A woman contemplating suicide on Beachy Head finds a bench dedicated to the memory of herself… An art lover in Venice conducts a spree of mutilations as a response to the Surrealist Movement… At Heathrow Airport, armed police take up positions to apprehend the wrong man…

This showcase of short fiction from the Crime Writers’ Association celebrates the ‘who’ in the whodunnit, and the psyche behind the psychological profile. Husbands lead double lives, psychologists confuse perpetrators with ex-partners, neighbours reassess the people they thought they knew… It seems as if there’s one thing you can’t classify or slap an ID card on, it’s the id.

Edited by Martin Edwards
Published by Comma Press

Contributors

Carla Banks
Tonino Benacquista
Robert Barnard
Natasha Cooper
Mat Coward
Martin Edwards
Kate Ellis
Paul Freeman
Edward D Hoch
Michael Jecks
Bill Kirton
Peter Lovesey
Stuart Pawson
Christine Poulson
Zoë Sharp
Frank Tallis
Yvonne Walus