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From some of the hottest names in crime fiction today come original stories written expressly for this collection.

These taut tales, loaded with tension and charged with uncertainty, bring each victim-the unsuspecting, the hunted, the fearful-into the deadly sights of a hired killer's gun.

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors come these stories:

Keller's Karma by Lawrence Block, read by Stefan Rudnicki

A Trip Home by Ed Gorman, read by Gabrielle De Cuir

The Catch by James W. Hall, read by John Rubinstein

Quarry's Luck by Max Allan Collins, read by Stefan Rudnicki

The Greatest Trick of All by Lee Child, read by Stefan Rudnicki

Misdirection by Barbara Seranella, read by Gabrielle De Cuir

Snow, Snow, Snow by John Harvey, read by Maxwell Caulfield

Upon My Soul by Robert J. Randisi, read by Stephen Hoye

Karma Hits Dogma by Jeff Abbott, read by Rex Linn

Dr. Sullivan's Library by Christine Matthews, read by Judith Smiley

For Sale by Owner by Jenny Siler, read by Margy Moore

The Right Tool for the Job by Marcus Pelegrimas, read by Richard Gilliland

The Closers by Paul Guyot, read by Stefan Rudnicki

Retrospective by Kevin Wignall, read by Charles Kahlenberg

Chapter and Verse by Jeffery Deaver, read by John Rubinstein

Jeff Abbott is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of numerous mystery and suspense novels, including the Sam Capra series, Jordan Poteet series, and the White Mosley series. His novel Sam Capra novel The Last Minute won the International Thriller Writers Award. He is a three-time finalist for the Edgar Award. A native Texan, he graduated from Rice University with a degree in history and English and worked as a creative director at an advertising agency before writing full time.

James W. Hall is an American author and professor of literature and writing at Florida International University. He is the author of four books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and over a dozen novels. His Hit Lit examines twelve of the most commercially successful novels of the last century, and discusses a dozen common features they share.

Lawrence Block is the recipient of a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a New York Times bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series and dozens of short stories and articles. He has won multiple Edgar and Shamus awards, two Falcon Awards from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan, the Nero and Philip Marlowe Awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of America, and many others. Aside from being a mystery writer, he has also written a number of episodes for television, including two episodes of the ESPN series Tilt; he also cowrote the screenplay for the film My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones. Block currently lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.

Jenny Siler grew up in Missoula, Montana. For much of her life, she has traveled and worked her way around the world, starting as a prep cook in the scullery of a men's soup kitchen, through working in a fish cannery in Alaska pulling salmon roe, to being a nude sketch model at an art museum in Frankfurt. Her work, she says, has defined her and her writing.

Christine Matthews' short stories have been chosen for inclusion in many anthologies of year's best stories. She is the coauthor with Robert J. Randisi of three cozy mysteries Murder Is the Deal of the Day, The Masks of Auntie Laveau, and Same Time, Same Murder.

Barbara Seranella (1956-2007) grew up in Pacific Palisades, California. After a restless childhood that included running away from home at the age of fourteen, joining a hippie commune in the Haight, and riding with outlaw motorcycle clubs, she decided to settle down and do something normal--she became an auto mechanic, and that was the occupation she chose for her heroine when she switched from fixing cars to writing about them. She later became a member of the Orange County, Los Angeles, and San Diego chapters of Sisters in Crime and the Mystery Writers of America.

Lee Child is the author of more than twenty Jack Reacher thrillers, including several New York Times bestsellers and number-one bestsellers. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. He is a native of England and a former television director.

Marcus Pelegrimas is an American author of fiction in numerous genres, including westerns, mystery, horror, and fantasy. He is the author of the Skinners series, the Gillis Ledgers series. Writing as Marcus Galloway, he is the author of the Man from Boot Hill series and the Accomplice series, along with many standalone novels. He graduated from the University of Nebraska with a degree in criminal justice.

Rex Linn, a winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2014, is an American film and television actor best known for his role as Frank Tripp in the television series CSI: Miami. Besides numerous other television roles, he has had roles in Django Unchained, Trial by Fire, and other major films. He was born and raised in the Texas panhandle and earned a BA in radio, television, and film from Oklahoma State University.

Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime, mystery, Western, and horror fiction. He has won a Spur Award for best short Western fiction and the Anthony Award for best critical work and in 2011 received the Eye, the lifetime achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America. His award nominations include the Edgar Award, Bram Stoker Award, and numerous Anthony Awards. He has written over one hundred novels and short stories under various pen names and his stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Shamus Winners.

Richard Gilliland is a veteran television and film actor.

John Rubinstein is an actor, composer, and director who won a Tony Award for his starring role in Broadway's Children of a Lesser God. He has narrated dozens of audiobooks, earning several AudioFile Earphones Awards and being named a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2013.

Robert J. Randisi has written more than four hundred Westerns, including the long-running Gunsmith series. He is also the editor of thirty anthologies and a Writer's Digest book, Writing the Private Eye Novel. He founded the Private Eye Writers of America in 1982 and created the Shamus Award; he also cofounded Mystery Scene magazine and the American Crime Writer's League. He lives in Clarksville, Missouri.

Jeffery Deaver is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. His novels have won the Nero Wolfe Award, three Ellery Queen Readers' Awards, a British Thumping Good Read Award, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger awards from the British Crime Writers' Association. A former journalist, folksinger, and attorney, he was born outside of Chicago and has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University.

Max Allan Collins is the author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries. One of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today, he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2017. He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.

Kevin Wignall, a British writer born in Brussels, studied politics and international relations at Lancaster University. He became a full-time writer after the 2001 publication of his first book, People Die. His other novels include Who Is Conrad Hirst?, short-listed for the Edgar and Barry Awards, and Hunter's Prayer, now the basis for a major motion picture.

John Harvey, best known as a writer of crime fiction, his work translated into more than twenty languages, is also a dramatist, poet, publisher, and occasional broadcaster. The first of his Charlie Resnick novels, Lonely Hearts, was named by the Times as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the Century. The recipient of honorary doctorates from the Universities of Nottingham and Hertfordshire, Harvey was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement in 2007.

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices in 2012.

Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narration, has narrated over two hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her velvet touch as an actor's director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.

Stephen Hoye has worked as a professional actor in London and Los Angeles for more than thirty years. Trained at Boston University and the Guildhall in London, he has acted in television series and six feature films and has appeared in London's West End. His audiobook narration has won him fifteen AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Maxwell Caulfield is a film, stage, and television actor best known for his roles as Michael Carrington in the 1982 film Grease 2 and Miles Colby in the television shows The Colbys and Dynasty. His other acting credits include the films Gettysburg, The Real Blonde, and Emmerdale. He has won six AudioFile Earphones Awards.