"Diverse voices, settings, and premises make this a treat for fans of literate and inventive mystery fiction."
Description
Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
Includes stories by:
- Doug Allyn
- Colin Barrett
- Jerome Charyn
- Michael Connelly
- Susan Frith
- Tom Larsen
- Sean Marciniak
- Stefon Mears
- Kieth Lee Morris
- Gwen Mullins
- Jo Nesbo
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Annie Reed
- Kristen Kathryn Rusch
- Anna Scotti
- Ginny Swart
- Ellen Tremiti
- Joseph S. Walker
- Colson Whitehead
- Michael Wiley
Plus a bonus vintage story from the annals of mystery fiction, written over a century in the past.
Reviews
"The stories take off from their humble points of origin into spaces few would have predicted, as they explore the terrain most familiar and yet most mysterious of all: the geography of the human heart. Imaginations run loose in the best ways possible."
"Penzler's latest anthology of the year's best mystery stories, guest edited this time by Sara Paretsky, brings together short fiction weighted toward character-driven tales awash in psychological thrills. Mobsters, assassins, and executioners blend with
