The Best American Mystery Stories 2010

The Best American Mystery Stories 2010
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Corvus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781848875739

Here are 20 of the year's stand-out crime short stories, showcasing not only the very best of the genre, but also the very best American writing.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2006

The Best American Mystery Stories 2006
Author: Scott Turow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2006
Genre: Crime
ISBN: 9781905204656

A must for all crime aficionados, The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 spotlights the very best the genre has to offer. Notable for their dark tone, frequent plot twists, and, above all, their outright entertainment value, here are twenty of 2006's stand-out short stories by bestselling authors and newcomers alike. The veterans show us they still have new tricks up their sleeves, while the (as yet) unknowns clearly mark themselves as talents to watch.Sellected by bestselling author Scott Turrow, 2006's collection includes stories by: James Lee Burke, Jeffery Deaver, Andrew Klavan, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosely, and Joyce Carol Oates.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020
Author: C. J. Box
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre:
ISBN: 1328636100

A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
Author: Harlan Coben
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 054755396X

The editors present a collection of the best mystery writing culled from a variety of sources.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2018

The Best American Mystery Stories 2018
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544949099

An anthology of the best mystery short stories published in 2017 selected by best-selling author Louise Penny.

The Best American Noir of the Century

The Best American Noir of the Century
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 755
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547577443

A treasure trove of a hundred years' worth of the finest noir writing selected by James Ellroy

The Best American Mystery Stories 2019

The Best American Mystery Stories 2019
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2019-10
Genre:
ISBN: 1328636097

New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year's best mystery short fiction. Jonathan Lethem, "one of America's greatest storytellers" (Washington Post), selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).

The Screaming of the Innocent

The Screaming of the Innocent
Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781876756208

One afternoon, a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village. The local police tell her mother and the villagers she has been taken by a wild animal. Five years later, young government employee Amantle Bokaa finds a box bearing the label 'Neo Kakang; CRB 45/94'. It contains evidence of human involvement in the affair. So begins an illegal and undercover struggle for justice and retribution. Botswanan High Court Judge Unity Dow's second novel is a gripping story of how groups of 'little people' come together to identify the prime suspects' the 'big men' who are beneath contempt, but above the law.

Caught

Caught
Author: Harlan Coben
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524745499

The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger delivers a twisted #1 New York Times bestseller about a man who—with the best of intentions—opens the wrong door... Reporter Wendy Tynes is making a name for herself, bringing down sexual offenders on nationally televised sting operations. But when social worker Dan Mercer walks into her trap, Wendy gets thrown into a story more complicated than she could ever imagine. Dan is tied to the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old New Jersey girl, and the shocking consequences will have Wendy doubting her instincts about the motives of the people around her, while confronting the true nature of guilt, grief, and her own capacity for forgiveness...

Three Weeks to Say Goodbye

Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
Author: C.J. Box
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429989106

New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box's novels have been called "red hot" (Booklist) and "edge-of-your-seat read[s]" (Omaha World-Herald). Now he delivers a novel that will steal your sleep as much as it will wrench your heart. Three Weeks to Say Goodbye is a novel about something that could be anyone's worst nightmare. . . Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone call... Angelina's birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights—and he wants her back. Worse, his father, a powerful Denver judge, will use every trick in the book to make sure it happens. The McGuanes attempt to meet face-to-face with the father and son...but soon it becomes clear that there's something sinister about their motivations—and that love for Angelina is not one of them. A horrifying game of intimidation and double crosses begins that quickly becomes a death spiral where everyone is suspect and no one is safe. Now Jack and Melissa will stop at nothing to protect their child—even though time is running out... C.J. Box has once again written a bone-chilling thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.