Maxim Jakubowski is a noted anthology editor with over seventy volumes to his credit, including “Invisible Blood,” the thirteen annual volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries, and titles on Professor Moriarty, Jack the Ripper, Future Crime, and Vintage whodunits. A publisher for over 20 years, he was also the co-owner of London’s Murder One bookstore and the crime columnist for Time Out and then The Guardian for 22 years. Stories from his anthologies have won most of the awards in the field on numerous occasions. He is currently the Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and a Sunday Times bestselling novelist in another genre. He is the editor of a new collection of short stories, “Daggers Drawn.” Edgy, twisted and disturbing, “Daggers Drawn” is the first Crime Writers’ Association Daggers Award retrospective, a visceral and thrilling collection featuring bestselling authors Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Denise Mina, and John Harvey. (amazon, 2021)

“Daggers Drawn” includes nineteen CWA Dagger-Award winning short stories from the best of the best in crime fiction. The first retrospective of the CWA’s Dagger Award winners, it brings together some of the greatest names in crime fiction to deliver a cutthroat collection of serial killers, grizzled detectives, drug dealers, and expert forgers. Observe as a Senior Curator at the Tate Gallery constructs the perfect crime in Ian Rankin’s “Herbert in Motion.” Watch an unlikely romance sour into a deadly obsession in Stella Duffy’s “Martha Grace.” Face parents who discover their child has committed the unthinkable in Denise Mina’s “Nemo Me Impune Lacessit.” In Jeffery Deaver’s “The Weekender” an intense hostage situation hits its peak in the most unlikely conclusion. Keep your secrets close, and your daggers drawn