Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country"s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Assembled by best-selling suspense author Nelson DeMille, The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 contains a spectacular array of stories by mystery veterans and talented newcomers. Follow a chain reaction that saves a woman"s life, visit a house haunted by a husband"s violent killing spree, enter the high-stakes world of Las Vegas gambling, watch the line between reality and dream blur, travel with a bored salesman driven to crime, and much more. Encompassingall aspects of the genre, this year"s selections are sure to quicken pulses, send chills down the spine, and keep readers continually guessing.
Download or read book Best American Mystery Stories 2005 written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the genre's finest from the past year. With stories from mystery veterans and newly discovered talents, this thrilling collection is sure to appeal to crime fiction fans of all tastes.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 written by Elizabeth George and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthony Award–winning author presents a “highly readable” anthology featuring mysteries by Stephen King, Megan Abbott, Elmore Leonard and more (Publishers Weekly). “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 comeuppance; stories that utilize superb point of view; stories that plumb one particular and unfortunate attribute of a character,” promises guest editor Elizabeth George in her introduction. The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 is a feast of both literary crime and hard-boiled detection, featuring a seemingly innocent murderer, a drug dealer in love, a drunken prank gone terribly wrong, and plenty of other surprising twists and turns. The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 includes entries by Steve Almond, Megan Abbott, Matt Bell, Lydia Fitzpatrick, Tom Franklin, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and others. “There isn’t enough Xanax in anyone’s medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these 20 skillful stories will unleash on a worried world.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 written by John Sandford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author presents a thrilling anthology of devious crimes with stories by C. J. Box, Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates and more. “Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshit—although there’s always a little, just to grease the wheels,” writes guest editor John Sandford in his introduction to this action-packed volume of mystery fiction. From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underworld, and from kidnapping and adultery in the Hollywood Hills to a serial killer loose in a nursing home, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 hosts an entertaining abundance of crime, psychological suspense, and bad intentions. The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 includes entries by C.J. Box, Gerri Brightwell, Jeffery Deaver, Brendan DuBois, Trina Corey, Craig Johnson, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, and others.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 written by Harlan Coben and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors present a collection of the best mystery writing culled from a variety of sources.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 written by Otto Penzler and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year's best mystery short fiction. Jonathan Lethem, "one of America's greatest storytellers" (Washington Post), selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).
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Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century written by Otto Penzler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unparalleled treasury of American 19th century mystery fiction selected and introduced by Otto Penzler.
Download or read book The Mysteries of Pittsburgh written by Michael Chabon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 written by James Patterson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mega best-selling mystery and thriller novelist James Patterson edits a collection of the best mystery writing.
Download or read book Classic Mystery Stories written by Douglas G. Greene and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen classics devoted to genuine tale of ratiocination. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Charles Dickens' "Three Detective Anecdotes," Jack London's "The Leopard Man Story," 10 others. Introduction. Notes.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 written by Louise Penny and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the best mystery short stories published in 2017 selected by best-selling author Louise Penny.
Download or read book The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories written by Otto Penzler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty great whodunnits from the first decade of this series, edited by the award-winning editor and founder of the Mysterious Press. This anthology collects the top twenty stories from the first decade (1997–2006) of The Best American Mystery Stories, selected and introduced by Otto Penzler. Contributors include Russell Banks, Jeffrey Deaver, Louise Erdrich, Brendan DuBois, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, Lou Manfredo, Ed McBain, Joyce Carol Oates, Scott Turow, and many others.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 written by C. J. Box and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year's 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 the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).
Download or read book Needle in a Haystack written by Ernesto Mallo and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not simply a triumph of style; it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery. Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize. This man knows. He knows about guns, knows about women...
Download or read book Books to Die For written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s most beloved mystery writers celebrate their favorite mystery novels in this gorgeously wrought collection, featuring essays by Michael Connelly, Kathy Reichs, Ian Rankin, and more. In the most ambitious anthology of its kind, the world’s leading mystery writers come together to champion the greatest mystery novels ever written. In a series of personal essays that reveal as much about the authors and their own work as they do about the books that they love, over a hundred authors from twenty countries have created a guide that will be indispensable for generations of readers and writers. From Agatha Christie to Lee Child, from Edgar Allan Poe to P. D. James, from Sherlock Holmes to Hannibal Lecter and Philip Marlowe to Lord Peter Wimsey, Books to Die For brings together the best of the mystery world for a feast of reading pleasure, a treasure trove for those new to the genre and for those who believe that there is nothing new left to discover. This is the one essential book for every reader who has ever finished a mystery novel and thought…I want more!
