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Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre

Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One of today’s preeminent authorities on crime fiction, Weinman asks: Where would bestselling authors like Gillian Flynn, Sue Grafton, or Tana French be without the women writers who came before them?

In Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, Weinman brings together fourteen hair-raising tales by women who—from the 1940s through the mid-1970s—took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to reveal its dark essence. Lovers of crime fiction from any era will welcome this deliciously dark tribute to a largely forgotten generation of women writers.

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“One of the most significant anthologies of crime fiction, ever . . . editor Sarah Weinman reclaims an important yet neglected arena of noir fiction. From first page to last . . . a uniformly excellent anthology with no weak links.”— Los Angeles Review of Books

“Crime connoisseur Sarah Weinman has thoughtfully selected a Whitman’s Sampler of wickedness.” – PW

“If you (like most people) are unfamiliar with the subgenre, you might be lured in by Patricia Highsmith’s and Shirley Jackson’s marquee names — but my favorite stories so far come from more obscure contributors.” — Judy Berman, Editor-in-Chief of Flavorwire

"Sarah Weinman knows everything about crime fiction, and in her amazing anthology, she introduces an array of brilliant female writers who know more than they should about the dark side of the human psyche. Each story features a woman who's "good and mad" in her own shocking way, and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives is an important and riveting read."—Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Go

“Troubled, twisted, and terrific. Where have these women been? Sarah Weinman's Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives serves up stellar short stories, forgotten gems by some of the finest authors of their era.”—Hallie Ephron, author of the bestselling There Was an Old Woman

"A short unabashed fan letter for a first rate job. My compliments to Ms. Weinman. It was like opening gifts, one story to the next, from a very young Patricia Highsmith to Shirley Jackson in her prime. A rare and worthy collection of suspense pioneers.”—New York Times bestselling author Carol O'Connell

“At last, the anthology we have been waiting for: a veritable goldmine of spellbinding, psychologically rich tales. Masterfully curated by crime fiction expert Sarah Weinman, Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives not only brings much-deserved attention to fourteen unjustly neglected, pioneering writers—it also changes the way we think about the history, and the future, of the suspense genre.”—Edgar Award-winning author Megan Abbott

"These thoughtfully selected and very readable crime stories give us an unusually revealing and subtle portrait of the curtailed real lives of women in the mid twentieth century and the fantasies that would free them."—Sheila Kohler, author of Becoming Jane Eyre

"In this book, Weinman has expertly curated near-forgotten works by some of the most gifted women crime writers of all time. These chilling, provocative stories prove just how harrowing domestic suspense can be and together provide an eye-opening perspective on the evolution of the psychological thriller. Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives delivers page after page of pure, dark pleasure."—Koethi Zan, author of The Never List

About the Author

Sarah Weinman is the news editor for Publishers Marketplace and writes the monthly “Crimewave” mystery and suspense column for the National Post. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New York Observer, Slate, and the New Yorker online, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Follow @sarahw on Twitter and visit sarahweinman.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books (August 27, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143122541
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143122548
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.5 x 7.6 x 5.1 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,159,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,402 in Mystery Anthologies (Books)
- #9,816 in Short Stories Anthologies
- #50,553 in Suspense Thrillers

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Patrick Balester

For A Good Time, pick up Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 15, 2013

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Sarah Weinman has done us all a favor by snatching from obscurity some of the finest suspense writers of the post World War II era. Some, like Shirley Jackson, I was already familiar with, but others, such as Nedra Tyre, are new discoveries.

And what discoveries they are. The stories present a wide range of female characters from every socio-economic class, with one thing in common...they're willing to cross the boundaries of acceptable behavior to get what they want. Even if that means murder.

These writers were working during a time when America was at the height of prosperity and , one assumes, domestic bliss on the home front. After all, the United States had won the war, banished the Axis powers, and was the economic engine driving a global recovery. But not all was Sugar and Spice, as Vera Caspary explains in her sad tale of family rivalry. The men in these stories often little suspect the tensions and deceit simmering below the surface, as we see in The Stranger in the Car. Many of the women in this collection are caregivers, whose financial burdens lead them to take desperate actions. These often lead to a shocking end with a surprise twist, as in A Nice Place to Stay and Mortmain.

You'll never look at that nice nurse caring for an aged loved one quite the same way after reading these stories.

If this sampling of suspense leaves you hungry for more, check out the website that Sarah has put together celebrating these top notch writers, Domestic Suspense. It's packed with more photos, books covers and biographies than a box of Cracker Jack. It'll lead you to more stories and novels by these writers. It's time to bring these women out of the attic. Sarah Weinman has unlocked the door.

Take a peek. Go ahead...I dare you.

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Gerg

Great collection of crime-noir domestic suspense short stories. You can't put it down.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 6, 2016

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Sarah Weinman is my new favorite editor based on this book alone. I'm only halfway through this book of short stories, but am hooked. She really did a great job of selecting superb crime fiction/noir stories by various authors. Most of the writing, itself, is rather good as well, particularly that of Vera Caspary.

I also enjoy the whole other world and vantage point of female authors that Weinman has opened up. My next purchase are the two Women Crime Writers volumes.

One caveat that other reviewers have made is that you have to be careful with Weinman's introductions, because one or more of them can spoil the story (suspense of progression or even outcome), but I do recommend reading her intros to these stories if for no other reason than she cites other works by the author at hand which essentially translates to further recommended reading.

I'm very pleased to have a new passion for crime fiction in the form of under-acknowledged or overlooked female authors. I'm not a big fan of "private eye" noir - in fact I don't like it all - so the sub-genre of domestic suspense-noir is more to my taste.

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Annie🌹

About time women mystery authors were better represented!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2016

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A set of short stories deftly selected and edited by the mystery ace Sarah Weinman. Although there are several female mystery writers, including the Empress-- Agatha Christie-- I feel ladies are under appreciated when people think of true Noir Fiction. Kudos to Ms. Weinman for this and other works.

Firstly the check boxes at the top of the review need to be clarified. These are murder mysteries, so there are dead people, but the crimes happen off stage, so when I state "Some Violence" the representation of this violence is minimal. Same with sexual content. I haven't finished the book but so far there isn't even any "making out".

I'm not going to mention any of the individual stories but the authors of these stories seem to represent a wide spectrum of people both known and unknown to me before I got the book. Fortunately Ms. Weinman writes excellent introductions to each story adding a bit about the story after giving a short pertinent biography of the writer.

Highly recommend this book for Noir lovers.

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lszach

The mysteries of domestic relations

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2014

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i purchased the Kindle version of this book after reading an article in the NY Times Magazine by Sarah Weinman. The theme of the anthology -- women mystery writers who tended to focus on the domestic relations side of criminality (as opposed to corruption, politics, greed, etc.) -- struck me as interesting, both historically and literarily. The writing is of consistently high quality, though some of the stories work better as mysteries than others. The themes of the stories are timeless, but the moral treatment in some of the stories will strike readers as stale, a feature that makes the book more interesting as history than literature. It was also very good to be introduced to a number of excellent writers of whom I had never heard; Weinman's short introductions to the different writers provides just enough background information to distinguish them as persons. In any case, there was sufficient variety and quality to keep me reading to the end.

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Greyhoundwalker

Great introduction to the genre

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2016

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This is a compilation of many authors' stories, so the questions don't fit. The introduction was very good. But I found the stories a little too noir for my taste. I only read the first four stories.Then I gave the book to a friend. I think the selections were appropriate, based on the editor's introduction. The authors' writing was very good.

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Michele Coit

An awesome collection of eerie and macabre short stories written exclusively by women!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2014

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This is a great collection of short stories all written by women that boarder from eerie to the macabre. From the nanny with issues from her past, to the death of a woman who's sister is convinced isn't a suicide, to the daughter who has suddenly shown up with a black eye and suspicious actions cause her father alarm this book is a page turner.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 8, 2013

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I adore psychological suspense, but lately am getting tired of the proliferation of the graphic forensic police procedurals. These stories deliver pure suspense and psychological insight without the gratuitous gore. The editor has selected supremely satisfying works by authors who you may not have heard of, but whose influence is felt in the genre today. My only "complaint" is that when the stories end, you are left aching for more, wishing the stories would have become novels.

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Interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 9, 2020

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I don't typically read anthologies but I bought this as my own writing has been adversely impacted by the Cornoavirus and I've got to the 45k-mark on my WIP and needed reminding of what great psychological suspense is and I thought what better way to rediscover my love of the genre than read these classic shorts. It's spurred me on to remember that crime fiction is about characters embarking on quests to either discover a criminal, stop someone from becoming one, or to figure out why oneself became one. However some of them aren't necessarily psychological nor do they really involve suspense. They're more or less based on the shock factor and twist endings but without the modern rule of including red herrings beforehand. Though they are all unique and include crime or derangement.

Ms Louise Wilford

Great to read during your lunch-break or on the bus or waiting in queues

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 30, 2019

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This is a fine collection of stories about women who don't behave as you'd expect - murderous nurses, runaways, jealous wives, psychotic orphans, etc - written by some excellent writers including well-known names like Patricia Highsmith. A highly enjoyable collection, varying in quality, but I haven't read a dud yet - I haven't quite finished the book. I keep it in my downstairs toilet to read in there as it lends itself to dipping in and out of.

MrsDanvers

Can we have another volume please?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 22, 2020

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Fabulous collection of 'domestic suspense' stories. If Sarah Weinman or the publisher reads this, please could we have another volume?

jack adrian

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 13, 2015

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Excellent anthology showing women writers on the dark side.

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Snehit

Sharp storytelling.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on May 6, 2017

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This book is not just good because of the stories but also because it serves as a documentation of women crime fiction writers of the past.

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