Lawrence Block, Sharyn McCrumb, Peter Lovesey, Marcia Muller, Robert Barnard, Faye Kellerman, Joan Hess, and Nancy Pickard stand among the top-selling authors invited by Edgar-winner Anne Perry to contribute an original story to this new collection in which mystery weds astrology to startling effect. Included, too, is a never-before-published story by the internationally acclaimed Anne Perry herself. For centuries the mysteries of the zodiac have intrigued everyone from emperors to plebeians, from kings to commoners. Modern presidents and their first ladies have consulted astrologers, while masses of Americans faithfully read their horoscopes in newspapers and magazines. To some, such prognostications may bear little consequence, but in these tales, as skeptics and scoffers sadly learn, nothing zodiacal can be taken too lightly. Indeed, the simple question "What's your sign?" may prove to be a matter of life or death. From the Age of Aquarius to the House of the Rising Sun, from Capricorn to Sagittarius, the tales in this anthology explore murderous portents and deadly reckonings that lie in the astral plane and wreak havoc in the human heart.

Contents:

• The Astrologer Who Predicted His Own Murder by Peter Tremayne
• The Eye of the Beholder by Lillian Stewart Carl
• Out Like a Lion by Bill Crider
• Slaying the Serpent by Jane Lindskold
• Sea Horse by Edward Marston
• The Aquarius Mission by Brendan DuBois
• Reason to Believe by Mat Coward
• To Catch a Fish by Marcia Talley
• Sharing by Jon L. Breen
• Not in the Stars by Catherine Dain
• Keller’s Horoscope by Lawrence Block
• Star Struck by Peter Lovesey
• Boss Man by P. N. Elrod
• The Librarian by Simon Brett
• Ghosts by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Blue Scorpion by Anne Perry

Edited by: Anne Perry and Martin H. Greenberg