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Examines ways to help you write fiction for mystery and suspense.

"With a new foreword by the author In occupied France, it's not always easy to tell the difference between collaboration and resistance. In an atmosphere of betrayal and brutality, the village of St Blaize is forced to cooperate with the occupying troops, while unknown to them German scientists based in the village work on a deadly nerve gas. But events conspire to turn the villagers into heroes rather than cowards, and bring the Death's Head Battalion...

Sixteen unabridged tales of spirits to playfully darken the holidays and add chill to a winter's night.

Four stories combine urban fantasy with paranormal romance, in a collection that centers around magical tattoos and includes Karen Chance's "Skin Deep," in which a mage finds a magical ward in a dragon that appears on her skin.

After a woman, Clarisse, is murdered on a trip to visit her mother in Bordeaux, her daughter tries to uncover what happened to her with the help of a brown dog who appears to have taken in the spirit of the deceased.

On emerging from the Soviet Union, where he blew up a nuclear reactor which killed thousands of people, agent Brian Newman is incarcerated by the U.S. Army, eager to scientifically analyze this superb killing machine. He repays the insult by escaping and abducting his commanding officer.

The lives of a killer and two exceptional children are intertwined as a detective tries to catch the murderer.

Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent--lock picking--Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.

Deception-the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others -is the subject of The True Deceiver, Tove Jansson's most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate. All winter long the snow has been falling on the village. The sun rises late in the day, and once it does, there is little to do but trade tales. This year...