The rich have become different from you and me. Blessed by great prosperity, they can obtain what they want, also what they shouldn’t possess. Cursed by great prosperity, they end up being the focuses on of others who will risk everything to be affluent. In THE RICH AND THE Deceased, bestselling writer Nelson DeMille presents twenty original tales by today’s most elite mystery authors who explore the life (and loss of life) styles of the wealthy and infamous.

In Ted Bell’s “The Pirate of Hand Seaside,” an arrogant society about Mystery Authors of America Presents The Full and the Dead columnist feels the unsociable-and deadly-backlash from his poison pencil. In Lee Child’s “Dependent on Sweetness,” a swaggering medication lord plots an awful payback against a thieving underling. In David Morrell’s “The Controller,” a seasoned protection specialist may need to be protected through the mercurial financing titan who buys his providers…and tests his loyalties.

From multinational boardrooms to palatial mansions to exotic playlands, these suspenseful, gold-standard tales reveal in scary, funny, and riveting ways just how much trouble money can purchase.

Featuring stories by Nelson DeMille, Ted Bell, Peter Blauner, Karen Catalona, Tim Chapman, Lee Kid, Michael Connelly, Frank Make, David DeLee, Joseph Goodrich, Daniel J. Hale, Roberta Isleib, Harley Jane Kozak, David Morrell, Carolyn Mullen, Twist Phelan, S. J. Rozan, Jonathan Santlofer, Elaine Togneri, and Angela Zeman.