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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021

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A Wall Street Journal holiday 2021 pick

A Suspense Magazine Best Book of the Year

Lee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more.

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 Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

Includes stories by:

  • Alison Gaylin
  • David Morrell
  • James Lee Burke
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Martin Edwards
  • Sara Paretsky
  • Stephen King
  • Sue Grafton (with a new, posthumously-published work!)

And many more!

ISBN-13: 9781613162385

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Penzler Publishers

Publication Date: 09-14-2021

Pages: 451

Product Dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Series: Best Mystery Stories #1

Lee Child is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers. All his novels have been optioned for major motion pictures, and foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. He lives in New York City. Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of the Mysterious Press (1975); Mysterious Press.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from Noircon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.