Overview
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 yearās 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 Connellyās āMulholland Dive.ā A terrible secret shared between two childhood friends resurfaces decades later as one of them lies on her deathbed in Alice Munroās masterful āChildās Play.ā James Lee Burke tells the haunting tale of a Hurricane Katrina evacuee who unexpectedly finds comfort from an unimaginable loss in āMist.ā And in Holly Goddard Jonesās āProof of God,ā a young manās car is repeatedly vandalized as proof that someone knows about the truths heād never willingly reveal.
As Pelecanos notes in his introduction, the twenty āoriginal and unique voicesā in this collection pay homage to the genreās forebears by taking crime fiction into a thrilling new direction. āBut make no mistake,ā he says, āwe 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.ā
This book title, The Best American Mystery Stories 2008, ISBN: 9780618812677, by Otto Penzler, George Pelecanos, published by HMH Books (October 8, 2008) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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