Books like The best of sisters in crime by Marilyn Wallace

A curated anthology of crime and mystery tales by women American writers, organized by Marilyn Wallace.

A curated collection of 22 ghost stories by women authors—including Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston—explores marriage, motherhood, and the social realities of women through supernatural tales across the United States.

A collection of fourteen chilling short stories by women writers from the 1940s to the 1970s, exploring femme fatale archetypes, domestic suspense, and the dark side of American society.

The South - within its diversity of voices and experiences lies "a shared legacy: the act of speech - of stories handed down in which a distinctive language is honored, a language rich in Biblical and regional contexts; the love of place where individuals, relationships, and family histories not only matter but buttress everyday life. Both are part of that rarest and most indispensable groundspring of literature, memory. The memory of being 'Downhome.'". Susie Mee has gathered a wealth of short fiction by southern women who - from their various backgrounds, from their different eras - draw on that shared legacy she describes in her introduction. That memory of "downhome," whether it is used lovingly or ironically, echoes throughout the seven sections here, which range from Growing Up to Kinfolk and Courtship to Passing On, and in the words of these special authors.