The first Fresh Blood anthology celebrated the "articulate and unpredictable voices" [New York Times] of the New Wave of British crime writers. Fresh Blood 2 brings in a second wave of "crime writing with attitude" from some of the brightest talents of the '90s. There are few detectives - certainly none of the conventional kind - hardly any neat moral solutions, and not a single body in the library. What you get are murderers, victims, thieves, con-men, gamblers, adulterers and contract killers. Each story comes with an introduction from the author, explaining his or her view of modern British crime fiction.