Thin Ice: Crime Stories by New England Writers

by Edith Maxwell (Contributor)

Whether it's hardboiled hilarity or gritty noir, suspense or sibling subterfuge, capers or cons, or even an especially abnormal pair of paranormal shoes, anything can happen when you venture onto Thin Ice.In this eighth annual anthology from Level Best Books, New England's most acclaimed award-winning crime and mystery writers, along with several exciting new voices, weave twenty-five original tales from the region's dark side. Includes Edith Maxwell's story, "Reduction in Force."

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 12, 2010

About the author

Edith Maxwell is an Agatha-winning mystery author who writes the Local Foods Foods Mysteries as well as the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries, featuring a Quaker midwife sleuth in 1888.

As Maddie Day, she writes the Country Store Mysteries set in southern Indiana, and the Cozy
Capers Book Group Mysteries.

Her short stories have appeared in twenty juried anthologies and magazines. She is active in Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

Edith, a fourth-generation Californian, has two grown sons and lives in an antique house north of Boston with her beau, their energizer kitten, a small organic garden, and some impressive garden statuary. She worked as a software technical writer for almost two decades but now writes fiction full time.