Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more!
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.
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); Mysterious Press.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from Noir Con and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.