Book excerpt: Including The Message by Margaret Murphy and Laptop by Cath Staincliffe, both winners of the CWA short story Daggar Award 2012. Best Eaten Cold and Other Stories showcases a group of highly regarded, award-winning crime writers who all share a special passion for crime, which is reflected in this superb new volume. Funny and sad, atmospheric and dark, ingenious and frightening, each of the thirteen stories in this collection will thrill lovers of crime fiction.