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The Best American Mystery Stories 2017: A Gripping Short Story Anthology of Crime Books and Mysteries

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2017: A Gripping Short Story Anthology of Crime Books and Mysteries

Penned By Otto Penzler
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Editor's Note:
“Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshit—al­though there’s always a little, just to grease the wheels,” writes guest editor John Sandford in his introduction. From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underworld, and from kidnapping and adultery in the Hollywood Hills to a serial killer loose in a nursing home, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 hosts an entertaining abundance of crime, psychological suspense, and bad intentions.The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 includes Puncher's Chance by Doug Allyn The Master of Negwegon by Jim Allyn The Human Variable by Dan Bevacqua Power Wagon by C.J. BoxWilliamsville by Gerri BrightwellAbandoned Places by S.L. ConeyFlight by Trina CoreyThe Incident of 10 November by Jeffery DeaverThe Man From Away by Brendan DuBois GI Jack by Loren D. EstlemanIke, Sharon, and Me by Peter FerryLovers and Thieves by Charles John HarperLand of the Blind by Craig JohnsonThe Painted Smile by William Kent KruegerDot Rat by K. McGee The Woman in the Window by Joyce Carol OatesThe Sweet Warm Earth by Steven PopkesAll Things Come Around by William SoldanThe Process is a Process All Its Own by Peter StraubNight Run by Wallace Stroby

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