This NY Times and USA TODAY bestseller, is a collaboration between twenty bestselling mystery novelists who’ve joined forces to make a spellbinding story of love, betrayal, and intrigue. “Visitors can’t go wrong with this juicy thriller” raves Library Journal.

Pericles “Perry” Christo is a PI with a past-a past cop who shed his badge and his family members when a corruption scandal still left him broke and disgraced. So when wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one frosty about Inherit the Dead: A Novel February night, he grabs what appears to be a straightforward (and profitable) case.

The socialite wants her beautiful, aimless girl, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But simply because Christo digs deeper, he discovers there’s much more to the beautiful “Angel” than meets the attention. This traditional noir tale twists and transforms down New York’s mean roads and along Hamptons’ seashores and back roads during a bitterly cold and gray winter where nothing is as it appears and everyone provides something to cover.

In this inventive “serial novel” storytelling approach, each one of the twenty bestselling writers brings his or her distinctive voice to a chapter of Inherit the Dead, building the strain to a shocking, explosive finale. The editor, Jonathan Santlofer, offers arranged to donate any royalties in excess of editor and contributor payment to Safe Horizon, the leading victim assistance agency in the country.