Little Treasures

By Ladies' Killing Circle

When seven award-winning women authors with crime on their minds join forces the result is seven anthologies in just over a decade. In these stories from the first anthology, The Ladies' Killing Circle, everyone has secrets and sometimes murder is the only way to keep them safe.

Mary Jane Maffini won Best Short Story Award from Crime Writers of Canada for Cotton Armour in which ultimate power is wielded from a death bed.

Cross Country Skiing turns out to be deadly in Joan Boswell's One Cold Cookie.

Audrey Jessup's The Little Treasures proves that a lonely woman with a houseful of valuables can be far too trusting

In Birdbrain, by Vicki Cameron, dumb animals turn out to be both smart and vengeful.

Linda Wiken proves the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words and all of them end in murder in There Goes the Neighbourhood.

Sue Pike's story, With Friends like These, asks the question, what's a girl to do when she believes all of her friends are gunning for her?

And, finally, in Barbara Fradkin's Secrets of the Night, the darkest stories are revealed just before the dawn.

Let the ladies slay you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ladies' Killing Circle
• Release date: Jul 19, 2011
• ISBN: 9780987708038

Ladies' Killing Circle

The Ladies’ Killing Circle, a dynamic group of six Canadian women, first joined forces as a critiquing group and then as the editorial board for a series of popular short story anthologies. They began with The Ladies’ Killing Circle (1995) and followed with Cottage Country Killers (1997), Menopause is Murder (l999), Fit to Die (2001), Bone Dance (2003), When Boomers Go Bad (2005) and ended with, Going Out with a Bang (2008). Stories from each book in the series have been finalists for Arthur Ellis Best Short Story Awards and three won the covetted first prize. The books have launched the successful solo careers of several contributors. The six killer ladies are Joan Boswell, Vicki Cameron, Barbara Fradkin, Mary Jane Maffini, Sue Pike and Linda Wiken and they all contribute to the blog, http://www.mysterymavencdn.blogspot.com

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