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MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block presents 23 stories, all of them on the dark side, and all of them set in the city that never sleeps.

Jeff Flanders has a perfectly good life. Until Candace Cain sashays into it, and turns it upside-down. Jeff’s got a good-looking wife; he loves her, and she loves him. He’s got a job, swinging a desk at a semi-shady finance company, signing off on usurious loans to losers; he doesn’t love it and it doesn’t love him, but it’s easy work and it pays the bills. Until a girl called Candy applies for a $1000 loan - with no job, no bank account, no security.

In Thirty, the novel pretended to be a diary. That worked fine, and the resultant narrative proved at once challenging and effortless to sustain. I enjoyed writing it, Berkley enjoyed publishing it - and they wanted something else. What they got in Threesome was a novel pretending to be a novel. The premise, as you’ll see, is that the book has been written by its three main characters, Harry and Rhoda and Priss, in the form of a lightly fictionalized chronicle of their own life as a menage a trois.

The ménage a trois in its many forms has fascinated both observers and participants throughout history. John Warren Wells provides in-depth interviews with all the participants in a manner designed to make the dynamics of these relationships readily comprehensible - but no less intriguing.

Deb Pines' fourth Chautauqua murder mystery starts with a bang - when Maureen Donahue, a filmmaker and speaker at the historic Chautauqua Institution is killed at a raucous Fourth of July concert. There's a quick arrest. But reporter and relentless snoop Mimi Goldman, even with her wedding to plan, is on the case. Her questions about a racist personal trainer, shadowy piano teacher, chatty "chime master" and others lead to more questions - and to Mimi unearthing an ugly secret that points her to the real killer.

This audio tale starts with Mimi being asked to find Jenny Van Alstine, a beautiful-but-impossible feminist artist, who has disappeared from the Chautauqua Institution, a quirky, churchy, historic, Victorian cottage-filled, lakeside summer arts community in western New York. Mimi digs in. And while writing for the tiny Chautauquan Daily and deciding whether to move in with her beau Walt, she unearths a surprising number of Jenn-emies: haters, lovers, secret-keepers - and one killer determined to stop Mimi before she stops them.

Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing beyond the windshield but a horizon-less void, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed Tales from Beyond the Pale, audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.