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Here are seventeen of the author's favorite stories, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning novella "Five Days in April," along with the preceding Watchers story "Ten Days in July".

What if you, as a ghost, had to solve your own murder?From internationally acclaimed and New York Times best-selling author Raymond Benson comes a novel that is a ghost story with a distinctive noir sensibility mixed with David Lynchian surrealism.The year is 1985. Manhattan''s Times Square area is sleazy, and the streets are full of what Coleman Sackler calls New York Street Skunk. Cole is the night manager and self-proclaimed hotel detective for the transient Hotel Destiny, which has been plagued with scandals over the century, including several murders, gangster occupation and ownership, and fleabag status during the 1960s and ''70s. Five recent slayings in the building have been attributed to the police believe one killer. During the gala grand re-opening Halloween party, Cole Sackler himself is murdered by a masked man. But hold on! Cole awakes and is still in the hotel as a ghost. Prior to his death, a mysterious woman had told him that hidden portals located throughout the building can lead one to other time periods, and that the key to Cole''s destiny is in the hotel''s past and embedded in its many secrets.Thus, Cole''s spirit sets out to solve his own murder by dropping in on living characters throughout Hotel Destiny''s history and observing and/or interacting with them. His goal is to discover the identity of his killer, as well as learn the ironic truth about his own family, his heritage, and himself!

Cassie O'Malley is back in a Christmas mystery that will keep you laughing and guessing until the final showdown. At odds with her new boss, tabloid reporter Cassie O'Malley finds herself covering the shopping mall at Christmas. Cassie wants nothing to do with the assignment. Then Big Mack turns up dead in the men's room, his throat slit. Sensing an opportunity for fifteen minutes of fame, mall security guard Oliver Berryhill spins a heroic tale of his confrontation in the men's room with the loan shark. The police are skeptical, but Big Mack's son, the even bigger Little Mack is determined to avenge his father's murder. Barely a week later, a second body turns up in the employee break room and Cassie finds herself covering a double homicide. In a race against time, Cassie must solve the double murder before a third victim is killed in this wildly funny mystery.