The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories

A World of Sexy Sleuths, Mysterious Missus, and Female VillainsFlip through tales of beautiful women, female villains, and clever consorts. Delight in crime, mystery, and suspense in story after story featuring femme fatales.

A delightful menu of villainy and seduction. Dangerous women are a steadfast tradition of crime and mystery books. Choose between stories that compare to mystery best sellers, tales that feature the smart sleuth, the daring detective, the mystery date-turned-nemesis, or the baby-faced beauty. Perfect for fans of crime novels, fiction, strong female characters, or mystery and suspense books, The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales honors its heritage with stories featuring strong women and female villains who have mastered the art of seduction.

Marvelous mysteries, hand-picked by an expert. Maxim Jakubowski, one of the top best selling authors in mystery fiction books, has scoured the genre for the best new mystery and thriller stories featuring femme fatales. In The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales, he presents the best of the best in mystery literature featuring strong women, fiction, and good for her stories.

Inside The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales, you'll find:

• Stories with strong female leads, female villains, and more
• Crime, seduction, and adventure
• A look at what happens when women are the big bad heroes

If you liked The Maidens, The Jealousy Man and Other Stories, or The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021, you'll love The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales.

Auteur

Maxim Jakubowski is a novelist and editor. A United Kingdom native, he opened the world-famous Murder One bookshop in London in 1988. He compiles two acclaimed annual series for the Mammoth list, Best New Erotica and Best British Crime. He is a recipient of the Anthony and Karel awards, a frequent TV and radio broadcaster, crime columnist for The Guardian newspaper, and Literary Director of London's Crime Scene Festival. He lives in London, United Kingdom.

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A World of Sexy Sleuths, Mysterious Missus, and Female VillainsFlip through tales of beautiful women, female villains, and clever consorts. Delight in crime, mystery, and suspense in story after story featuring femme fatales.A delightful menu of villainy and seduction. Dangerous women are a steadfast tradition of crime and mystery books. Choose between stories that compare to mystery best sellers, tales that feature the smart sleuth, the daring detective, the mystery date-turned-nemesis, or the baby-faced beauty. Perfect for fans of crime novels, fiction, strong female characters, or mystery and suspense books, The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales honors its heritage with stories featuring strong women and female villains who have mastered the art of seduction.

Marvelous mysteries, hand-picked by an expert. Maxim Jakubowski, one of the top best selling authors in mystery fiction books, has scoured the genre for the best new mystery and thriller stories featuring femme fatales. In The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales, he presents the best of the best in mystery literature featuring strong women, fiction, and good for her stories.

Inside The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales, you'll find:

• Stories with strong female leads, female villains, and more
• Crime, seduction, and adventure
• A look at what happens when women are the big bad heroes If you liked The Maidens, The Jealousy Man and Other Stories, or The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021, you'll love The Extraordinary Book of Femme Fatales. 






Contenu

Contents
Introduction?Maxim Jakubowski 

 Hava?Lavie Tidhar 
How to Craft the Perfect Story?SJI Holliday 
Bliss?Joseph S. Walker 
The Smoking Gunners?Ashley Lister 
Haunt Me?Michael A. Gonzales 
The Night Walker?Bernie Crosthwaite 
Belle and Donna?Keith Brooke 
Bait?Simon Bestwick 
Miss Scarlet?Rose Biggin 
The Dance of Love and Hunger?Robert Lopresti 
Blindsided?Eric Brown 
She Told Me About You?Ali Seay 
The Cliff?Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 
The Rise and Fall of Melody Llines, Esq.?Rhys Hughes 
Kane's Alibi?Bev Vincent 
What I Don't Understand Is the Music?Ana Teresa Pereira 
Null and Void?Claude Lalumière 
The Obsidian Knife?O'Neil De Noux 

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