The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1613162383

A Wall Street Journal holiday 2021 pick A Suspense Magazine Best Book of the Year Lee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many 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 Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume. Includes stories by: Alison Gaylin David Morrell James Lee Burke Joyce Carol Oates Martin Edwards Sara Paretsky Stephen King Sue Grafton (with a new, posthumously-published work!) And many more!

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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.

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Total Pages:
Release: 2022
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781432897550

"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 Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume. Includes stories by: Alison Gaylin, David Morrell, James Lee Burke, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Edwards, Sara Paretsky, Stephen King, Sue Grafton (with a new, posthumously-published work!) And many more!"--

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022
Author: Sara Paretsky
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1613163487

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.

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781613164495

Amor Towles selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and Michael Mallory 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, New York Times bestseller Amor Towles has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume. The volume also contains a "bonus story" selected from the bookshop's rare book room, featuring a look into the history of this illustrious genre.

Adventure

Adventure
Author: Diana Deverell
Publisher: Kydala Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2024-09-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Action-Adventure tales to lead you to places you’ve never been — and hope you make it back. Make a wildfire your ally. Tread softly with the French Resistance during WWII. Extract an informant from the dangers of the Babylonian streets. Sail the Atlantic, float down a river, or take a fishing boat far out to sea. And you can always fight the Phoenicians with the least lucky Viking ever born. Join the adventure and you’ll never look back.

Dark of the Day

Dark of the Day
Author: Kaye George
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2024-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

An anthology of stories to celebrate the April 2024 eclipse in North America. These stories are located in various places and are even of various genres and themes. What they have in common, besides featuring eclipses, are that they are all written by brilliant authors and will all entertain you. Read them before the eclipse, to get into the mood, or after, to nostalgically remember it. During the darkness, all manner of things can happen. When people are distracted by this spectacular celestial event, criminals can operate unimpeded, they can also be caught. Trips to see the event can lead to disaster, or they can save the day. And the science of looking at the sun becomes important when a partner strays. The event can mean many different things to a disaster cult, to drug-dealing Russians, to an artist striving for his grand opus. It spreads across the country to, maybe, give confirmation to a program to analyze the universe, to give a gift to a mermaid in an abandoned water park, to show what the crazy guy at the fast food place is really like, to help a young girl find her way. As a not-so-clever crime goes awry, a hike to view the spectacle is interrupted. Contributors include Cari Dubiel, Katherine Tomlinson, Carol L. Wright, Joseph S. Walker, John Rogers Clark IV, M. K. Waller, Toni Goodyear, Laura Oles, Bridges DelPonte, Eric Beckstrom, Kaye George, Paula Gail Benson, John M. Floyd, Debra H. Goldstein, Michael Bracken, and James A. Hearn.

(I Just) Died in Your Arms

(I Just) Died in Your Arms
Author: Sandra Murphy
Publisher: White City Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2024-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1963479017

Hitting the charts only once isn't just unfortunate...it's a crime. Over the decades, tons of musical artists and groups have had a hit song that has lived on long after the tune topped the charts and is often looked upon fondly for decades to come. For some musicians, this may be the only the song they're ever known for and they fade into obscurity soon thereafter. These are affectionately known as "one-hit wonders," and are much celebrated by fans and music publications, particularly on September 25th each year on One-Hit Wonder Day. 12 of today's best short story authors have taken their favorite one-hit wonders and reimagined them as the influence for some pretty heinous crimes. (I Just) Died in Your Arms features a decades-spanning collection of immediately recognizable hit songs turned into stories from the amazing talents of Vinnie Hansen, Jeanne DuBois, Josh Pachter, J.M. Taylor, Christine Verstraete, Sandra Murphy, Joseph S. Walker, Wendy Harrison, Bev Vincent, Leone Ciporin, Adam Gorgoni and Barb Goffman.

Mickey Finn Vol. 4

Mickey Finn Vol. 4
Author: Michael Bracken
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Volume 4, the fourth entry of the hard-hitting anthology series, is another crime-fiction cocktail that will again knock readers into a literary stupor. Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction, driving their work into places short crime fiction doesn’t often go, into a world where the mean streets seem gentrified by comparison and happy endings are the exception rather than the rule. And they do all this in contemporary settings, bringing noir into the 21st century. Like any good cocktail, Mickey Finn is a heady mix of ingredients that packs a punch, and when you’ve finished reading every story, you’ll know that you’ve been “slipped a Mickey.” The nineteen contributors, including some of today’s most respected short-story writers and new writers making their mark on the genre, include: Ann Aptaker, Trey R. Barker, Michael Bracken, John M. Floyd, Nils Gilbertson, David Hagerty, James A. Hearn, Hugh Lessig, Sean McCluskey, Adam Meyer, Gabe Morran, Alan Orloff, Josh Pachter, Stephen D. Rogers, Bev Vincent, Joseph S. Walker, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Sam Wiebe, and Stacy Woodson.