
Book
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022
A Collection
Jess Walter, Steph Cha, Brendan Williams-Childs
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 1, 2022
Reading lane: Mystery Anthologies
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
Tight, Strange Turns
A compact set of tense, genre-blending stories to read a few at a time.
Come here for
- short-story variety
- genre-crossing suspense
Expect
- mystery, fantasy, sci-fi
- collection browsing, not one long arc
Book Details
- Authors
- Jess Walter, Steph Cha, Brendan Williams-Childs
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- November 1, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Mystery Anthologies · Sci-Fi Short Stories
- Reading lane
- Mystery Anthologies
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Publisher Categories
Short Story Anthologies
Literary Fiction
Mystery Anthologies
International Crime Fiction
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Romantic Suspense
Short Stories (Single Author)
Suspense
Crime Fiction
About This Book
A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha. New York Times bestselling author and “superb storyteller” ( Boston Globe ), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty short stories that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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