Edgar Award winner Otto Penzlerââdetective fictionâs best editor and championâ (The Washington Post )âreturns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembl...
A collection of the yearâs best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects...
#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...
What you ll find in this volume are stories that demonstrate a mastery of plotting; stories that compel you to keep turning the pages because of plot and because of setting; stories that wield suspense like a sword; stories of people getting their comeupp...
In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . If thatâs the case, Iâve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later....
"With so many great authors contributing to this fiction collection . . it doesnât take detecting skills to discover the gem. And every story dazzles . . These stories, in prose both elegant and compelling, get to the heart of why...
The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled ⢠The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime storiesâfrom Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to Sara Paretsky...
Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight trainâa bullet couldnât pass through it. Here are the best stories...