The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021

by Lee Child; Otto Penzler (editors)

Narrated by Matt Godfrey; Emily Sutton-Smith

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Pub Date Sep 14 2021 | Archive Date Sep 25 2021

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

Lee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more.

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 Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

Includes stories by: Alison Gaylin, David Morrell, James Lee Burke, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Edwards, Sara Paretsky, Stephen King, Sue Grafton (with a new, posthumously published work), and many more!

Lee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more.

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery...

Advance Praise

"The 20 entries in this superior anthology exhibit the storytelling gifts of authors both familiar and not [...] This volume is a must for mystery aficionados." ―Publishers Weekly Starred Review

"20 gems […] Child’s selections seem especially appropriate for 2021, a year that promises change on so many fronts." ―Kirkus Starred Review

"There is such a wide variety here, in terms of literary style and subject matter, that it’s hard to imagine a genre fan who would not find something to treasure. The book belongs on the shelf next to such essential anthologies as the Best American Mystery Stories series and Akashic Books’ voluminous Noir series." ―Booklist