The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 (2016)

What you'll find in this volume are stories that demonstrate a mastery of plotting; stories that compel you to keep turning the pages because of plot and because of setting; stories that wield suspense like a sword; stories of people getting their comeuppance; stories that utilize superb point of view; stories that plumb one particular and unfortunate attribute of a character promises guest editor Elizabeth George in her introduction. <em>The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 </em>is a feast of both literary crime and hard-boiled detection featuring a seemingly innocent murderer a drug dealer in love a drunken prank gone terribly wrong and plenty of other surprising twists and turns. <p/><em>The Best American Mystery Stories 2016</em> includes STEVE ALMOND MEGAN ABBOTT MATT BELL LYDIA FITZPATRICK TOM FRANKLIN STEPHEN KING ELMORE LEONARD KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH<em> and others</em> <p/>ELIZABETH GEORGE guest editor is the <em>New York Times</em> and internationally best-selling author of twenty British crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his unconventional partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. Her crime novels have been translated into thirty languages and featured on television by the BBC. <p/>OTTO PENZLER series editor is a renowned mystery editor publisher columnist and owner of New York's The Mysterious Bookshop the oldest and largest bookstores solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies.