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New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded...

Women, so often referred to as the gentler sex - in this volume at least, this is an unfounded and unlikely description. From their minds and pens comes a series of macabre, twisted tales that are anything but gentle. But as they weave their magic, usually black, and mesh you into their narrative you just know 'sugar and spice and all things nice' are not likely to be what little girls really are made of and certainly not these femme fatales....

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

"Observez perpétuellement, observez l'inquiétude, la déconvenue, la venue de l'âge, la bêtise, vos propres abattements, mettez sur le papier cette seconde vie qui inlassablement se déroule derrière la vie officielle, mélangez ce qui fait rire et ce qui fait pleurer", conseille Virginia Woolf. C'est ce que fait admirablement Geneviève Brisac dans ce roman-mosaïque dédié aux femmes. À deux voix, l'auteure et Alice Butaud lisent neuf de ces cinquante-deux histoires.