The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Penzler, Otto (Author), Pelecanos, George P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618812679 ISBN-13: 9780618812677 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: Edited by George Pelecanos, best-selling author and writer for the hit HBO series The Wire, this year's collection promises to deliver the same stellar caliber of mystery stories that readers have come to expect from this series. "A must-read for anyone who cares about crime stories" (Booklist), the collection is filled with talented new voices and veterans of fine writing. Contributors include James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, and Scott Wolven. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Best American Mystery Stories |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8" (1.00 lbs) 448 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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." |
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. |