Books
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Anthology Contributions
Co-editor, In League with Sherlock Holmes, with Leslie S. Klinger, Pegasus (2020)
“Ten Years On” in Deadly Anniversaries, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Hanover Square Press (2020)
Co-editor, Echoes of Sherlock Holmes, with Leslie S. Klinger, Pegasus (2016)
Co-editor, In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, with Leslie S. Klinger, Pegasus (2014) ISBN: 1605986585
Co-editor, A Study in Sherlock, with Leslie Klinger, Random House & Poisoned Pen Press (2011) ISBN: 9780345529930
“Hellbender” in Down These Strange Streets, eds George R.R. Martin & Garder Dozois, (2011) Penguin.
“The Thief” in In the Shadow of the Master, ed. Michael Connelly, HarperCollins (2009) ISBN: 9780061690396
“The House” in Unusual Suspects, ed. Dana Stabenow, Ace Trade (2008) ISBN: 9780441016372
“The Fool” in The Blue Religion, ed. Michael Connelly (2008) ISBN: 0316012513
“Cat’s Paw” in Murder at the Foul Line, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press (2006) ISBN: 9780892960163
“The Salt Pond” in Wild Crimes, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet (2004) ISBN: 9780451212863
“Weaving the Dark” in Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage (2004) ISBN: 9781400033393
“Paleta Man” in Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins (2001) ISBN: 9780061097331
Chapter 13 in Naked Came the Phoenix, St. Martin’s Minotaur (2001) ISBN: 9780312251949
“Mrs. Hudson’s Case” in Crime Through Time, eds. Monfredo and Newman (1997) (Now collected in Mary Russell’s War, e-book and print.)
Nonfiction
How to Write a Mystery: a Mystery Writers of America Handbook, co-editor with Lee Child, and author of the chapter on rewriting, Scribner (2021)
Not in Kansas Anymore, TOTO, co-authored with Barbara Peters (2015), Poisoned Pen Press
Writes of Passage, ed. Hank Phillipi Ryan, Sisters in Crime (2014)
Crime & Thriller Writing: A Writers’ & Artists’ Companion, co-author with Michelle Spring (2013) ISBN: 9781472523938
My Bookstore, ed. Ronald Rice, Black Dog & Levanthal (2012) 9781579129101
Books to Die For, ed. John Connolly and Declan Burke, Atria/Emily Bestler Books (2012) 978-1451696578
Introduction, The Grand Game, Volumes 1 (2011) and 2 (2012), The Baker Street Journal ISBN: 9780979555084
Introduction to The House of the Baskervilles, Modern Library Edition (2002) ISBN: 978-0812966060
“The Past is a Foreign Country”, Writing Mysteries, ed. Sue Grafton/Jan Burke, Writer’s Digest Books (2002) ISBN 978-1582971025
Intro to Criminal Kabbalah, edited by Lawrence Raphael, Jewish Lights (2002) ISBN 978-1580231091