title: The Fine Art of Murder: A Collection of Short Stories
author: Diana Catt
description: Editor and contributor, Brenda Robertson Stewart has been a professional painter, forensic artist, editor, and author. Her short stories have been published in <i>Derby Rotten Scoundrels, Power in the Blood, Low Down and Derby</i> and she has coedited <i>Racing Can Be Murder, Bedlam at the Brickyard,</i> and <i>Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks</i>. Brenda and Diana are both members of the Speed City Sisters in Crime.
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  [**_Also by Faye Kellerman_**](../Text/Contents.xhtml#also-by-the-author)
  
   _Hangman_
  
   _Blindman’s Bluff_
  
   _The Mercedes Coffin_
  
   _The Burnt House_
  
   _The Ritual Bath_
  
   _Sacred and Profane_
  
   _The Quality of Mercy_
  
   _Milk and Honey_
  
   _Day of Atonement_
  
   _False Prophet_
  
   _Grievous Sin_
  
   _Sanctuary_
  
   _Justice_
  
   _Prayers for the Dead_
  
   _Serpent’s Tooth_
  
   _Moon Music_
  
   _Jupiter’s Bones_
  
   _Stalker_
  
   _The Forgotten_
  
   _Stone Kiss_
  
   _Street Dreams_
  
   _Straight into Darkness_
  
   _The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights: A Book of Short Stories_
  
  With Jonathan Kellerman
  
   _Double Homicide_
  
   _Capital Crimes_
  
  With Aliza Kellerman
  
   _Prism_
  
    
  
   _For Jonathan_
  
   _For the Three Musketeers — Jess, Rachel, and Ilana_
  
   _And for my D’Artagnan — Aliza Celeste_
  
    
    
  
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