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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 by S.A. Cosby

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024

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S.A. Cosby, Steph Cha

HarperCollins · Ebook · October 22, 2024

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S.

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Who it’s for
A year’s best-of collection where mystery and suspense arrive in compact, unexpectedly haunting forms.
Genres
Mystery Anthologies, Short Story Anthologies, Suspense
Published
HarperCollins, October 22, 2024

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About this book

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears, and series editor Steph Cha. In his introduction, guest editor S. A. Cosby observes that writing short stories is “a special skill that combines brevity with wit and cleverness and the hint of the existential malaise that imbues crime fiction with its gravitas.”

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The stories in this col-lection overflow with gravitas in the most unexpected ways: a cryptic note left on a windshield, a murder for hire meets a game of Mouse Trap, a swipe right on a dating app goes horribly wrong. From an eleven-year-old drawn to the neighborhood spookhouse to a scholarship kid at an exclusive boarding school, a nefarious Old West gunman to a Florida woman’s struggle against both outer and inner demons, the characters in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 are haunted and haunting, and wholly unforgettable. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 includes MEGAN ABBOTT • ALYSSA COLE • TANANARIVE DUE • ABBY GENI • JORDAN HARPER • GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD •TONI LP KELNER • BOBBY MATHEWS • LISA UNGER • and others

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A year’s best-of collection where mystery and suspense arrive in compact, unexpectedly haunting forms.

Come here for

  • A varied collection of mystery and suspense short fiction
  • Crime stories that pair clever turns with existential weight

Expect

  • Quick shifts among memorable characters and situations
  • Brevity, wit, and crime-fiction gravitas

Where it sits

Mystery Anthologies98%
Short Story Anthologies65%
Suspense54%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Short Story Anthologies
  • Horror
  • Literary Fiction
  • Mystery Anthologies
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  • Short Stories (Single Author)
  • Suspense
  • Crime Fiction
  • Psychological Thrillers
Authors
S.A. Cosby, Steph Cha
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
October 22, 2024
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Short Story Anthologies