Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers

A chilling noir collection featuring fifteen crime and mystery tales and six poems from female authors.Joyce Carol Oates, a queen-kin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!).

While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy readers who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society.This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more.With stories by: Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood (poems), Valerie Martin, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Sheila Kohler, S.A.

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McFadden, Jennifer Morales, Elizabeth McCracken, Livia Llewellyn, Lisa Lim, and Steph Cha.Praise for Cutting Edge"The indefatigable Joyce Carol Oates gathers a strong list of names .

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Emerging and established authors provide attention-grabbing short works: especially notable are Edwidge Danticat's story on the quotidian horror of domestic violence, Bernice L.

McFadden’s comic take on the appropriation of racial friendship, and Lisa Lim’