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Greatest Hits: Original Stories of Hitmen, and Hired Guns, and Private Eyes Edited by Robert J. Randisi
Featuring standout writers of mystery and suspense like Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, James W. Hall, Jeff Abbott, Michael Collins, Max Allan Collins, and Lee Child—all
of them best-selling authors, most of them winners of Edgar or Shamus awards (or both)—this anthology comes with a chamberful of surefire stories. Loaded with tension, charged with uncertainty, these
taut tales bring their unsuspecting or hunted and fearful marks into the deadly sight of a hired killer's gun. The hit men, or women, meanwhile match their criminal wits with police detectives, seasoned
private eyes, the resolute everyguy, or amateur sleuths to often unexpected and frequently startling ends.
Every one of the stories here is a hit. Each of them craftily calibrated and written
expressly for this collection, they include new work by the popular, award-winning Ed Gorman, the versatile writer-editor Robert J. Randisi, and the recipient of the first-ever Sherlock Award for best
detective, John Harvey. With cunning invention hit-lit authors Christine Matthews, Barbara Serenella, Marcus Pelegrimas, and Kevin Wignall further ratchet up the suspense to keep Greatest Hits true to its name, and aim.
Jeffery Deaver's story is called "Chapter and Verse."
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