A Woman’s Eye

Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices hereinclude professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... tothe California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of Sharon says mum's the word. And then thereare mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers -- ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life asseen through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a summervacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death... this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both ourintellects and our hearts. "From the Paperback edition."