Stranded

"White nights of passion and revenge in St. Petersburg. A bingo-hall tyrant trapped by masked intruders. The sleazy filpside of the international publishing scene. An author succumbing to the deadly lure of cybersex." "McDermid has chosen the short-story form to probe not only the motivations of the criminal underworld but also the nature of crime itself all the time playing with crime-writing and pushing it to its limits. There are even occasions where McDermid defies the genre altogether and the collection is framed by two stories that show a writer exploring fresh territory."--BOOK JACKET.