title: Killer Year: Stories to Die For...From the Hottest New Crime Writers
author: Lee Child
description: For this impressive crime anthology, bestseller Child (One Shot) has gathered 13 stories by newcomers and three by veterans. Such established writers as David Morrell, James Rollins, Gayle Lynds, Ken Bruen and Allison Brennan introduce tales by such rising stars as Marcus Sakey, Brett Battles, Robert Gregory Browne, Sean Chercover and Gregg Olsen. Some selections, like Olsen's The Crime of My Life, hit like a hard swung sap. Battles's Perfect Gentleman is more like a knife that slides in easily, then twists in the gut. Browne's Bottom Deal features a PI that would be at home in a lineup with Spade and Marlowe. Sakey's Gravity and Need lets the reader bleed out slowly, while Chercover's One Serving of Bad Luck earns a rueful smile. Not every entry is a winner, but the disturbingly good new talent showcased in this volume bodes well for the future of the genre. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  GET READY TO WITNESS EXPLOSIVE encounters and suspenseful relationships,
  brought to you by a star-studded cast of nineteen of America’s greatest crime
  writers. International bestselling author Harlan Coben, whose books have been
  hailed as “ingenious” by the _New York Times_ and “poignant and insightful” by
  the _Los Angeles Times_ , presents stories that chart the complications—always
  surprising, sometimes deadly—that arise between lovers, dear friends, even
  complete strangers coming together for a single, shocking meeting.
  
  
  
  
  
  A blue-collar city boy takes up with a wealthy suburban wife in Lee Child’s
  “Safe Enough,” an act that has dire consequences. In Laura Lippman’s “One True
  Love,” a high-end prostitute seeks a radical solution to a PR problem. “One
  Shot,” by P. J. Parrish, follows a man who returns to his childhood home to
  learn the truth about a long-ago tragedy. Ridley Pearson writes about a family
  devastated by the loss o