This is a really good collection of mystery stories. I found a few authors that I have not read and will be looking for more of their stuff

Excellent selection of short mystery detective stories by well known authors. LIttle blurbs add some info from each author about motivation or references. Some high profile authors and some I didn't know - good selection of stories.

Good anthology because it has variety and good writing of well crafted mysteries. This should satisfy most mystery fans Recommended.

I really appreciate the free ARC for review!!

Here is this year’s edition of a perennial favorite, this time edited by Sara Paretsky. There is a good selection within these pages. Just some of the featured authors include Michael Connelly, Joyce Carol Oates and Colson Whitehead. Many of the other authors were new discoveries for me. I especially enjoyed Better Austens by Susan Frith.

In addition, the book begins with two introductions. Readers get to find out what both the venerable Otto Penzler and favorite author, Sara Paretsky have to share.

I tend to gravitate to novels over short stories but sometimes a shorter read is better. For those times, there is a lot to enjoy here.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Otto Penzler Publishing for this title. All opinions are my own.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022.

I'm always wary of anthologies and short story collections; I end up only liking one or two; three or four if I'm lucky.

But, I'm happy to report that I enjoyed most of the stories collected here; there are a diverse range of authors featuring electic themes, subject matter and interesting characters.

Some of my favorites include the one from Jo Nesbo (no surprise since I'm a fan of his); Better Austens by Susan Firth, Grief Spam by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Violent Devotion by Gwen Mullins, A Heaven or a Hell by Anna Scotti, and Detour by Joyce Carol Oates.

You get the feel for each author's writing style, their tone and how they develop their characters in a particular scenario.

Some stories are longer than others and this collection is a hefty one.

The best thing I like about anthologies is that I can read one or two, put the book down and read something else and come back to this later.

I recommend this collection for any mystery or short story collection connoisseur.

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. And I loved them all. So much so I now going back to find last years volume and read it. This book included some of my favorite writers at their finest. If you are a fan of short mystery stories you will love this book. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced readers copy for review.

This is a solid collection of stories on a wide range of topics, set in the past, present, and future, and written in a variety of styles.

My own preference in mysteries generally runs to longer, darker, more complex stories. I marked five favorites as I read--Nesbo and Connelly from among the most famous writers, and Allyn, Larsen, and Marciniak as three authors new to me. My favorite story was probably Nesbo's, maybe not a surprise since I've read the entire Harry Hole series, but this story is written in a very different style.

Discovering the quality of this collection has made me want to read the previous year's first entry in the series.

Thanks to Penzler Publications and NetGalley for the advance copy to read and review.

This is an excellent and diverse anthology of 20 of the best mystery short stories of the past year. Stories have been edited and selected by Sara Paretsky and Otto Penzler. There is such a variety that prospective readers should find a number of thrilling short stories to enjoy. There is information about the author at the beginning of the story and a short article at the end on what inspired the story. As an added bonus there is a mystery written over 100 years ago. The topics include mob activity, robberies, detective investigations, hit men, psychological and domestic thrillers, and a unique story about a book club whose members are women hired to carry out executions.

Some writers are well known. There are selections by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colson Whitehead. I was unfamiliar with the majority of the talented writers, This is an excellent source, providing an incentive for becoming acquainted with the works of writers previously unknown to me.

My favourites included: Better Austens by Susan Firth, Grief Spam by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Violent Devotion by Gwen Mullins, Little City Blues by Annie Reed, A Heaven or a Hell by Anna Scotti, and the short story by Joyce Carol Oates. That I have chosen six memorable stories as my favourites makes this a very enjoyable and successful anthology and there are several more I could have chosen. Because of the diversity in the and types of mysteries, other readers might have an entirely different list, but I believe there are some selections that will keep them engaged and entertained.

My thanks to NetGalley, Penzler Publications and W.W. Norton & Company for an advance copy of this book.

A great collection of superb mystery stories by some very talented authors. I'll definitely be checking out more works from some these authors. So glad I got this collection.

This is a good collection of mystery stories. As with all collections, there are some that are better than others.

This book was sent to me by Netgalley for review…mystery stories at their best…great authors who weave tales that are ingenious. Enjpy

There was some controversy a few years back regarding Otto Penzler's disregard for diversity in his best of collection. With that in mind, I was curious to see how this new reiteration dealt with finding an array of voices. Not bad, but still much work to do in that regard. Sara Paretsky was a wonderful choice of editor, and in fact addressed the controversy head-on in her foreword, where she spoke about the effort to find diverse voices. I particularly enjoyed the short asides from each author explaining how they'd come to write their piece. Here you'll find some familiar wordsmiths: Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colson Whitehead. But also, some less-familiar voices with something of import to say. I especially enjoyed the stories by Keith Lee Morris and Michael Wiley.