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ISBN: 097009843X

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Cover for Thin Ice: Crime Stories by New England Writers

Contains the Edgar® nominated Best Short Story, "A Good Safe Place" by Judith Green. Contains the Agatha nominated Best Short Story, "Size Matters" by Sheila Connolly. Contains the Derringer nominated Best Flash Story, "The Book Signing," by Kathy Chencharik.

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New England's most acclaimed award-winning crime and mystery writers, along with several exciting new voices, weave twenty-seven original tales from the region's dark side. Praise for Level Best Books "...twenty-five of the most cleverly written and thought-provoking crime stories ever assembled in one collection." Brenda Scott, Manchester Examiner "Clearly the editors of this anthology have poured their energy into selecting the very best from the New England area, and they have succeeded, brilliantly." Christine Zibas, Reviewing the Evidence

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This collection of poignant and uplifting essays is the perfect book to enjoy over your morning coffee. The stories will warm your heart, raise your spirits and compel you to examine your own life. As a tie-in to her mystery book Twenty-Five Years Ago Today , novelist and award-winning journalist Stacy Juba invited her author colleagues to answer the question "What were you doing 25 years ago?" Read about school days, quirky jobs, romance, raising a family, hard times, the writing journey, and find out what makes your favorite characters tick. This 30,000-word book will help readers to discover new authors for their to-read list, and inspire them to reflect upon the small defining moments that have shaped their own lives. Publishing credits of the contributing writers include New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and Amazon bestselling. They also include recipients of the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award, Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award, Mississippi Author Award, Benjamin Franklin Award and Eppie Award, as well as nominees of the Pushcart Prize, Agatha and Shamus Awards, to name a few of the many honors. The following sections are included in the book : School Days: Literary Friends by Stacy Juba, The Red Man by Maria Savva, Rocking in the '80s by Susan Helene Gottfried, Seniors are Wimps by Matthew Dicks, Prom Night by A.W. Hartoin, Friend in Need by Alina Adams, A Life-Changing Decision by CJ Lyons, Oldest Campus Editor Looks Back by Sharon Love Cook. The Jobs That Shape Us : Lieutenant Pink Shoes by Laura DiSilverio, Training the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers by Gwen Mayo, The Biggest Job Shift Ever by Ann Littlewood, Long Live Rock by Loni Emmert, The Cost of Doing Business by Stephen D. Rogers, Life as a Singing Telegram by Monica M. Brinkman, The Pipe Bomb by Kenneth Weene, School for Sleuths by Carole Shmurak, Driven Bats by Sarah E. Glenn, Can One Beer Change Your Life? by Mike Bove. Remembering the Romance: A Special Anniversary by Steve Liskow, California Magic by Mike Angley, Drummer and Dumber by Cara Lopez Lee, Paving the Road to Conscious Living by Lillian Brummet. The Ups and Downs of Family Life : The Elephant in the Living Room by Mary Anna Evans, Baby Steps by Tracy Krauss, Finding the Right Balance by Barbara Ross, Climbing the Mountain of Single Parenthood by J. R. Lindermuth, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same by Donna Fletcher Crow, A Busy Mom's Dream by Deanna Jewel, Family Fun at the Dinner Table by Maryann Miller. Hard Times : Finding the Right Direction by Michele Drier, The Scent of Lives Changed Forever by Beth Kanell, Surviving the Killer Tsunami by Cherish D'Angelo (Cheryl Kaye Tardif), Christa's Legacy by Jaleta Clegg, Weathering the Storm by Red Tash. The Writing Journey : Unit-Lessons in Composition by Stacy Juba, Traveling Down the Writing Path by Patricia Gulley, Sticking With It by J.E. Seymour, Detecting the Humor by Marja McGraw, Never Give Up by Karen McCullough, An Early Computer by Velda Brotherton, Choosing My Destiny by Peggy Ehrhart, The Tuesdays by Bonnie Hearn Hill, Cropdusting the Way to a Series by R.P. Dahlke. Characters Have Pasts, Too : Diana's Promise by Stacy Juba, The Sandbox by Darcia Helle, An Empty Nest by Suzanne Young, Misfortune's Daughter by Mary Deal,The White Widow by Norma Huss, The Policeman by Vicki Delany, Miranda's History by Leslie Wheeler, Meeting Sam Fullerton by Ellis Vidler, The Gas Chamber by Douglas Corleone, Storm Shadow Eyes by Caitlyn Hunter. Further Back in Time : A Long Look Back by Norma Huss, The Ghost of Mr. Stetson by Darcia Helle, Finding My Voice by Stacy Juba.

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Cover for Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon

Contains the Agatha and Anthony-nominated Best Short Story "Kept in the Dark" by Sheila Connolly, the Derringer-nominated stories "A Regular Story" by Peggy McFarland and "Double Wedding" by Mo Walsh and the Al Blanchard award-winning story "Out to Sea" by VR Barkowski. Level Best Books' tenth anthology presents thirty-one tales from New England's dark side written by the region's most acclaimed, award-winning crime and mystery authors, plus several exciting new voices. Noir and nuanced Hideous and hilarious Happy, sad, and barking mad-- Anything can happen under a Blood Moon.

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Cover for Best New England Crime Stories 2014

Stone Cold presents twenty-eight delicious crime stories from a bevy of award-winning New England mystery writers along with several exciting new voices. Drop dead funny or stone cold deadly, the inventive and sometimes twisted tales in Level Best Books' eleventh anthology leave no stone unturned-a not-so-innocent trivia game, blood-red geraniums, an army of angry skunks, spousicides, lousicides, arsonists, rum runners, hackers, witless wonders, and even a diabolically well-trained pooch.

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Cover for Best New England Crime Stories 2015

Cops, kooks, creeps and cons Wily cats and wacky grandmas Hoods, histories, and crafty whodunits Nothing is spared by a Rogue Wave Get swept up in this year's tsunami of twenty-nine never before seen crime stories from a bevy of New England's award-winning mystery writers joined by several of the region's most compelling new voices. From classic mysteries to dead celebrities--some light, some dark, some flat-out scary. some downright funny--Level Best Books twelfth annual anthology presents a veritable rogues' gallery of the best in original New England crime writing. Surf's up!

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A book that celebrates a cemetery? Like the founders of Mount Auburn Cemetery, who created America's first landscaped burial ground in 1831, Kim Nagy & John Harrison produced Dead in Good Company, the first book about "Sweet Auburn" that celebrates the Circle of Life. Dead in Good Company is a collection of essays and poems by local and celebrity authors; it also includes photographs of the migratory and resident wildlife. Mount Auburn Cemetery is one of New England's Birding Hotspots.

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Cover for Best New England Crime Stories 2016

Red Sky at morning-- Sailors take warning. Red Dawn brings new meaning to the old sailors' adage with thirty-three brand new stories from some of New England's most acclaimed mystery writers, along with several exciting new voices. Some spine-tingling, some rib tickling, from cons and capers to conundrums and classic whodunnits, Level Best Books thirteenth annual anthology presents a boatload of the best in original regional crime writing. Batten down the hatches!

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Bloodroot contains 24 stories in every sub-genre of crime fiction by some of the best known writers working today as well as new voices. Stories include a cozy featuring Amelia Earhart, an insecure bank robber, a lawyer on the verge of losing a case, a business man about to go bankrupt, a woman out for a hike in the desert, a researcher on a ship in the Aleutian Islands, a graduate student in English literature visiting England, and a man marooned in his apartment during a blizzard. In these and other stories, protagonists of all stripes are challenged to survive.

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Cover for Deadly Nightshade: Best New England Crime Stories 2022

After seven years clean a man finds himself once again in a police cell; a man commits suicide for no apparent reason; the muscle for a mobster reviews his mentor's life lessons; a longtime widow takes up a life of crime; a librarian proves formidable if occasionally oblivious; a young man escapes the nightmare of a future; a librarian outwits the police; and a killer is trapped—these and other tales of murder, deception, trickery, and rough justice fill the pages of the eagerly awaited anthology, Best New England Crime Stories 2022.

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