Now acclaimed masters and rising stars of today's crime and mystery fiction offer hard-hitting, emotionally riveting, hauntingly erotic tales of cops, private eyes, perps, and average Joes and Janes swept up in the throes of urges too primal to be legal.

Lawrence Block unveils a female schemer with a body to kill for... Joe Gores plumbs a private eye's past ravished by a blond wraith... Wendi Lee follow the daughter of a brothel owner as she avenges her father... Donald E. Westlake interrupts a sensual reverie with sudden violence... Stuart M. Kaminsky trails a parolee shadowed by hot temptation... Loren D. Estleman shows how lust can undermine an undercover cop... and twelve other exciting writers lure you into the seductively dangerous realm of... Flesh & Blood.