Contents:

• Introduction by Kathleen Halligan
• The Last Open File [Sharon McCone] by Marcia Muller
• Caribbean Clues [Selena Mead] by Patricia McGerr
• Justina by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
• The Bottle Dungeon [Jemima Shore] by Antonia Fraser
• Death in Small Doses by B.K. Stevens
• Skin Deep [V.I. Warshawski] by Sara Paretsky
• Solitary Journey by Shizuko Natsuki
• Unacceptable Levels by Ruth Rendell
• A Fine Set of Teeth [Irene Kelly] by Jan Burke
• The Roots of Death [as by Margaret E. Brown] by Margaret Maron
• The Maggody Files: Spiced Rhubarb by Joan Hess
• The Last, Best Chance by Suzanne Jones
• Accommodation Vacant by Celia Fremlin
• Sic Transit Gloria by Barbara Paul
• Fair and Square by Margaret Yorke
• Once Upon a Time [Kate Fansler] by Amanda Cross
• Secondhand Rose by Joyce Christmas
• Scars by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Man Kali Visited by Janice Law