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The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®) by Jonathan Lethem; Otto Penzler; Robert Hinderliter; Sharon Hunt; Reed Johnson; Arthur Klepchukov; Harley Jane Kozak; Preston Lang; Jared Lipof; Anne-Therese Macdonald; Mark Mayer; Rebecca McKanna; Joyce Carol Oates; Brian Panowich; Tonya D Price; Suzanne Proulx; Ron Rash; Amanda Rea; Duane Swierczynski; Terry White; Ted White is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction. For Jonathan Lethem, “crime stories are deep species gossip.” He writes in his introduction that “they’re fundamentally stories of power, of its exercise, both spontaneous and conspiratorial; stories of impulse and desire, and of the turning of tables.” The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 has its full share of salacious intrigue, guilt, and retribution. The twists and bad decisions pile up when a thief picks the wrong target or a simple scavenger hunt takes a terrible turn. What happens when you befriend a death row inmate, or just how does writing Internet clickbait became a decidedly dangerous occupation? “How can we not hang on their outcomes?” asks Lethem. “Are we innocent ourselves, or complicit?” Guest editor Lethem infuses much-needed variety into the 23rd volume in Penzler’s annual best-of series. Rebecca McKanna’s marvellous “Interpreting American Gothic” finds an unlikely correspondence between a death row inmate and an art museum employee, who is transformed by the experience. In Amanda Rea’s haunting “Faint of Heart,” a carefu

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Author

Jonathan Lethem; Otto Penzler; Robert Hinderliter; Sharon Hunt; Reed Johnson; Arthur Klepchukov; Harley Jane Kozak; Preston Lang; Jared Lipof; Anne-Therese Macdonald; Mark Mayer; Rebecca McKanna; Joyce Carol Oates; Brian Panowich; Tonya D Price; Suzanne Proulx; Ron Rash; Amanda Rea; Duane Swierczynski; Terry White; Ted White

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781328636096

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.1 / 5 (179 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14