A best-selling novelist and Edgar Award winner, Lisa Scottoline brings her mastery of the thriller genre as well as her wit and heart to this collection of the must-reads in mysteries.
A best-selling novelist and Edgar Award winner, Lisa Scottoline brings her mastery of the thriller genre as well as her wit and heart to this collecti...
With so many great authors contributing to this fiction collection . . . it doesn t take detecting skills to discover the gem. And every story dazzles . . . These stories, in prose both elegant and compelling, get to the heart of why people do what they do. USA Today
The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 will be selected by writing powerhouse (USAToday) Laura Lippman. With her popularTess Monaghan series and her New York Times best-selling standalone novels, Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of modern mystery fiction and psychological...
With so many great authors contributing to this fiction collection . . . it doesn t take detecting skills to discover the gem. And every story ...
In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that s the case, I ve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later. Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Hollywood production. Spanning the extremes of human behavior, The Best American Mystery Stories2015features characters that must make desperate choices: an imaginative bank-robbing couple, a vengeful high school shooter, a lovesick heiress who will...
In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that s the case, I ve got on...
"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...
"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...
"A venerable series . . . there isn't enough Xanax in anyone's medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these twenty skillful stories will unleash." --Kirkus Reviews
Number-one New York Times best-selling author John Sandford--"one of the great summer-read novelists of all time" (Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly)--selects the best mystery writing of the year that "will have you on the edge of your seat" (USA Today).
"A venerable series . . . there isn't enough Xanax in anyone's medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these twenty skillful stories will unleash." --...