Crimes of passion are as old as love itself. A man, a woman, a weapon: it's the perfect for love gone wrong. And Murder for Love: Murder for Women is the perfect and only collection of love stories with a delectable devious twist: Murder. Eight works of short fiction from the very best females writer inside and out of the mystery field provide compelling listening in this distinctive collection. These witty, never-before-published stories are written by: Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Faye Kellerman, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Ann Perry and Donna Tartt.

HERBERT ERNEST BATES. He left school before the age of seventeen. After brief stints as a reporter and clerk at a warehouse, he began to establish himself as a writer. His first novel, The two Sisters, appeared in 1926; in the next fifteen years he published eight novels and more than a dozen short story collections. Among the most critically acclaimed works of his early career are his novel The Poacher (1935), his short story collections Something Short and Sweet (1937), and My Uncle Silas (1939).