These stories have accumulated over the years, and have become fictions rather than memoirs, transformed by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth. The characters appear in each others' stories, giving a picture of an entire community and a beautiful landscape.

This collection of Robert Barnard's short stories takes you on a trail of murder, mystery and intrigue with some of his finest and darkest literary creations.

In Piranha to Scurfy, Ruth Rendell deals with a variety of themes, some macabre, some vengeful, some mysterious, and all precisely observed.

Meet a Greek detective who has become an expert on jealousy thanks to some hard-earned lessons from his private life. Far away, in another country, a taxi driver finds his wife?s earring in a car belonging to his boss and sets out to discover how it ended up there. High in the skies above, a woman is on board a plane heading to London, about to end her own life in the wake of her husband?s affair with her best friend. But who is the man sitting next...