Full name: Unusual Suspects: A New Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard

Author: James Grady Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Crime, Short Stories, Mystery Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781419720086 1419720082

In Unusual Suspects, America's most acclaimed crime writers, along with some authors rarely associated with the genre, contribute fifteen new stories and two rediscovered classics to this riveting anthology. James Lee Burke, author of the bestselling Dave Robicheaux mysteries, gives us a feverishly atmospheric tale of racism and moral courage on the Louisiana bayou. From the files of Jim Thompson, the godfather of American noir, comes the story of a murder with a victim so nasty we defy anyone to shed a tear far him. And Joyce Carol Oates shows us how a sudden brush with violence can turn a public servant into a public enemy. The result is a deliriously pulse-pounding collection that proves that although crime doesn't pay, it can help a good cause. All the stories in this collection of crime fiction have been donated to benefit Share Our Strength, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that combats hunger, poverty, and illiteracy. Similar books: A Treasury of Sayers Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers Everybody Pays by Andrew Vachss Eleven by Patricia Highsmith They Can Only Hang You Once by Dashiell Hammett The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell Some Days You Get the Bear by Lawrence Block Blood on the Tracks by Martin Edwards A Moment on the Edge by Elizabeth George Between Here and the Yellow Sea by Nic Pizzolatto The Under Dog by Agatha Christie Scarred for Life by Kerry Wilkinson Two-Faced by Mandasue Heller Tainted Lives by Mandasue Heller Shella by Andrew Vachss Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins Nothing That Meets the Eye by Patricia Highsmith The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith The Getaway Man by Andrew Vachss Piggyback by Tom Pitts