The Best American Mystery Stories 2018
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HarperCollins · Ebook · October 2, 2018
#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year.
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- Who it’s for
- Twenty short mysteries make room for fresh turns, sharp suspense, and no hiding.
- Genres
- Mystery Anthologies, Short Story Anthologies, Suspense
- Published
- HarperCollins, October 2, 2018
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#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year. Writing short stories takes “Skill. Discipline. Knowledge of the form while not being formulaic,” contends Louise Penny in her introduction. “In a short story there is nowhere to hide. Each must be original, fresh, inspired.”
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Originality is just what’s in store for readers of the twenty clever, creative selections in The Best American Mystery Stories 2018. There’s no hiding from a Nigerian confidence game, a drug made of dinosaur bones, a bombing at an oil company, a reluctant gunfighter in the Old West, and the many other scams, dangers, and thrills lurking in its suspenseful pages. The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 includes T. C. Boyle, James Lee Burke, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Charlaine Harris, Andrew Klavan, Martin Limón, Joyce Carol Oates, and others.
Mystery in Miniature
Twenty short mysteries make room for fresh turns, sharp suspense, and no hiding.
Come here for
- A sampler of crime and mystery from an ensemble of established writers
- The pleasures of short fiction: originality without room to hide
Expect
- Scams, dangers, and suspense across twenty selections
- A range of clever, creative stories, not one continuous plot
Where it sits
| Mystery Anthologies | 99% |
|---|---|
| Short Story Anthologies | 52% |
| Suspense | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- Mystery Anthologies
- American Literary Collections
- Essay Collections
- Authors
- Louise Penny, Otto Penzler
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 2, 2018
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies