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Dangerous Women: Original Stories from Today's Greatest Suspense Writers
Written by Lorenzo Carcaterra, Elmore Leonard, Andrew Klavan and
Narrated by Ellen Archer, Patrick Lawlor, Michael Prichard and
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In "Third Party," Jay McInerney takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night with a party girl built for speed and sin..."Rendezvous," Nelson DeMille's first short story in twenty-five years, plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the bloodiest scourge of this man's army is no man at all...back in the U.S.A. of "Louly and Pretty Boy," Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than she likes knocking off filling stations...and Michael Connelly's colorful and ironic "Cielo Azul" shows how a nameless woman left dead on a Los Angeles hillside can be the most lethal prey of all. These and a bevy of other very bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Lorenzo Carcaterra, Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver, J. A. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Laura Lippman, Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, Ian Rankin, and S. J. Rozan in stories as irresistible as the antiheroines that blaze through their pages.
"I'm not usually given to superlatives, but DANGEROUS WOMEN may be the best, most varied, and colorful mystery anthology of all time."
-Janet Evanovich
"Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology."
-Robert B. Parker
"Wow, what memorable dames! What terrific short stories! DANGEROUS WOMEN is a winning collection."
-Susan Isaacs
"I'm not usually given to superlatives, but DANGEROUS WOMEN may be the best, most varied, and colorful mystery anthology of all time."
-Janet Evanovich
"Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology."
-Robert B. Parker
"Wow, what memorable dames! What terrific short stories! DANGEROUS WOMEN is a winning collection."
-Susan Isaacs
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Reviews for Dangerous Women
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Here's the concept. Ask seventeen well- known authors to submit original works about "dangerous women" and see what happens. They are all good sized stories and are easy to read. Few are Mind-blowing enough to make your head spin. A worthwhile collection nonetheless.
My two favorites in the collection are Rendezvous by Nelson DeMille and Louly and Pretty Boy by Elmore Leonard. DeMille is a new name to me. But, apparently, he has a large body of work. Rendezvous is a Vietnam war era story about a lost patrol under fire from a woman sniper. It is one terrific war story and one I just couldn't put down. Interestingly, DeMille himself fought in Vietnam so the story is based on real life research. Elmore Leonard tells a Bonnie and Clyde era tale about a young teenage girl who falls for Pretty Boy Floyd. Louly and Floyd are two characters out of Leonatd's The Hot Kid as is Lawman Carl, the subject of The Hot Kid.
Improvisation By Ed McBain is a story about pickup lines in bars and talk willowy blondes who suggest killing someone as a way to pass the time. Cielo Azul By Michael Connelly is another standout. It features Connelly's a Detective Harry Bosch and an unsolved murder that continues to haunt him. Other selections in this book include Give me your heart by Joyce Carol Oates, Karma by Walter Mosley, Dear Penthouse forum (a first draft) by Laura Lippman, What she offered by Thomas H. Cook, Her lord and master by Andrew Klavan, Mr. Gray's folly By John Connell, and a thousand miles from nowhere By Lorenzo Carcaterra.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As usual in collections of short stories, the quality varied. Some were perfectly chilling, some creepy, some clever, and a few not to my taste. My favourite was Soft Spot by Ian Rankin followed closely by stories by Ed McBain, Joyce Carol Oates and Nelson Demille. The book rating is an average of the ratings given to each story.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This anthology of short stories by 17 masters of mysteries noir and thrillers will keep you riveted.These Dangerous Women use everything brains, beauty, sex appeal and charm to achieve their goals. They are motivated by revenge, greed.money, justice and sometimes pure evil.