An unusual thriller for crime fans

In what its editor called a publishing first, 26 authors with combined sales of tens of millions of books have joined forces to write a thriller called No Rest For the Dead.

Andrew Gulli, who runs Strand Magazine, specializing in crime thrillers and mystery short stories, came up with the idea for a plot and initially invited 12 writers to contribute chapters of their own.

"I had an idea about a woman who was executed for a crime she didn't commit," Gulli says. "So I wrote a prologue and handed it to the first author and he and the others started to write."