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The newspapers call them the Savages: a band of home invaders as merciless as they are stealthy. Usually they don't leave a clue. This time, they've left a body.The first victim is found sprawled on her kitchen floor, blood soaking the terracotta tiles. Before long, another corpse is discovered, dead of fright. As the toll rises, it's up to DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry to track down the killers.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. A new century dawns, one in which America would become pre-eminent as its industrial might and military power rose above all others. In literature too its authors tackled new forms and new ideas, they shied away from little, immersing themselves and their readers in the promise of a new Century.

The American literary tradition has, in a far shorter span of time than others throughout history, achieved a glowing and glittering reputation. From its transatlantic roots it has absorbed the sons and daughters of other cultures, other lands and made them part of her own. Within this melting pot of styles, genres and wordplay one fact stands out: In the American short story, literary tradition has a strong, vibrant and almost inclusive history, if you know where to look.

Der sker uheldssvangre ting i de øde moser i Peak District. Beboerne i flækken Withens dør. Den nittenårige Emma Renshaw forsvandt for to år siden. Hendes lig er aldrig blevet fundet, og forældrene klynger sig til håbet om, at hun er i live. Nu bliver Neil Granger, en bekendt af Emma, myrdet, men hvad lavede han ude i mosen ved den nedlagte, rottebefængte jernbanetunnel, hvor man finder hans lig? Hvorfor gav Neil ikke Emma et lift til stationen, den dag hun forsvandt? Eller gjorde han? Tav han om sandheden?