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The Best American Mystery Stories
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Series: Best American
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0618812679
ISBN13: 9780618812677
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Oct 8 2008
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780618812677
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Oct 8 2008
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A must-read for anyone who cares about crime stories.--Booklist
The award-winning author and Emmy-nominated television writer George Pelecanos serves as editor of the twelfth installment of this genre-expanding anthology, featuring twenty of the past year's most enthralling, suspenseful, and slyly illuminating mystery stories. A cut-and-dried case for a wily crime-scene reconstructionist is turned on its head in Michael Connelly's Mulholland Dive. A terrible secret shared between two childhood friends resurfaces decades later as one of them lies on her deathbed in Alice Munro's masterful Child's Play. James Lee Burke tells the haunting tale of a Hurricane Katrina evacuee who unexpectedly finds comfort from an unimaginable loss in Mist. And in Holly Goddard Jones's Proof of God, a young man's car is repeatedly vandalized as proof that someone knows about the truths he'd never willingly reveal. As Pelecanos notes in his introduction, the twenty original and unique voices in this collection pay homage to the genre's forebears by taking crime fiction into a thrilling new direction. But make no mistake, he says, we are all standing on the shoulders of writers who came before us and left an indelible mark on literature through craftsmanship, care, and the desire to leave something of worth behind.
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