Featuring never-before-published novellas by hall-of-famers Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, John Farris, Stephen King, Ed McBain, Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Perry and Donald E. Westlake, this amazing collection is destined to become the classic crime fiction anthology. In volume one, listeners are treated to the return of Block's hit man Keller; an adventure from the 87th Precinct from McBain; King's grappling with the legacy of 9/11; and gripping mysteries from Mosley, Oates, and Perry. In volume two, Westlake's hapless crook John Dortmunder stumbles through another caper gone bad, McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life (and death), Farris paints a frightening portrait of a possibly murderous portraitist, and Deaver's cop Talbot Simms gets a bead on an apparent double suicide-or is it murder?

Ed McBain’s writing career has spanned almost five decades, from his first novel The Blackboard Jungle in 1954, to the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, to his most recent novel, The Moment She Was Gone. His most recent 87th Precinct novel was Money, Money, Money. He has lived in Weston, Connecticut with his wife Dragica for the last five years.