Death Sentences: Stories of Deathly Books, Murderous Booksellers and Lethal Literature

‘What treats you have in store!’ IAN RANKIN.Sigmund Freud deals with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronts a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kingpin with a fatal weakness for rare books; deadly secrets deep in the London Library: who knew literature could be so lethal? Here are 15 short stories to die for from the world’s best crime writers.With an introduction from Ian Rankin, Death Sentences showcases brand new, original, specially commissioned stories about deadly books from Jeffrey Deaver, Andrew Taylor, Laura Lippman, C.J. Box, Anne Perry, Ken Bruen, Thomas H. Cook, Mickey Spillane & Max Adam Collins, Nelson DeMille and John Connolly.

Reviews of Death Sentences: Stories of Deathly Books, Murderous Booksellers and Lethal Literature

'One of the finest multi-author collections in a long time' Sunday Herald. 'We tend to imagine book lovers, librarians and bibliophiles of all stripes as quiet, gentle folk. In Death Sentences, however, book lovers are bludgeoned to death by their precious tomes, crushed by falling bookshelves, shoved down library stairs, or blown to death by a bomb smuggled into their private library' Irish Examiner. 'A treasure chest of bloodthirsty bibliophilia … A delightful, ingenious, specially commissioned anthology, both hair-raising and playful, packed with baffling plots, unlikely characters, literary references and bookish conundrums' Good Book Guide.