| The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Penzler, Otto (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618517472 ISBN-13: 9780618517473 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Best American Mystery Stories |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.54" W x 8.22" (0.83 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: [Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you. -- from the introduction by Scott Turow Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Elmore Leonard tells the tale of a young woman who's fled home with a convicted bank robber. Walter Mosley describes an over-the-hill private detective and his new client, a woman named Karma. C. J. Box explores the fate of two Czech immigrants stranded by the side of the road in Yellowstone Park. Ed McBain begins his story on role-playing with the line 'Why don't we kill somebody?' she suggested. Wendy Hornsby tells of a wild motorcycle chase through the canyons outside Las Vegas. Laura Lippman describes the Crack Cocaine Diet. And James Lee Burke writes of a young boy who may have been a close friend of Bugsy Siegel. As Scott Turow notes in his introduction, these stories are about crime -- its commission, its aftermath, its anxieties, its effect on character. The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 is a powerful collection for all readers who enjoy fiction that deals with the extremes of human passion and its dark consequences. |
Contributor Bio(s): Penzler, Otto: - OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York's The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He lives in New York. |