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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.087208
EAN: 9780618812677
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0618812679
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: October 08, 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Studio: Houghton Mifflin

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
"A must-read for anyone who cares about crime stories."—Booklist

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 year's 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 Connelly's "Mulholland Dive." A terrible secret shared between two childhood friends resurfaces decades later as one of them lies on her deathbed in Alice Munro's masterful "Child's Play." James Lee Burke tells the haunting tale of a Hurricane Katrina evacuee who unexpectedly finds comfort from an unimaginable loss in "Mist." And in Holly Goddard Jones's "Proof of God," a young man's car is repeatedly vandalized as proof that someone knows about the truths he'd never willingly reveal.

As Pelecanos notes in his introduction, the twenty "original and unique voices" in this collection pay homage to the genre's forebears by taking crime fiction into a thrilling new direction. "But make no mistake," he says, "we 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."




Rating: - High Quality as Always
The Best American Mystery Stories series is consistantly one of the best short story anthologies of the year and this is no exception. This year's collection offers many traditional favorite writers as well as a few surprises. A must for short story lovers!

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