Tender-hearted, tough-minded (and occasionally foul-mouthed) girls take center stage in suspenseful tales that are also touching, haunting, and darkly funny. From modern cities and the middle of nowhere--even a place that never existed--come stories about female entrepreneurs, housewives, mothers, daughters, addicts, strivers, wanderers, conquerors, runaways, and women in collision. Whatever you think upon hearing the phrase Girl Trouble, this spectacularly varied e-collection of short crime fiction from Criminal Element delivers. The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble contains 14 crime stories: "Follow Us on Facebook and Twitter" by Eric Cline, "Mad Women" by Patricia Abbott, "The Wentworth Letter" by Jeff Soloway, "The Barnacle" by Hilary Davidson, "My Brother's Keeper" by Charles Drees, "The Third Echo" by Sam Wiebe, "Magda" by Cathi Stoler, "Crow's Lesson" by Robert Lopresti, "Her Haunted House" by Brendan DuBois, "Girl of Great Price" by Milo JamesFowler, "Benign" by Caroline J. Orvis, "Them Old Blues" by Ken Leonard, "Incident on the 405" by Travis Richardson, and "Birds of Paradise" by Chuck Wendig.

Includes a 2015 Derringer Award winning short story: "The Kaluki Kings of Queens" Come meet the relatives. As diverse in theme and mood as the city itself, these stories take us from from the explosive excitement of the New York City Marathon to a secret cellar in Queens; from the warmth of an immigrant culture to the moneyed New York art world; from brutality and poverty to Wall Street’s privileged thugs, the . What the families have in common is this: their lives have been changed forever by crime. Motives? The usual: jealousy and greed, rage and revenge, self-protection and politics, secrets and lies. Inside Family Matters: Murder New York Style, the twenty short stories by members of the New York/Tri-State chapter of Sisters in Crime (edited by Derringer winner Anita Page) are as diverse in theme and mood as the city's neighborhoods, offering action-packed mystery that ranges from cozy to noir. The sleuths, police officers, and investigators who grapple with crime inside these covers are richly drawn and engagingly authentic.

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A collection of extraordinary riveting and thought provoking stories from Edgar and Anthony award nominee Patricia Abbott that explore the dark side of human behavior. A daughter finds a way to save a mother who no longer knows her name. A father eases his grief through an act of kindness that few will judge kindly. A savvy realtor closes her deal in an unexpected way. Asociety of women fares little better than their forbearers. An uxorious husband finds the limits of his love. These and more stories will bring you into the deepest, darkest corridors of the heart, leaving you breathless with suspense and in awe of the incredible storytelling ability of Patricia Abbott.

Slices of life beyond the tourist's view. By turns funny, tough, and somber, the twenty-one helpings of New York attitude in Fresh Slices reveal neighborhoods both rich and poor, where old-timers desperately protect their secrets and brand-new arrivals indulge dangerous appetites. There is as much variety in the tones, settings, and approaches as in Gotham itself, and yet each of these crime stories also reflects the city's most infectious and unifying principle, that special combination of adaptability and assertiveness dished out more often than any pizza or street meat. In this, Fresh Slices’ second edition, urban short stories offer action-packed mystery that moves from cozy to noir. The sleuths, police officers and investigators who grapple with crime in these pages are richly drawn and engagingly authentic. Written by local members of the New York / Tri-State chapter of Sisters in Crime the anthology and edited by Agatha nominee Terrie Farley Moran, Fresh Slices is second in the Murder New York series and features tales from the most ethnically diverse and densely populated city in America.

This volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations explores the institutional macrofoundations of action, providing an array of insights into the constitutive and contextualizing powers of institutions, and an agenda for further exploration of these themes.