Fans of mystery, crime, fantasy, and horror will love this collection of stories by internationally acclaimed mystery writer Nancy Pickard. From a never-before-published story sure to thrill readers to eight other award-winning cautionary tales, these nine stories are linked by signs of foreboding, paths that lead to unexpected places, and the craftiness of human nature-showing that men and women, when faced with the subtle portents of disaster, may ignore warnings at their own peril.

Contents:

• Show and Tell · in
• It’s in a Cat’s Nature to Kill · ss *
• Valentine’s Night · nv Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley, 1995
• A Rock and a Hard Place · ss Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, 1996
• Sign of the Times · ss Malice Domestic 3, Nancy Pickard, Pocket, 1994
• Dust Devil · ss The Armchair Detective Win ’91
• Storm Warnings · ss Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1990
• Sex and Violence · ss Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1992
• The Dead Past · ss Mystery Scene Oct ’89
• Speak No Evil · ss For Crime Out Loud, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Niagara Falls, NY: Durkin Hayes Publishing Ltd., 1995
• It Had to Be You · nv Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge, 1997