'What treats you have in store!' IAN RANKIN.

Who knew literature could be so lethal? Here are 20 specially commissioned stories about deadly books from the world's best crime writers. By turns hair-raising and playful, packed with twists and turns, literary references and bookish conundrums, this is a treasure chest of bloodthirsty bibliophilia.

Death Sentences has stories to die for from:

Ian Rankin,

Jeffery Deaver,

Denise Mina,

C.J. Box,

Anne Perry,

Peter Robinson,

Stephen Hunter,

Ken Bruen,

Laura Lippman,

F. Paul Wilson,

Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins,

Joyce Carol Oates,

Peter Lovesey,

Megan Abbott,

R. L. Stine,

Andrew Taylor,

Joe R. Lansdale,

John Connolly,

Christopher Fowler and

Nelson DeMille.