Hot passion, cold blood. Sizzling prose.

Sex and violence. They go together like greed and blackmail, and jealousy and murder. Now acclaimed masters and rising stars of today's crime and mystery fiction offer hard-hitting, emotionally riveting, hauntingly erotic tales of cops, private eyes, perps, and average Joes and Janes swept up in the throes of urges too primal to be legal.

Lawrence Block unveils a female schemer with a body to kill for...Joe Gores plumbs a private eye's past ravished by a blond wraith...Wendi Lee follow the daughter of a brothel owner as she avenges her father...Donald E. Westlake interrupts a sensual reverie with sudden violence...Stuart M. Kaminsky trails a parolee shadowed by hot temptation...Loren D. Estleman shows how lust can undermine an undercover cop...and twelve other exciting writers lure you into the seductively dangerous realm of...Flesh & Blood

Contents:

• Sweet Little Hands by Lawrence Block
• Dirty Pool by Thomas S. Roche
• Branded by Gary Phillips
• You Don’t Know Me by Annette Meyers
• In the City of Angels by Dick Lochte
• Trophy Wife by Jeff Gelb
• Summer Fog by Joe Gores
• Candie-Gram by Michael Garrett
• Detour Drive by Terrill Lankford
• Dying for Sin by Wendi Lee
• The Girl of My Dreams by Donald E. Westlake
• Flowers for Bill O’Reilly by Max Allan Collins
• Sailing to Atlantis by Ed Gorman
• Intimate Obsession by Robert J. Randisi
• The Club of Masks by Edward D. Hoch
• Gators by Vicki Hendricks
• Scorpion’s Kiss ny Stuart M. Kaminsky
• Evil Grows by Loren D. Estleman

Edited by: Jeff Gelb and Max Allan Collins.