The best American mystery stories
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Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997-.
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| Volume | Location | Call Number | Status |
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| 2001 | Liberty Public Library - Adult Short Story Anthologies | SC BES 2001 | On Shelf |
| 2006 | Liberty Public Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BES 2006 | On Shelf |
| 2005 | Liberty Public Library - Adult Mystery | MYS SC BES 2005 | On Shelf |
| 1997 | Liberty Public Library - Adult Short Story Anthologies | Bes 1997 | On Shelf |
| 2013 | Liberty Public Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BES 2013 | On Shelf |
| 2015 | Liberty Public Library - Adult Mystery | BES 2015 | On Shelf |
| 2017 | Liberty Public Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BES 2017 | On Shelf |
| Volume | Location | Call Number | Status |
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| Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Mystery | M Best | On Shelf | |
| Fallsburg Library - Adult Fiction | FIC HIAASEN | On Shelf | |
| Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Mystery | Best | On Shelf | |
| Jeffersonville-Western Sullivan Public Library Jeffersonvill - Adult Mystery | M Bes 2013 | On Shelf | |
| Jeffersonville-Western Sullivan Public Library Jeffersonvill - Adult Mystery | M Bes 2010 | On Shelf | |
| Jeffersonville-Western Sullivan Public Library Jeffersonvill - Adult Mystery | M Bes | On Shelf | |
| Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Short Story Anthologies | SS CHILD | On Shelf | |
| Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Short Story Anthologies | SS CHILD | On Shelf | |
| Nanuet Public Library - Adult Mystery | M Best 2021 | On Shelf | |
| Nanuet Public Library - Adult Mystery | M Best 2022 | On Shelf | |
| Narrowsburg-Western Sullivan Public Library Tusten Cochecton - Adult Short Story Anthologies | Short Stories Bes Box 2020 | On Shelf | |
| New City Library - Adult Mystery | MYSTERY BEST | On Shelf | |
| New City Library - Adult Mystery | MYSTERY BEST | On Shelf | |
| Pearl River Public Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BES | On Shelf | |
| Pearl River Public Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BES | On Shelf | |
| Pearl River Public Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BES | On Shelf | |
| Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS Best Mystery | On Shelf | |
| Tuxedo Park Library - Adult Fiction | Best 2021 | On Shelf | |
| Valley Cottage Free Library - Adult Fiction | BEST 2019 | On Shelf | |
| 2004 | Cornwall Public Library - Adult Short Story Anthologies | SC Best American 2004 | On Shelf |
| 1998 | Eldred-Sunshine Hall Free Library - Adult Mystery | Best 1998 | On Shelf |
| 1998 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS Best 1998 | On Shelf |
| 2000 | Monticello-Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library - Adult Fiction | BES 2000 | On Shelf |
| 2006 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2006 | On Shelf |
| 2005 | Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Mystery | Best 2005 | On Shelf |
| 2005 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2005 | On Shelf |
| 1997 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS Best 1997 | On Shelf |
| 2019 | Nanuet Public Library - Adult Mystery | M Best 2019 | On Shelf |
| 2019 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2019 | On Shelf |
| 2019 | Stony Point-Rose Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2019 | On Shelf |
| 2019 | Suffern Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 813.0872 BES 2019 | On Shelf |
| 2007 | Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Mystery | Best 2007 | On Shelf |
| 2009 | New City Library - Adult Mystery | MYSTERY BEST 2009 | On Shelf |
| 2009 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2009 | On Shelf |
| 2015 | Nanuet Public Library - Adult Mystery | M Best 2015 | On Shelf |
| 2015 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2015 | On Shelf |
| 2016 | New City Library - Adult Mystery | MYSTERY BEST 2016 | On Shelf |
| 2016 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2016 | On Shelf |
| 2017 | Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Mystery | FIC Best 2017 | On Shelf |
| 2017 | Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 813.0872 BEST 2017 | On Shelf |
| 2017 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2017 | On Shelf |
| 2017 | Stony Point-Rose Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | BEST 2017 | On Shelf |
| 2018 | Stony Point-Rose Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | BEST 2018 | On Shelf |
| 1999 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS Best 1999 | On Shelf |
| 2002 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2002 | On Shelf |
| 2002 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS Best 2002 | On Shelf |
| 2003 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2003 | On Shelf |
| 2010 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2010 | On Shelf |
| 2014 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2014 | On Shelf |
| 2020 | Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Mystery | M Best 2020 | On Shelf |
| 2020 | Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Short Story Anthologies | SS BEST 2020 | On Shelf |
| 2020 | Nanuet Public Library - Adult Mystery | M Best 2020 | On Shelf |
| 2020 | Nyack Library - Adult Mystery | BEST 2020 | On Shelf |
| 2020 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Mystery | MYS BEST 2020 | On Shelf |
| 2020 | Tuxedo Park Library - Adult Fiction | Best 2020 | On Shelf |
| 2022 | Nyack Library - Adult Mystery | BEST 2022 | On Shelf |
Table of Contents
1997: Blind lemon / Doug Allyn
Hot springs / James Crumley
The weekender / Jeffery Deaver
The dark snow / Brendan Dubois
the surprise of his life / Elizabeth George
Eyes that never meet / Jeremiah Healy
Another tented evening / Melodie Johnson Howe
The mark / Pat Jordan
The things we do for love / Jonathan Kellerman
Lou Monahan, county prosecutor / Andrew Klavan
Karen makes out / Elmore Leonard
Red clay / Michael Malone
Mrs. Feeley is quite mad / Mabel Maney
Will you always love me? / Joyce Carol Oates
When you're hungry / George Pelecanos
Hoops / S.J. Rozan
Doblin's lecture / Allen Steele
Kindred spirits / Brad Watson
There are monsterim / John Weisman
Unlawful contact / Monica Wood.
1998: Child support / David Ballard
Swear not by the moon / Scott Bartels
Keller on the spot / Lawrence Block
The man next door / Mary Higgins Clark
This is a voice from your past / Merrill Joan Gerber
The old spies club / Edward D. Hoch
Beyond dog / Pat Jordan
Find Miriam / Stuart M. Kaminsky
Secrets / Janice Law
Adventure of the giant rat of Sumatra / John T. Lescroart
Night crawlers / John Lutz
Prayer for judgment / Margaret Maron
Con doctor / Jay McInerny
Black dog / Walter Mosley
Faithless / Joyce Carol Oates
Two ladies of Rose Cottage / Peter Robinson
Twelve days out of traction / Dave Shaw
Power of suggestion / Helen Tucker
Take it away / Donald E. Westlake
Rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough.
1999: Keller's last refuge / Lawrence Block
Safe / Gary A. Braunbeck
Fatherhood / Thomas H. Cook
Wrong time, wrong place / Jeffrey Deaver
Netmail / Brendan DuBois
Redneck / Loren D. Estleman
And maybe the horse will learn to sing / Gregory Fallis
Poachers / Tom Franklin
Hitting Rufus / Victor Gischler
Out there in the darkness / Ed Gorman
Survival / Joseph Hansen
A death on the Ho Chi Minh trail / David K. Harford
An innocent bystander / Gary Krist
The jailhouse lawyer / Phillip M. Margolin
Secret, silent / Joyce Carol Oates
In Flanders fields / Peter Robinson
Dry whiskey / David B. Silva
Sacrifice / L.L. Thrasher
Bech noir / John Updike.
2000: Miracles! Happen! / Doug Allyn
Ghosts / David Beaty
Spring rite / Tom Berdine
Annie's dream / Bentley Dadmun
Motel 66 / Barbara D'Amato
Jumping with Jim / Geary Danihy
Triangle / Jeffery Deaver
The instruments of peace / Edward Falco
Grit / Tom Franklin
Compass Rose / David Edgerley Gates
The defenestration of Aba Sid / Robert Girardi
The island in the river / Chad Holley
ICU / Edward Lee
Running out of dog/ Dennis Lehane
Sheep / Thomas H. McNeely
Dead rock singer / Martha Moffett
Wrong numbers / Josh Pryor
The guilty party / Shel Silverstein
Forgetting the girl / Peter Moore Smith
Water dog god / Brad Watson.
2001: Things that make your heart beat faster / Jennifer Anderson
Lobster night / Russell Banks
Prison food / Michael Downs
In the zone / Leslie Edgerton
Paperhanger / William Gay
Book of kells / Jeremiah Healy
Erie's last day / Steve Hockensmith
Under suspicion / Clark Howard
Her hollywood / Michael Hyde
Family / Dan Leone
Blood sport / Thomas Lynch
Carnie / David Means
Tides / Kent Nelson
Girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates
Easy street / T. Jefferson Parker
Big bite / Bill Pronzini
Missing in action / Peter Robinson
Face-lift / Roxana Robinson
Big ranch /John Salter
Push comes to shove / Nathan Walpow.
2002: It is raining in Bejucal / John Biguenet
Two-Bagger / Michael Connelly
The fix / Thomas H. Cook
Summa Mathematica / Sean Doolittle
Man kills wife, two dogs / Michael Downs
A family game / Brendan Dubois
The blue mirror / David Edgerley Gates
Inscrutable / Joe Gores
The championship of nowhere / James Grady
The cobalt blues / Clark Howard
Sometimes something goes wrong / Stuart M. Kaminsky
The mule rustlers / Joe R. Lansdale
Maniac loose / michael malone
Counting / Fred Melton
You don't know me / Annette Meyers
The high school sweetheart / Joyce Carol Oates
Harlem Nocturne / Robert B. Parker
Midnight emissions / F. X. Toole
A lepidopterist's tale / Daniel Waterman
The copper kings / Scott Wolven.
2003: Introduction / Michael Connelly
The jukebox king / Doug Allyn
Aardvark to aztec / Christopher Chambers
The pickpocket / Christopher Cook
After you've gone / John Peyton Cooke
Hostages / James Crumley
Death on denial / O'neil de Noux
The jeweler / Pete Dexter
Thug : signification and the (de) construction of self / Tyler Dilts
War can be murder / Mike Doogan
Richard's children / Brendan Dubois
When the women came out to dance / Elmore Leonard
The Confession / Robert Mckee
Lavender / Walter Mosley
The skull / Joyce Carol Oates
The dead their eyes implore us / George P. Pelecanos
Sockdolager / Scott Phillips
The adventure of the agitated actress / Daneil Stashower
Home sweet home / Hannah Tinti
Controlled burn / Scott Wolven
That one autumn / Monica Wood.
2004: Bet on red / Jeff Abbott
Stonewalls / Jeffrey Robert Bowman
Height advantage / William J. Carroll
Evolution / Benjamin Cavell
All through the house / Christopher Coake
Where beautiful ladies dance for you / Patrick Michael Finn
How Wendy Tudhope was saved from sure and certain death / Rob Kantner
Snake eyes / Jonathon King
Harvey's dream / Stephen King
Smash and grab / Michael Knight
Bank of America / Richard Lange
Lids / Tom Larsen
Low tide / Dick Lochte
The incident of the impecunious chevalier / Richard A. Lupoff
Doll: a romance of the Mississippi / Joyce Carol Oates
The swag from Doc Hawthorn's / Jack O'Connell
Best man wins / Frederick Williams
Something about Teddy / Timothy Williams
El Rey / Scott Wolven
Green heat / Angela Zeman.
2005: The identity club / Richard Burgin
Disaster stamps of Pluto / Louise Erdrich
Delmonico / Daniel Handler
Jack Duggan's law / George V. Higgins
Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones
The shooting of John Roy Worth / Stuart M. Kaminsky
Until Gwen / Dennis Lehane
The shoeshine man's regrets / Laura Lippman
When all this was Bay Ridge / Tim McLoughlin
Case closed / Lou Manfredo
Sault Ste. Marie / David Means
Public trouble / Kent Nelson
Officers weep / Daniel Orozco
The last man I killed / David Rachel
One Mississippi / Joseph Raiche
Cruisers / John Sayles
Reconstruction / Sam Shaw
The love of a strong man / Oz Spies
Loyalty / Scott Turow
Barracuda / Scott Wolven
Contributors' notes
Other distinguished mystery stories of 2004.
2006: Theft / Karen E. Bender --
Pirates of Yellowstone / C.J. Box --
Why Bugsy Siegel was a friend of mine / James Lee Burke --
Born bad / Jeffrey Deaver --
Edelweiss / Jane Haddam --
Texas heat / William Harrison --
Peacekeeper / Alan Heathcock --
A.k.a. Moises Rockafella / Emory Holmes --
Dust up / Wendy Hornsby --
Her lord and master / Andrew Klaven --
Louly and Pretty Boy / Elmore Leonard --
Crack cocaine diet (or, How to lose a lot of weight and change your life in just one weekend) / Laura Lipman --
Improvisation / Ed McBain --
McHenry's gift / Mike McClean --
Karma / Walter Mosley --
So help me God / Joyce Carol Oates --
Temporary crown / Sue Pike --
Smile / Emily Raboteau --
Ina Grove / R.T. Smith --
Ringing the changes / Jeff Somers --
Vigilance / Scott Wolven.
2007: Stab / Chris Adrian
Solomon's Alley / Robert Andrews
Going, going, gone / Peter Blauner
Keller's double dribble / Lawrence Block
T-Bird / John Bond
A season of regret / James Lee Burke
The timing of unfelt smiles / John Dufresne
Gleason / Louise Erdrich
Chellini's solution / Jim Fusilli
Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you? / William Gay
Take the man's pay / Robert Knightly
One true love / Laura Lippman
The spot / David Means
Rodney Valen's second life / Kent Meyers
Meadowlands / Joyce Carol Oates
Jakob Loomis / Jason Ockert
Queeny / Ridley Pearson
Lucy had a list / John Sandford
The true history / Brent Spencer
Pinwheel / Scott Wolven.
2008: Mist / James Lee Burke
Mulholland Drive / Michael Connelly
The Hour When the Ship Comes In / Rovert Ferrigno
One Good One / Chuck Hogan
The Monks of the Abbey Victoria / Rupert Holmes
Proof of God / Holly Goddard Jones
Tunis and Time / Peter LaSalle
A Day Meant to Do Less / Kyle Minor
Child's Play / Alice Munro
Win's Girl / Thisbe Nissen
The Blind Man's Sighted Daughters / Joyce Carol Oates
The Empty House / Nathan Oates
Car Trouble / Jas R. Petrin
The Emerson, 1950 / Scott Phillips
At the Top of His Game / Stephen Rhodes
Hothouse / S.J. Rozan
The Invisibles / Hugh Sheehy
A Different Road / Elizabeth Strout
Given Her History / Melissa Vanbeck
St. Gabriel / Scott Wolven
2009: Foreword
Introduction / Jeffery Deaver
Rust / N.J. Ayres
My interview with the Avenger / Tom Bissell
Winning / Alafair Burke
Big midnight special / James Lee Burke
Beanball / Ron Carlson
Father's Day / Michael Connelly
Pretty little parasite / David Corbett
Meantime, Quentin Ghlee / M.M.M. Hayes
Two thousand volts / Chuck Hogan
Manila burning / Clark Howard
Down home blues / Rob Kantner
My son / Robert McClure
Free radicals / Alice Munro
Dear husband / Joyce Carol Oates
Wanted man / Nic Pizzolatto
Kamila and the king of Kandy / Garry Craig Powell
The man who fell in love with the stump of a tree / Randy Rohn
G-Men / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Bola de la fortuna / Jonathan Tel
This or any desert / Vu Tran
Contributor's notes
Other distinguished mystery stories of 2008.
2010: Introduction / Lee Child
Charlie and the pirates / Gary Alexander
The Emerald Coast / R.A. Allen
An early Christmas / Doug Allyn
Maynard / Mary Stewart Atwell
Dredge / Matt Bell
A jury of his peers / Jay Brandon
Designer justice / Phyllis Cohen
The cross-eyed bear / John Dufresne
The case of Colonel Warburton's madness / Lyndsay Faye
The first rule is / Gar Anthony Haywood
Killing time / Jon Land
Animal rescue / Dennis Lehane
Tell me / Lynda Leidiger
The house on Pine Terrace / Phillip Margolin
Bias / Chris Muessig
Bismarck rules / Albert Tucher
Ed Luby's key club / Kurt Vonnegut
Custom sets / Joseph Wallace
The shipbreaker / Mike Wiecek
Blood and dirt / Ryan Zimmerman.
2011: Introduction / Harlan Coben
Audacious / Brock Adams
Something pretty, something beautiful / Eric Barnes
Clean slate / Lawrence Block
Who stole my monkey? / David Corbett and Luis Alberto Urrea
Ride-along / Brendan DuBois
Sometimes a hyena / Loren D. Estleman
What his hands had been waiting for / Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin
A crime of opportunity / Ernest J. Finney
Flying solo / Ed Gorman
Destiny city / James Grady
The hitter / Chris F. Holm
West of nowhere / Harry Hunsicker
Baby killer / Richard Lange
The stars are falling / Joe E. Lansdale
The end of the string / Charles McCarry
Diamond alley / Dennis McFadden
Last cottage / Christopher Merkner
Heart like a balloon / Andrew Riconda
Chin Yong-Yun takes a case / S.J. Rozan
A long time dead / Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.
2012: Introduction / Robert Crais
The Hilt / Tom Andes
The Bridge partner / Peter S. Beagle
Filament / K. L. Cook
The Funeral bill / Jason DeYoung
Fifty minutes / Joe Donnelly and Harry Shannon
Man on the run / Kathleen Ford
The Other place / Mary Gaitskill
Safety / Jesse Goolsby
Trafficking / Katherine L. Hester
Soul anatomy / Lou Manfredo
The Good samaritan / Thomas McGuane
Looking for service / Nathan Oates
Dog on a cow / Gina Paoli
Vic primeval / T. Jefferson Parker
Hard truths / Thomas J. Rice
Local knowledge / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Icarus / Lones Seiber
Trafalgar / Charles Todd
Half-lives / Tim L. Williams
Returning the river / Daniel Woodrell.
2013: Foreword / Otto Penzler
Introduction / Lisa Scottoline
Smothered and covered / Tom Barlow
A fine mist of blood / Michael Connelly
Misprision of felony / O'Neil de Noux
The sailor in the picture / Eileen Dreyer
The devil to pay / David Edgerley Gates
The street ends at the cemetery / Clark Howard
Crossing / Andre Kocsis
Remora, IL / Kevin Leahy
Thy shiny car in the night / Nick Mamatas
Drifter / Emily St. John Mandel
The ring of Kerry / Dennis McFadden
Quarry / Micah Nathan
So near any time always / Joyce Carol Oates
Light bulb / Nancy Pickard
Gunpowder Alley / Bill Pronzini
The Indian / Randall Silvis
When they are done with us / Patricia Smith
The don's cinnamon / Ben Stroud
Bullet number two / Hannah Tinti
Bound / Maurine Dallas Watkins
Contributor's notes
Other distinguished mystery stories of 2012.
2014: Introduction / Laura Lippman
My heart is either broken / Megan Abbott
Collectors / Daniel Alarcón
Princess Anne / Jim Allyn
Snuff / Jodi Angel
Former marine / Russell Banks
Going across Jordan / James Lee Burke - - Aida / Patricia Engel
The wrecker / Ernest Finney
I will follow you / Roxane Gay
Bush-Hammer finish / Michelle Butler Hallett
Small kingdoms / Charlaine Harris
Almost like Christmas / Joseph Heller
The covering storm / David H. Ingram
A good marriage / Ed Kurtz
Gauley season / Matthew Neill Null
Rough deeds / Annie Proulx
Pleasant Grove / Scott Loring Sanders
Festered wounds / Nancy Pauline Simpson
Satan's kingtom / Dennis Tafoya
Antarctica / Laura Van Den Berg
Contributor's notes
Other distinguished mystery stories of 2014.
2015: Introduction / James Patterson
The snow angel / Doug Allyn
Cowboy justice / Andrew Bourelle
Rosalee Carrasco / Romiko M. Breland
Wet with rain / Lee Child
Red eye / Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane
Harm and hammer / Joseph D'Agnese
The adventure of the laughing fisherman / Jeffery Deaver
Crush depth / Brendan Dubois
Molly's plan / John M. Floyd
A bottle of scotch and a sharp buck knife / Scott Grand
Shared room on union / Steven Heighton
Afterlife of a stolen child / Janette Turner Hospital
Apocrypha / Richard Lange
Staircase to the moon / Theresa E. Lehr
A man looking for trouble / Lee Martin
Many dogs have died here / James Mathews
Motherlode / Thomas McGuane
A kidnapping in Koulev-Ville / Kyle Minor
The home at Craigmillnar / Joyce Carol Oates
The shot / Eirc Rutter.
2016: The little men / Megan Abbott
Okay, now do you surrender? / Steve Almond
Toward the company of others / Matt Bell
Fool proof / Bruce Robert Coffin
Safety / Lydia Fitzpatrick
Christians / Tom Franklin
A death / Stephen King
For something to do / Elmore Leonard
The continental opposite / Evan Lewis
Street of the dead house / Robert Lopresti
Lafferty's ghost / Dennis McFadden
The tank yard / Michael Noll
Trash / Todd Robinson
Christmas Eve at the exit / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The mountain top / Georgia Ruth
Mailman / Jonathan Stone
Rearview mirror / Art Taylor
Border crossing / Susan Thornton
Entwined / Brian Tobin
God's plan for Dr. Gaynor and Hastings Chiume / Saral Waldorf.
2017: Puncher's chance / Doug Allyn
The master of Negwegon / Jim Allyn
The human variable / Dan Bevacqua
Power wagon / C.J. Box
Williamsville / Gerri Brightwell
Flight / Trina Corey
The incident of 10 November / Jeffery Deaver
The man from away / Brendan Dubois
GI Jack / Loren D. Estleman
Ike, Sharon, and me / Peter Ferry
Lovers and thieves / Charles John Harper
Land of the blind / Craig Johnson
The painted smile / William Kent Krueger
Dot rat / K. McGee
The woman in the window / Joyce Carol Oates
The sweet warm Earth / Steven Popkes
All things come around / William Soldan
The process is a process all it's own / Peter Straub
Night run / Wallace Stroby.
2018: Foreword / Otto Penzler
Introduction / Louise Penny
Banana triangle six / Louis Bayard
Y is for Yangchuan lizard / Andrew Bourelle
The designee / T.C. Boyle
Smoked / Michael Bracken
The wild side of life / James Lee Burke
Too much time / Lee Child
The third panel / Michael Connelly
Gun work / John M. Floyd
Cabin fever / David Edgerley Gates
Small signs / Charlaine Harris
Takeout / Rob Hart
Death in the Serengeti / David H. Hendrickson
All out yesterdays / Andrew Klavan
PX Christmas / Martin Limón
Windward / Paul D. Marks
Phantomwise: 1972 / Joyce Carol Oates
Rule number one / Alan Orloff
The apex predator / William Dylan Powell
Waiting on Joe / Scott Loring Sanders
Breadfruit / Brian Silverman.
2019: Foreword / Otto Penzler
Introduction / Jonathan Lethem
Coach O / Robert Hinderliter
The keepers of all sins / Sharon Hunt
Open house / Reed Johnson
A damn fine town / Arthur Klepchukov
The walk-in / Harley Jane Kozak
Top ten vacation selfies of YouTube stars / Preston Lang
Mastermind / Jared Lipof
That Donnelly crowd / Anne Therese Macdonald
The clown / Mark Mayer
Interpreting American Gothic / Rebecca McKanna
Hannah-beast / Jennifer McMahon
The archivist / Joyce Carol Oates
A box of hope / Brian Panowich
Payback / Tonya D. Price
If you say so / Suzanne Proulx
Neighbors / Ron Rash
Faint of heart / Amanda Rea
Lush / Duane Swierczynski
Inside man / Robb T. White
Burning down the house / Ted White
Contributor's notes
Other distinguished mystery stories of 2018.
2020: Justice / Pamela Blackwood
Home movie / Jerry M. Burger
Deportees / James Lee Burke
Second cousins / Michael Cebula
The surrogate initiative / Brian Cox
Shanty falls / Doug Crandell
The duelist / David Dean
Security / Jeffery Deaver
Rhonda and Clyde / John M. Floyd
On little Terry Road / Tom Franklin
See humble and die / Richard Helms
All this distant beauty / Ryan David Jahn
Miss Martin / Sheila Kohler
The most powerful weapon / Jake Lithua
Baddest outlaws / Rick McMahan
What ever happened to Lorna Winters? / Lisa Morton
Girl with an ax / John Sandford
Pretzel logic / David B. Schlosser
Nightbound / Wallace Stroby
The last hit / Robin Yocum.
Foreword / Otto Penzler
Introduction / Lee Child
30 and out / Doug Allyn
Things that follow / Jim Allyn
Blest be the tie that binds / Michael Bracken
Harbor lights / James Lee Burke
The locked cabin / Martin Edwards
Biloxi bound / John Floyd
That which is true / Jaqueline Freimor
The gift / Alison Gaylin
If you want something done right ... / Sue Grafton
The sixth decoy / Paul Kemprecos
The fifth step / Stephen King
The client / Janice Law
The truth about Lucy / Dennis McFadden
The adventure of the home office baby / David Marcum
Heatwave / Tom Mead
Requiem for a homecoming / David Morrell
Parole hearing, California Institution for women, Chino CA / Joyce Carol Oates
Law & other crimes / Sare Paretsky
Etta at the end of the world / Joseph S. Walker
The path I took / Andrew Welsh-Higgins
My favorite year / Ambrose Gwinnett Brice
The best mystery stories 2021 honor roll.
2022: Foreword / Otto Penzler
Introduction / Sara Paretsky
Kiss of life / Doug Allyn
A shooting in Rathreedane / Colin Barrett
White chocolate / Jerome Charyn
Avalon / Michael Connelly
Better Austens / Susan Frith
El cuerpo en el barril / Tom Larsen
October in Kauai / Sean Marciniak
Gun running on vacation / Stefon Mears
Sleigh bells for the Hayride / Keith Lee Morris
Violent devotion / Gwen Mullins
Black knight / Jo Nesbo
Detour / Joyce Carol Oates
Little city blues / Annie Reed
Grief spam / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
A heaven or a hell / Anna Scotti
Bang on the money / Ginny Swart
The influencer / Ellen Tremiti
Give or take a quarter inch / Joseph S. Walker
The Theresa job / Colson Whitehead
Where there's love / Michael Wiley
Bonus story. A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell.
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Published
Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997-.
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Language
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1094-8384
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