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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 by Sara Paretsky - editor and introduction

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022

Sara Paretsky - editor and introduction, Otto Penzler - series editor, Daniel Thomas May

The Mysterious Press · Print & ebook · September 27, 2022

A Mystery pick for readers exploring The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022.

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Who it’s for
A year-end mystery sampler with a serious edge and a tidy, browseable shape.
Genres
Mystery Anthologies, Short Story Anthologies
Published
The Mysterious Press, September 27, 2022

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About this book

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

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Includes stories by: - Doug Allyn - Colin Barrett - Jerome Charyn - Michael Connelly - Susan Frith - Tom Larsen - Sean Marciniak - Stefon Mears - Kieth Lee Morris - Gwen Mullins - Jo Nesbo - Joyce Carol Oates - Annie Reed - Kristen Kathryn Rusch - Anna Scotti - Ginny Swart - Ellen Tremiti - Joseph S. Walker - Colson Whitehead - Michael Wiley Plus a bonus vintage story from the annals of mystery fiction, written over a century in the past.

Mystery Sampler

A year-end mystery sampler with a serious edge and a tidy, browseable shape.

Come here for

  • Short-story mystery sampling
  • Collector-friendly annual selection

Expect

  • Crime and murder themes
  • Anthology pace, story by story

Where it sits

Mystery Anthologies100%
Short Story Anthologies62%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Mystery Anthologies
  • Private Eye Fiction
  • Amateur Sleuths
Authors
Sara Paretsky - editor and introduction, Otto Penzler - series editor, Daniel Thomas May
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Published
September 27, 2022
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Mystery Anthologies