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Deadly Housewives
by: Nevada Barr, Sara Paretsky, Marcia Muller, Denise Mina, Nancy Pickard, Carole Nelson Douglas, Elizabeth Massie, Barbara Collins, Vicki Hendricks, S.J. Rozan

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0872083522
EAN: 9780060853273
ISBN: 0060853271
Label: Avon A
Manufacturer: Avon A
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: May 01, 2006
Publisher: Avon A
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Sales Rank: 347389
Studio: Avon A

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WISTERIA LANE HAS NOTHING ON THESE GRANDES DAMES OF MYSTERY....

In the expert hands of two of the mystery world's top storytellers, being a housewifetakes on a hole new meaning.
These two never before-published stories by Nevada Barr and Sara Paretsky, exploring the dark side of the housewife psyche, are guaranteed to delight.

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- Deadly Performance
I have listened to many audio books and I must say that this is absolutely the worst. If I can really choose, I would rate this with negative infinity stars!! I am glad that this was not my first audio book; otherwise, I would have given up on audio books altogether. There are two stories in a single disc. The first story was read at a way too fast pace. Moreover, the lady sounded half drunk! I couldn't catch most of what she read. The lady who read the second story sounded like she was trying to outdo the first in terms of speed! There were no proper pauses (e.g. at the end of a sentence), intonations were wrong, and both stories were read in a dreadful monotone that almost put me to sleep. If you ever think of trying this CD, don't do it when you are driving. It almost drove me nuts trying to keep up with the stories. There was simply no pleasure in listening to their voices. Maybe it was because the producer was ... Read More

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- Strong characters and absorbing plots with plenty of mystery paired with women's issues and concerns as a side-dish
Nevada Barr, Carole Nelson Douglas, Marcia Muller and other top names provide engrossing short stories of murder and mystery centering around the psyche of the housewife in a mystery gathering of new stories by big names. Anticipate stories which excel in strong characters and absorbing plots with plenty of mystery paired with women's issues and concerns as a side-dish.

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- Enjoy the ride!
On television the housewives are desperate, but in this page-turner collection of short stories by award-winning women mystery-suspense writers, the housewives are deadly.

Anyone who knows the mystery genre knows the authors in this anthology: Nevada Barr, Barbara Collins, Carole Nelson Douglas, Eileen Dreyer, Vicki Hendricks, Suzann Ledbetter, Elizabeth Massie, Christina Matthews, Denise Mina, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, S. J. Rozan, and Julie Smith.

Resist any temptation to ignore the introduction and head straight for the stories because the introduction sets the tone for the rest of the housewives you'll meet in the pages that follow.

Some of the housewives are bored, others are disgruntled, but all discover nasty ways to respond to what irritates them. I tried to choose a favorite tale, but couldn't. I recommend you read them all, just not necessarily in ... Read More

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- strong estrogen driven anthology
The Introduction sets the tone for this strong anthology. DEADLY HOUSEWIVES opens with letters asking for sage advice on spousal removal including a request from a woman who apparently killed her husband with his bowling trophy, but nonchalantly wants to know how to remove the bloodstains. Fourteen tales later complete what is one of the better compilations in several years. The authors are a female who's who going deep into what makes motivates the gentler sex to turn criminal and is some cases lethal. Each tale is well written as some of the best women mystery-suspense authors on the market provide their insight filled with twists. After reading this superb often amusing short story collection, the secret is out as to who dominates relationships especially family for estrogen rules.

Harriet Klausner

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