Death Do Us Part

by Mystery Writers of America, Harlan Coben, Lee Child

Detective and mystery storiesAmerican Detective and mystery storiesInterpersonal relationsFictionFICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

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About this book

From the Civil War–era south to 1950s New York to the present day's gritty cities and seemingly innocuous suburbs, the eighteen stories in this anthology edited by the award-winning mystery writer Harlan Coben chart the complications-always surprising, sometimes deadly-that arise between lovers, dear friends, and even complete strangers coming together for a single, shocking encounter. In Lee Child's "***Safe Enough***," a blue-collar city boy takes up with a wealthy suburban wife, with dire consequences. In Harlan Coben's "***Entrapped***," a woman's husband disappears and is replaced by a handsome impostor. In Laura Lippman's "***One True Love***," a high-end prostitute seeks a radical solution to a public relations problem. And in P. J. Parrish's "***One Shot***," a man returns to his childhood home to learn the truth about a long-ago tragedy. Other contributors of original stories include Ridley Pearson, R. L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

Themes & subjects

Detective and mystery storiesAmerican Detective and mystery storiesInterpersonal relationsFictionFICTION / Mystery & Detective / GeneralFICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)

About the authors

Mystery Writers of America

1945

The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is a professional organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1945 by <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1080559A/" target="_blank">Clayton Rawson</a>, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1197683A" target="_blank">Anthony Boucher</a>, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL406798A" target="_blank">Lawrence Treat</a>, and <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2180760A/" target="_blank">Brett Halliday</a>. It presents the **Edgar Award**, a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe, to mystery or crime writers every year. It presents the **Raven Award** to non-writers who contribute to…

Harlan Coben

4 January 1962

Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries with seventy-five million books in print worldwide. His books have earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many have been developed into Netflix Original Drama series, including his adaptations of ***The Stranger***, ***The Innocent***, ***Gone for Good*** and ***The Woods***.

Lee Child

1954

Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. He was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down…