The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021 PDF

Author: Steph Cha

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0358525691

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Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new The Best American Mystery and Suspense, with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her as the first guest editor. "Crime writers, forgive the pun, are killing it right now creatively," writes guest editor Alafair Burke in her introduction. "It was difficult--painful even--to narrow this year's Best American Mystery and Suspense to only twenty stories." Spanning from a mediocre spa in Florida, to New York's gritty East Village, to death row in Alabama, this collection reveals boundless suspense in small, quiet moments, offering startling twists in the least likely of places. From a powerful response to hateful bullying, to a fight for health care, to a gripping desperation to vote, these stories are equal parts shocking, devastating, and enthralling, revealing the tension pulsing through our everyday lives and affirming that mystery and suspense writing is better than ever before. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021includes JENNY BHATT- GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD- GABINO IGLESIAS- AYA DE LEÓN- LAURA LIPPMAN DELIA C. PITTS- ALEX SEGURA- FAYE SNOWDEN- LISA UNGER and others

The Best of Mystery

The Best of Mystery PDF

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9780760745922

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A collection of suspenseful stories that originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2019

The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 PDF

Author: Jonathan Lethem

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2019-10

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1328636097

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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. 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).

Crime & Mystery

Crime & Mystery PDF

Author: Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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H.R.F Keating, author of The Perfect Murder and mystery reviewer for teh Times of London, offers a concise commentary on the finest mystery books ever written. From Poe's tales of mystery and imagination to P.D. James's A Taste for Death, Keating delivers a highly-readable evaluation of the 100 authors and their masterpieces. This collection is a must for all devoted mystery readers. "Something to offer almost everyone. If you are only just embarking on a life of crime fiction...a reliable guide." -The New York Times "Remarkably balanced and highly entertaining." -Library Journal "Keating, himself a mystery writer of note, has compiled a truly standout survey...This is a gold mine of lively writing, sensible insights and easy-going erudition." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Ideal browsing fare." -Booklist

Dharma

Dharma PDF

Author: Vee Kumari

Publisher: Vijaya G. Kumari

Published: 2020-03-13

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781938394423

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Meet Rekha Rao, a thirty-something Indian American professor of art history. Disillusioned by academia and haunted by the murder of her father, for which she believes police convicted the wrong person, she moves away from her match-making family. While focused on managing her PTSD and healing herself from an abusive boyfriend, her family sets her up to meet a suitor, an Indian attorney who turns out to be a very likable man.She becomes entangled in a second murder -- that of her mentor and father figure. An unusual idol of the Hindu Goddess Durga is the murder weapon left on his body. Rekha is asked to help Detective Al Newton understand the relationship, if any, between the meaning of the statue and the motive for the murder. They constantly clash, starting a love-hate relationship. When police arrest one of her students, and suspect her murdered mentor of idol theft, Rekha's dharma, her sense of duty, propels her into looking for the killer on her own. Despite admonitions from the police detective and being physically assaulted by an intruder who broke into her home, Rekha continues her search for the killer, and in the process, emerges from the cocoon of a protected upbringing, to taste the prospect of romance, and discover her true identity.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2015

The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 PDF

Author: James Patterson

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 0544638743

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Mega best-selling mystery and thriller novelist James Patterson edits a collection of the best mystery writing.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 PDF

Author: C. J. Box

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1328636100

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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 2017

The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 PDF

Author: John Sandford

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 054494920X

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The New York Times–bestselling author presents a thrilling anthology of devious crimes with stories by C. J. Box, Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates and more. “Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshit—al­though there’s always a little, just to grease the wheels,” writes guest editor John Sandford in his introduction to this action-packed volume of mystery fiction. From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underworld, and from kidnapping and adultery in the Hollywood Hills to a serial killer loose in a nursing home, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 hosts an entertaining abundance of crime, psychological suspense, and bad intentions. The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 includes entries by C.J. Box, Gerri Brightwell, Jeffery Deaver, Brendan DuBois, Trina Corey, Craig Johnson, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, and others.