, the author’s
  credentials are minimal. Charles Kelly does not hold a Ph.D. degree in
  psychology from Yale University (1970) or a Masters’ in Business
  Administration degree from Harvard University (1973). People do not pay him
  consultant fees amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help
  them solve personal and business problems. He is merely a former reporter for
  The Arizona Republic who has published one novel, Pay Here, issued by Point
  Blank Press, and one short story, “The Eighth Deadly Sin,” in the collection
  Phoenix Noir published by Akashic Press. He has written enough unpublished
  novels and stories to fill up a basement, if he had a basement. His record of
  failure is impressive. No, stunning.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “To illustrate the po