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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  FAST CRIMES
  
  
  A Collection of Short Crime Stories
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By Simon Wood
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is comprised of works of fiction. All names, characters, businesses,
  organizations, places, events and incidents are the product of the author’s
  imagination or are factiously used. Any semblance to actual persons, living or
  dead, real events or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  © 2019 Simon Wood. All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  About the Author:
  
  
  
  
  
  Simon Wood is a California transplant from England. He's a former competitive
  racecar driver, a licensed pilot, an endurance cyclist and an occasional PI.
  He shares his world with his American wife, Julie. Their lives are dominated
  by a menagerie of rescue animals. He's the Anthony Award winning author of
  Accidents Waiting to Happen, Paying the Piper, Terminated, The One That Got
  Away, Deceptive Practices and the Aidy Westlake series. His latest thriller is
  Saving Grace. He also writes horror under the pen name of Simon Ja