I love collections of stories because you get a chance to experience so many different stories in one book. All the stories were entertaining and a double plus that they revolved around my favorite subject, books!
The narrator did a terrific job adding even more life into the stories.

An lovely collection of short stories that revolve around books. An audiobook narrated by Daniel Thomas May, there is a story of a man's weakness to books, a man kidnapped in to help steal books, a couple of shady fellows , independent of each other, fighting over a very creepy scroll, and much more. Not all of the books revolve around mystery, at least one of the stories is more of a historical fiction than a mystery, but this is a pretty good overall read/listen.

The narrator did an amazing job with all of his different voices and accents. He has quite a bit of emotion in one of the stories and it brought up a few tears to me because you could almost here the frustration in the character.

It's a collection of short stories, entertaining and well written.
I loved the narrator that makes this stories come alive.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

This is an anthology of thirteen short stories all with a bookish theme. They were all fun and easy to listen to with great narration and storytelling. While some held my interest more than others, there weren't any I didn't enjoy.

I would recommend this anthology to anyone who enjoys mysteries.

content: 4 stars
narration: 5 stars

Bibliomysteries Volume 1 is an anthology of 13 short stories centering around a book, library, or bookstore. It is a collection of various mystery stories - some are murder mysteries, but not all. I'm not always in the mood for short stories or anthologies, but I like books about books. I listened to each short story separately. Some stories were excellent, while others didn't impress me much. But altogether, I would say it is still an audiobook worth listening to. I would rate content 3.5, rounded to 4. If you are a fan of mysteries, here is your chance to find some new authors to read.

The narration was very good. One narrator did all those different voices.

Thanks to the publisher for the opportunity to listen to this! All opinions are my own.

The World Of Books.....
The first volume of Bibliomysteries and a collection of thirteen entertaining tales from a variety of top notch authors including Deaver, Box, Perry and more. It’s a fun, well narrated listen spanning almost thirteen hours of listening time. The tales are obviously mixed bag but with the one bibliomystery theme running throughout. Something here for every book, bookshop and mystery book lover. Hugely enjoyable.

A highly entertaining collection of stories from some great authors.
This collection of audio stories from some great crime writers is a delight to listen to.
Lots of varied stories that keep you gripped and with lots of twists and turns along the way.
Excellently narrated and compulsive listening for a long journey.
Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to listen to in return for a review.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* ngl i dont care for short stories much but i did enjoy and really get into the stories in this book!

I am not a huge fan of anthologies but i am interested in bookish stories. So this book happened to serve the purpose. Audio narration is at par. Good for time well spent when you are doing something not very mind consuming.

This is a mystery anthology with stories from some very well known authors. There were some mystery writers as well as contemporary ones included. They were all written in 2011, 2012 and 2013, but were just complied into the volume by Otto Penzler in 2020. Each of the stories had something to do with books, bookshops, collectors, libraries etc. There were a couple of these stories that I wouldn't consider a mystery, but were still very good and fit in with the others well. I didn't enjoy them all the same, but there was only one that I didn't finish and that is because I do not enjoy that particular genre (hard-boiled detective) by Mickey Spillane. Several of these stories are set around WWII but are very different from one another. This was a collection that I savoured over a week or so, listening to one or two in the evenings. The narration by David Thomas May was very well done. He did a great job with the many voices using his expression and tone to share the emotion in the various stories. I definitely recommend this audiobook to those who enjoy a well-written mystery with various themes and settings.

"Bibliomysteries Volume 1" was a fun listen. I'll definitely recommend this to some patrons and friends.

EXCERPT: They'd met last night for the first time and now, mid-morning, they were finally starting to let go a bit, to relax, to trust each other. Almost to trust each other.
Such is the way it works when you are partnered with a stranger on a mission to kill. (An Acceptable Sacrifice by Jeffrey Deaver)
ABOUT 'BIBLIOMYSTERIES Volume One': If you open your dictionary, you will discover that there is no such word as “bibliomystery.” However, most mystery readers know that the word refers to a mystery story that involves the world of books: a bookshop, a rare volume, a library, a collector, or a bookseller.
The stories in this unique collection were commissioned by the Mysterious Bookshop. They were written by some of the mystery genre’s most distinguished authors.
Here you will discover Sigmund Freud dealing with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronting a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kingpin with a fatal weakness for rare books; and deadly secrets deep in the London Library; plus books with hidden messages, beguiling booksellers, crafty collectors, and a magical library that is guaranteed to enchant you.
MY THOUGHTS: This is a mostly excellent collection of short stories with books and mysteries at their centre. There is a mix of contemporary and historical fiction. There were a couple of stories that I felt weren't really mysteries at all, but the high quality of the others eclipsed them.
My favourite story was 'The Book of Virtue' by Ken Bruen; the story I liked the least was 'The Final Testament' by Peter Blaumer.
The stories are: An Acceptable Sacrifice by Jeffrey Deaver ⭐⭐⭐
Pronghorns of the Third Reich by C.J. Box ⭐⭐⭐
The Book of Virtue by Ken Bruen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Book of Ghosts by Reed Farrell Coleman ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Final Testament by Peter Blaumer ⭐⭐
What's in a Name by Thomas H. Cook ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Book Club by Lauren D. Estleman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Death Leaves a Bookmark by William Link ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Book Thing by Laura Lippman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Scroll by Anne Perry ⭐⭐⭐.5
It's In the Book by Mickey Spillane and Max Allen Collins ⭐⭐⭐.5
The Long Sonata of the Dead by Andrew Taylor ⭐⭐⭐.5
Rides a Stranger by David Bell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Caxton Lending Library and Book Depository by John Connolly ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
The Book Case by Nelson De Mille ⭐⭐⭐
David Thomas May did an excellent job of narrating the stories. He had an awful lot of different voices to portray and did so admirably.
Please note: some books are harmed in the telling of these stories
Overall a ⭐⭐⭐⭐.6 rating
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EDITOR: Otto Penzler is an editor of mystery fiction in the United States, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives.
Otto Penzler founded The Mysteriour Press in 1975 and was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years.
DISCLOSURE: Thank you to HighBridge Audio via Netgalley for providing an audio ARC of Bibliomysteries Volume 1 for review. Publication date 05 January 2021 All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.
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I enjoyed this collection of short stories about book-related mysteries. Usually, I’m not a fan of the short story because I don’t like being left feeling like a story was rushed or incomplete. However, these skilled writers each wrote robust and unique short stories that felt complete at their length. I was pleasantly surprised by this discovery. The narrator was skilled and did distinct voices, especially in stories set with characters from other countries (mainly in a historical fiction vibe).

Some of the transitions between stories felt abrupt, but either because the title was read quickly or I just missed the transition into a new story. Since the narrator was the same, it occasionally got me tangled up briefly at the beginning of a story. Not a big deal overall, since it was easy to figure out. It likely reads very smoothly in the printed version.

If I had to pick a favorite short story, it would probably be “The Ghost Book.” That story captured my attention from the beginning and held it the entire time.

Overall, I enjoyed this short story collection of mysteries with books as a focal point. I mean, what’s not to love about a bibliophile mystery?

Fun anthology! Some stories involve mysteries, some a dash of crime, some a smidgen of history, and all have a book feature! What's not to Love! These are great short stories in audiobook form to listen to on short walks or trips around town. The Narrator, Daniel Thomas May, differentiates the voice and dictions very well. He does an excellent job! The featured authors are Jeffery Deaver, C.J. Box, Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, Peter Blauner, Thomas H. Cook, Loren D. Estleman, William Link, Laura Lippman, Anne Perry, Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, Andrew Taylor, David Bell

This audiobook has thirteen mystery stories by well known authors which were commissioned by The Mysterious Bookshop, all involving books in some way. I found the book was perfect for my daily walks which are usually one to one and a half hours, the approximate length of the stories. I have to admit that I had to finish the story immediately, even if my walk was over! The narrator, Daniel Thomas May is great! I could understand every word, and his voice was great to listen to. Some of the stories were more mysterious than others, and several had very surprising endings.

The authors include Jeffrey Deaver, C. J. Box, Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, Peter Blauner, Thomas H. Cook, Loren Estleman, William Link, Laura Lippman, Anne Perry, Micky Spillane and Max Allen Collins, Andrew Taylor, and Daniel Bell. The stories are very different. Some include well known characters such as Micky Spillane's Hammer and Velda, Laura Lippman's Tess Monahan, and Peter Blauner story about Freud. Other characters are ordinary people, gangsters, hired killers, Jewish refugees, and book groups. Several of the stories included murder. What's not to love when it's mysteries about books?

I thank Netgalley and HighBridge Audio for allowing me access to listen to and review the audiobook.

The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

The presentation of each story was great and the reading of these stories deserves a five
The reason for a four is that most of the stories are a solid four but some were more in a 3 star category. But I enjoyed them all. I do suggest you take some time between each story otherwise they tend to blend into each other. Made the mistake of listening to the first three in one sitting and realized I was getting confused. After that I took a minimum of half an hour in-between which gave me some time to digest and go over in my mind what I had heard.
The average story is less than an hour. Every story has the theme of books.
In order to make it easier to follow I copied some of the information from amazon that you can read on the individual printed version. I have listed them in the same order as presented in the audio and gave my own star rating with each one. On some I added a one line comment to the copied information

1. *** Jeffery Deaver An Acceptable Sacrifice
A pair of federal agents from either side of the US–Mexico border target a cartel kingpin.
They call him “Cuchillo,” the Knife. Not because he kills with a blade—he has plenty of men to do that kind of work for him—but because his mind is so sharp. As Mexico’s government wages war on the drug cartels, it takes brains to survive, and Cuchillo has not just survived—he has prospered. But when Cuchillo begins to cut too deeply, the federal police of both the United States and Mexico step in to dull his blade. P. Z. Evans and Alejo Díaz know the Hermosillo cartel is planning an attack on a tourist bus in Sonora, and they know they will have to capture or kill Cuchillo to stop it. The cartel leader has one weakness: rare, old books. To destroy the intellectual’s evil empire, this unlikely pair of international police will have to appeal to his inner bibliophile.

2. *** C. J. Box Pronghorns of the Third Reich
In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany.
Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer’s house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker’s day has started badly and is going to get much worse. Once a fine lawyer, Parker’s enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals like Lyle are part of the reason for his disillusionment. Years after they last saw each other in court, Lyle is convinced that Parker owes him something. At gunpoint, Lyle and Juan make Parker lead them to the old Angler ranch, to open up a hidden library whose volumes hold the secret to forgotten riches, and the strangest war profiteering scheme to ever come out of the Great Plains.

3. *** Ken Bruen The Book of Virtue
With his hated father dead, a man’s life takes a dangerous turn.
He doesn’t cry when his father, Frank, dies. The old man was an abusive, self-absorbed drunk, and when cancer takes him to his deathbed, his son is there to watch. At Frank’s final moment he leans over and whispers in his ear, letting the dying man know that he’s glad to see him go. His only inheritance is a heavy, leather-bound book. He has never seen it before, and has trouble believing that his brutal, ignorant father ever touched something so beautiful. But the volume is well-thumbed, full of aphorisms and advice written in the dead man’s hand. Soon after he reads it, the son finds his life spiraling out of control. If he doesn’t want to follow Daddy to the grave, he had best heed the lessons of the book.

4. **** Reed Farrel Coleman The Book of Ghosts
The lie that bought Jacob Weisen a new life cannot help him escape the past.
Birkenau could not kill Jacob Weisen. He survived the death camp and made his way to America, where he became famous telling the story of Isaac Becker, an author who was tortured to death when the guards caught him writing down his story. Becker’s manuscript was lost, but by telling the tale, Weisen keeps his memory alive. No other witnesses survived—and Weisen is the only person who knows his famous story is a lie. In fact, Weisen was a collaborator, who led his countrymen to the ovens and gave Becker up to the SS. Decades after the war, as his lies begin to unravel, he must choose between admitting the truth and dying in a hell of his own creation.

5. **** Peter Blauner The Final Testament
As World War II draws near, a dying genius fights against hate to preserve his legacy.
Cancer has ravaged Sigmund Freud. It is 1938, and the great doctor has fled Vienna for London, where he races to finish his final, most dangerous work: a radical reimagining of the origins of Judaism, which posits that Moses was murdered by his followers. Though his colleagues say that such a controversial text could only give grist to those who would do the Jews harm, Freud is adamant about releasing the book—until a Nazi named Sauerwald comes to visit.
He has written a manuscript in Freud’s name, a hateful screed that claims to prove that all of Jewish history is based on falsehood, and asks that Freud help him have it published—lest something unpleasant happen to the doctor’s family in Austria. Horrified by this foul threat, Freud responds with the only weapon he has left. He picks up pen and paper and suggests that Sauerwald sit down on his couch.

6. **** Thomas H. Cook What's in a Name?
This is a bit of alternate history. Think World war one and the driving force of World War two (what if)
Five decades after war’s end, a rare-books dealer receives a strange visitor.
The guns went silent on November 11, 1918, never to fire again. Throughout the 1920s, unrest seethed across Europe, and Fascists battled Communists in the streets of Berlin, but democracy won out. For years, peace has prevailed around the world. But there is a part of Franklin Altman that misses the war.
A rare-books dealer living in New York City, Altman has devoted his life to studying the history of the Weimar Republic, when all of Europe hung in the balance and it seemed it would take but a single spark to set the world ablaze. Why did that spark never come?
Altman is musing on these questions one evening when a man comes into his shop. An aged German veteran with a limp and the faint shakes of Parkinson’s, he is about to teach Altman that in history, the devil is in the details.

7. *** Loren D. Estleman Book Club
When a bibliophile is murdered, it takes a bookseller to solve the crime.
Good Advice, New Mexico, is a sunny town with a gloomy bookshop. The store’s eerie corridors are the province of Avery Sharecross, an ex-cop who has made the transition from chasing killers to tracking rare books. One afternoon, the local sheriff interrupts his book club meeting, and Sharecross’s old career collides with his new one. The area’s premier book collector has been found bludgeoned to death on the floor of his family library. A fifth-generation resident of Good Advice, Lloyd Fister devoted his life to books, accumulating a collection of local history that date backs to the sixteenth century. In his library, a single volume is missing: a Spanish book with a sinister past. Is the missing volume a clue, a motive, or a murder weapon? It will take a collector’s eye to decide.

8. **** William Link Death Leaves a Bookmark
Attempting the perfect murder, a killer encounters the perfect cop in this short story by Special Edgar Award and Ellery Queen Award–winning author William Link.
After years of get-rich-quick schemes, Troy Pellingham’s bank account is empty and his options are down to one: take a job in his uncle’s rare book shop, and spend his days working for an unpleasant man whose only redeeming quality is a mammoth bank account. Though well into his eighties, Uncle Rodney is the picture of good health, and the day when Troy will inherit the old man’s money seems very far away. But then Troy gets a brilliant idea—why shelve books for a living, when he can kill for a fortune? After the deed is done, a peculiarly shabby police detective comes to call. Lieutenant Columbo seems dimwitted, and Troy expects he will have no trouble putting him off the scent. But as the noose tightens around his neck, Troy realizes that no murder is too perfect for Columbo.

9. ***** Laura Lippman The Book Thing
A thief targets a local bookstore and it will take a bibliophile PI to save the shop.
Tess Monaghan wants to like the Children’s Bookstore. It’s bright, cozy, and packed with the kinds of books that she is dying for her daughter to fall in love with. But no matter how badly she wants to support this adorable local business, the owner’s attitude stops her in her tracks. What kind of children’s bookseller hates children? What’s eating Octavia, the grouchy owner, is more than the pressures of running a small business. Each Saturday, someone steals a stack of her priciest, most beautiful children’s books, and the expense threatens to force her fledgling store out of business. Luckily, Tess is more than a book lover—she’s a private investigator who doesn’t mind working pro bono to help out an independent bookshop. Her simple act of kindness will make Octavia smile for the first time in months— and uncover a crime more suitable for the mystery aisle than the children’s section.

10. **** Anne Perry The Scroll
An ancient scroll draws a bookseller into a chilling mystery.
Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Danforth tries to photocopy and photograph it, but he ends up with blank images, as though the ink were made of something impervious to modern technology. As the scroll’s mystery enchants him, this hapless bookseller falls into a cutthroat conspiracy that he may never escape. Soon a dead-eyed old man and his granddaughter come calling for the scroll. Danforth refuses to sell them the manuscript, but they will not be the last to demand it. Powerful forces crave the secrets locked within this ancient document, and Danforth will survive only if he can master its power.

11. **** Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins It's in the Book
Mike Hammer tears apart New York in search of a dead don’s ledger.
For years, cops have whispered legends that Don Nicholas Giraldi, the gentleman godfather, kept a ledger going back decades, keeping track of every police officer, mogul, and politician who took even a cent of his dirty money. Finding the register would put mayors, senators, and even a president or two on the hook for prosecution—or blackmail. When old Nic finally kicks the bucket, one such official comes to Mike Hammer and begs him to find the book before it falls into the wrong hands.
Mike has never believed the stories of the old don’s journal, but for $10,000, he is happy to play along. Every hood in town wants to get his hands on the book, and finding it will mean pushing to the very heart of Nic’s family. No matter how many years may have passed, Mike Hammer can still push harder.

12. **** Andrew Taylor The Long Sonata of the Dead
Surprising end, I really felt bad for Tony
In pursuit of the find of a lifetime, an academic confronts an old rival.
Once visited by the likes of Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and George Eliot, the London Library is a maze of books—a jumble of first editions and forgotten texts. For Tony, it is a refuge from the failure his life has become—and it is about to be invaded by a destructive old friend.
Adam is a world-renowned novelist who spends so much time writing articles and appearing in documentaries that it seems impossible he actually has time to write books. He visits the library to research a nearly-forgotten English poet, Francis Youlgreave, who just happens to be Tony’s obsession. Tony has staked his career on the long-dead clergyman, and will do whatever it takes to keep Adam from stealing his research. In this ghostly library, scholarly conflict is anything but academic.

13. **** David Bell Rides a Stranger
After the death of his father, a literature professor is drawn into the murder investigation of a bookstore proprietor. Though Don and his father both love books, their tastes couldn’t be more different. Don is a scholar, and his father reads nothing but schlock. His house is full of dime paperbacks, battered thrillers, and case after case of western novels, none of which his son could ever bear to read. At his father’s funeral, Don is approached by a strange man, a rare book dealer named Lou Caledonia. Don assumes the man wants to buy his dad’s old westerns, but Lou explains that something far more important is on the line. Don finds the cramped confines of Lou’s used bookstore immensely comforting, but a surprise waits for him downstairs. Caledonia has been shot dead, and Don is in danger, too. The boy who was too smart to read pulp fiction is about to find himself trapped in a thriller of his own.

I was sure that a collection of short stories by some of my favorite authors would be a sure hit. Add in that it is called Bibliomysteries? Mysteries involving books? Yes! However, I think it is slightly misnamed. There are books present in all of the stories. They are not all mysteries and they do not all really revolve around books.

So, there were some good and some bad. That is always the case with any anthology. And the ones I enjoyed will not be the same as others enjoyed. If I were reading this myself instead of listening to the audiobook I don't know what I would have rated it. However, I have to consider the narrator as a saving point on every story I didn't enjoy. He was above and beyond in creating character voices to differentiate. So, even in the testosterone filled selections that I did not like so much, he made them slightly better. I recently followed a thread about ridiculous ways male authors describe women in their books and I think I could add a few from this one.

I enjoyed old favorites like Laura Lippman and Anne Perry. I got to meet a few new favorites. And I was disappointed by a few well known. If you like books and mysteries, though, you are sure to find something in here to like. And you will enjoy the narrator. One extra star for him.

This is a collection of stories all themed to include reference to books - from book dealers, to book lovers, to mysterious ancient texts.

Like all short story compilations I had some clear favourites, but I’m happy to report that all of these stories were strong in their own way. It’s difficult to complete a rounded and full feeling tale when you’re restricted in word count, but the authors have managed to create some really excellent pieces.

The audiobook is really well narrated and I found myself stealing time to dive back in.

All of the stories felt quite traditional and had a distinct noir feel. Most were action packed and kept me listening for hours!

This is an excellent audiobook, perfect for lovers of mysteries and especially of mysteries featuring books. Comprised of fourteen short stories by a star studded list of authors, expertly narrated by Daniel Thomas May, every story featured a mystery involving a book, library or bookshop and in one case an ancient scroll. All were very original and totally different from each other, sometimes featuring well loved investigators (such as Columbo and Mike Hammer) or historical characters (such as Sigmund Freud). I'd be hard pressed to name a favourite as I enjoyed them all very much. Listening to them while doing my Christmas baking made that task added very much to the pleasure of that task. I was also pleased to note there is a volume 2 of Bibliomysteries and hope that will also be available as an audiobook in the future.

Bibliomysteries (Volume 1 ) by Jeffery Deaver, C.J. Box, Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, Peter Blauner, Thomas H. Cook, Loren D. Estleman, William Link, Laura Lippman, Anne Perry, Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, Andrew Taylor, David Bell
Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
Originally Published: August, 2017 Edited by: Otto Penzler
Publication Date: January 5, 2021
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Description from Publisher...
“If you open your dictionary, you will discover that there is no such word as “bibliomystery.” However, most mystery readers know that the word refers to a mystery story that involves the world of books: a bookshop, a rare volume, a library, a collector, or a bookseller.

Here you will discover Sigmund Freud dealing with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronting a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kingpin with a fatal weakness for rare books; and deadly secrets deep in the London Library; plus books with hidden messages, beguiling booksellers, crafty collectors, and a magical library.”
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Thank you to @NetGalley @highbridgeaudio for the ALC in return for my honest review.
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My thoughts...
If you like mystery/thriller short stories, and any of the above authors, then you might enjoy this collection. I liked the idea that each short story had something to do with books. Not all stories were “whodunnits,” others were thriller, psychological thriller or just mystery in a sense of “the end...or is it?” The narrator was good in that his range of accents, voices and story interpretations were great. However, a couple of the stories sounded bland and a couple sounded like a radio-crime play (that could be fun). Overall, it was a good listen with some really good stories.