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Best Crime Stories of the Year Volume 2

Representing some of the foremost contemporary crime writers, the 20 short stories in this collection were selected by international bestseller Sara Paretsky. Diverse in theme, they feature a firearm incident in rural Ireland and a book club whose members are all executioners, and include contributions from Jo Nesbø and Joyce Carol Oates. Off-mint
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  • Publisher: Head of Zeus
  • Year: 2022
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 552pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 240x156mm
  • ISBN: 9781804548691
  • Condition: New - Acceptable
  • Weight: 0.8kg
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International bestselling author Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more in this crime connoisseur's collection.

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 and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume. The classic mystery tale will be familiar to aficionados and casual readers alike: it was invented by Edgar Allen Poe, popularised by Arthur Conan Doyle, and perfected by Agatha Christie. WIthin a few pages, a clue can be discovered, divulged, and its significance determined: all else is mere embellishment.

Featuring stories by: Doug Allyn, Colin Barrett, Jerome Charyn, Michael Connelly, Susan Frith, Tom Larsen, Sean Marciniak, Stefon Mears, Keith Lee Morris, Gwen Mullins, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Reed, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anna Scotti, Ginny Swart, Ellen Tremiti, Joseph S. Walker, Colson Whitehead, and Michael Wiley - plus a bonus vintage story from the annals of mystery fiction, written over a century in the past.
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