Includes three long elegiac stories and two short ones featuring an 'irresistible' female eccentric, the jealous relationship between a mother and daughter and the success of a sluttish Delilah in robbing a middle-aged woodcutter of both his hoarded wealth and his inner serenity.

Fifteen crime short stories: PD James, Michael Gilbert, Antonia Fraser, Peter Lovesey, Celia Fremlin, Christianna Brand, Tony Wilmot, HRF Keating, Celia Dale, Joan Aiken, Clare Dawson, Penelope Wallace, Julian Symons, Herbert Harris, Madelain Duke

Forsyth presents five brilliantly ingenious tales of murder, justice, intrigue and revenge. A miracle in war-torn Siena, a drug smuggling heist on an international flight, a brutal urban murder, an incandescent art scam and the brilliant novella 'Whispering Wind'

Beyond the drugstore and the diner of a rural town is another world - a wilderness - waiting to be explored. Deer can be stalked, pools of trout fished, grouse shot, and traplines laid for fur....