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by: Nevada Barr, Sara Paretsky, Marcia Muller, Denise Mina, Nancy Pickard, Carole Nelson Douglas, Elizabeth Massie, Barbara Collins, Vicki Hendricks, S.J. Rozan  List Price: $13.95 Price: $3.95 You Save: $10.00 (72%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0872083522 EAN: 9780060853273 ISBN: 0060853271 Label: Avon A Manufacturer: Avon A Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: May 01, 2006 Publisher: Avon A Release Date: April 11, 2006 Studio: Avon A Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: WISTERIA LANE HAS NOTHING ON THESE GRANDES DAMES OF MYSTERY.... In the expert hands of two of the mystery world's top storytellers, being a housewifetakes on a hole new meaning. These two never before-published stories by Nevada Barr and Sara Paretsky, exploring the dark side of the housewife psyche, are guaranteed to delight. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Deadly PerformanceI have listened to many audio books and I must say that this is absolutely the worst. If I can really choose, I would rate this with negative infinity stars!! I am glad that this was not my first audio book; otherwise, I would have given up on audio books altogether. There are two stories in a single disc. The first story was read at a way too fast pace. Moreover, the lady sounded half drunk! I couldn't catch most of what she read. The lady who read the second story sounded like she was trying to ... Read More Rating:  - Strong characters and absorbing plots with plenty of mystery paired with women's issues and concerns as a side-dishNevada Barr, Carole Nelson Douglas, Marcia Muller and other top names provide engrossing short stories of murder and mystery centering around the psyche of the housewife in a mystery gathering of new stories by big names. Anticipate stories which excel in strong characters and absorbing plots with plenty of mystery paired with women's issues and concerns as a side-dish. Rating: - Enjoy the ride!On television the housewives are desperate, but in this page-turner collection of short stories by award-winning women mystery-suspense writers, the housewives are deadly. Anyone who knows the mystery genre knows the authors in this anthology: Nevada Barr, Barbara Collins, Carole Nelson Douglas, Eileen Dreyer, Vicki Hendricks, Suzann Ledbetter, Elizabeth Massie, Christina Matthews, Denise Mina, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, S. J. Rozan, and Julie Smith. Resist ... Read More Rating: - strong estrogen driven anthologyThe Introduction sets the tone for this strong anthology. DEADLY HOUSEWIVES opens with letters asking for sage advice on spousal removal including a request from a woman who apparently killed her husband with his bowling trophy, but nonchalantly wants to know how to remove the bloodstains. Fourteen tales later complete what is one of the better compilations in several years. The authors are a female who's who going deep into what makes motivates the gentler sex to turn criminal and is some cases lethal. ... Read More Rating: - AnthologyFifteen authors band together to make one of the most deadly mystery anthologies ever! These are not unknown names either. Oh no! All fifteen are known in the mystery genre and all the tales are new, never-before-published. **** Do not skip reading the book's humorous Introduction. Just by reading it I knew this was going to be a fun book. Many women have considered killing off someone, but these housewives follow through with their thoughts. A few of these stories have unexpected twists or surprise ... Read More 
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