Eleven award-winning masters of mystery present Murder Among Friends, a provocative collection of all-new stories that explore the bonds -- and boundaries -- of friendship. These tales of life and death, loyalty and betrayal, feature friends and neighbors -- "partners in crime" -- who are as thick as thieves. Or so it seems...

Lawrence Block offers an ex-NYPD detective's ironic reminiscences of the night he bent the law to help some "friends of a friend"...new Round Table member Susan Isaacs has Judith Singer (heroine of her novel Compromising Positions) hitting the mean streets of suburban Long Island to investigate the "suicide" of an acquaintance with an all-too-perfect life...Peter Straub's story suggests that the oldest friendships harbor the deepest secrets...Stanley Cohen delivers the chilling account of a pair of coworkers who go on a late-night shopping spree in a closed department store...Dorothy Salisbury Davis tells of life in a small town where secrets -- and grudges -- are carried to the grave...and six other imaginative tales by a diverse group of celebrated writers.