In settings as diverse as a struggling advertising agency, a bookstore, and a large computer company, the protagonists in this book find duplicity, betrayal, and sudden violence. As so often in life, there are no heroes, and it's often hard to tell who is the greater villain.

A four-time nominee for the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, and winner of the 2001 Ellery Queen Readers' Award, Sellers' stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Down & Out Magazine and numerous anthologies. 'Closing Doors', which appears in this collection and originally appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, was recently awarded the 2020 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Short Story Award.