New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed among the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every main award in the genre. The author from the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.We. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone books, Lippman now becomes her attention to brief stories-and reveals another level of mastery.

In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter inside a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.