Once again the nights grow colder, and murder and mayhem have broken out between the covers of this compendium of crime. Included are 22 tales of cunning and deceit from modern British mystery writers: Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Molly Brown, Liza Cody, Mat Coward, P.C. Doherty, Elizabeth Ferrars, Stephen Gallagher, Paula Gosling, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Gillian Linscott, Peter Lovesey, Anne Perry, Ellis Peters, Ian Rankin, Julian Rathbone, Derek Raymond, Ruth Rendell, Mike Ripley and Mark Timlin.