This collection includes original stories from Jeffery Deaver, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ed McBain himself, all award-winning authors who have been regular New York Times bestsellers for many years.

From a suburban shooting in Jeffery Deaver's powerfully compelling Forever to Joyce Carol Oates' darkly disturbing The Corn Maiden and Ed McBain's 87th Precinct story Merely Hate, this collection showcases some of the best crime novelists in the business writing at the top of their form.