“The short story is alive and well in England, judging by this Crime Writers’ Association anthology assembled by Martin Edwards”

– Publishers Weekly, 2nd June 2014

The latest CWA fiction anthology, Guilty Parties, published by Severn House, is a collection which contains twenty four stories from a diverse and very accomplished range of authors. Along with leading figures in the crime genre such as Peter Lovesey, John Harvey, N.J. Cooper, Christopher Fowler and Laura Wilson, there are also a number of relative newcomers, together with authors from Iceland and New Zealand.