Try 1001 Deadly Checkmates by Nunn. Excellent puzzle book. This is the book you are looking for.
https://www.amazon.com/1001-Deadly-Checkmates-John-Nunn/dp/1906454256
Try 1001 Deadly Checkmates by Nunn. Excellent puzzle book. This is the book you are looking for.
https://www.amazon.com/1001-Deadly-Checkmates-John-Nunn/dp/1906454256
Two books, which I think are better than average, and which appear to fit your requirements are...
"Winning Chess..." by Irving Chernev & Fred Reinfeld
"Chess Tactics From Scratch..." by Martin Weteschnik
Palatnik, Sam, and Lev Alburt. 2013. Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player. New York, NY: Chess Information & Research Center.
Chess Tactics (Paul Littlewood)
https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Tactics-Batsford-Book/dp/0713489340/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1470880885&sr=8-1
Thin, but well organized and good material.
I have read quite a bit lately, and I ran into a book by Danny Gormally - Mating the Castled King.
The opening of the book, the first 200 pages or so, contain 160 "Puzzles" or rather positions with solutions where you seek the way to mate or continue the attack, sorted by motifs.
So you get back positions where Bishop and a Rook coordinate, rank mates, Bishop clearance, Bishop and Knight coordination, Queen and Knight coordination, Breakthrough on the g-file, and so on, each with half a dozen to dozen combinations all with the same motif.
I am very satisfied with how that works and I think it is a great way to work.
They aren't sorted by "mate in 3" principles where each is a way different position, but rather by a more logical concept of drilling the key factor in the positions.
Does anyone know any other books that have similar content?