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Twenty stories—remarkable in their diversity—comprise this 17th instalment of Penzler's annual anthology of the Best American Mystery Stories. Best-selling novelist and Edgar Award winner, Lisa Scottoline brings her mastery of the thriller genre as well as her wit and heart to this collection of must-reads in mysteries. As always, series editor Penzler makes the initial selection, turning over his 50 favourites to a guest editor— this time it’s Lisa Scottoline - to make the final choices. She has done her work well, coming up with a nice mix of big names (Connelly, Oates, Pronzini) and lesser-knowns, who, judging by their contributions here, won’t be lesser-known all that much longer. The plots and settings are more varied than a reader might expect, but what surprises is how literary many of these stories are, as the opening entry, "Smothered and Covered," by Tom Barlow, about a down-and-out guy who sees a young girl just before her mysterious death, an encounter that prompts reflection on the loss of his own daughter. The most literary of the bunch is Randall Silvis's "The Indian," about a small-town vendetta between a lowlife and his teenage best friend, though it's much too l

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Author

Penzler, Otto (editor); Scottoline, Lisa (editor)

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780544032422

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Comics, True Crime, Short Stories

Rating

3.62 / 5 (233 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14