The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022

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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022

Diverse voices, settings, and premises make this a treat for fans of literate and inventive mystery fiction.– “Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW”

Review Quotes:
The stories take off from their humble points of origin into spaces few would have predicted, as they explore the terrain most familiar and yet most mysterious of all: the geography of the human heart. Imaginations run loose in the best ways possible.– “Kirkus STARRED REVIEW” (10/12/2022 12:00:00 AM)

Review Quotes:
Penzler’s latest anthology of the year’s best mystery stories, guest edited this time by Sara Paretsky, brings together short fiction weighted toward character-driven tales awash in psychological thrills. Mobsters, assassins, and executioners blend with conflicted and embattled everypersons, leaving no doubt that mayhem can slip into our tightest corners.– “Booklist STARRED REVIEW” (11/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)

Publisher Marketing:

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.

Includes stories by:

• Doug Allyn
• Colin Barrett
• Jerome Charyn
• Michael Connelly
• Susan Frith
• Tom Larsen
• Sean Marciniak
• Stefon Mears
• Kieth Lee Morris
• Gwen Mullins
• Jo Nesbo
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Annie Reed
• Kristen Kathryn Rusch
• Anna Scotti
• Ginny Swart
• Ellen Tremiti
• Joseph S. Walker
• Colson Whitehead
• Michael Wiley

Plus a bonus vintage story from the annals of mystery fiction, written over a century in the past.

 

 

Review Citations:

• Publishers Weekly 07/25/2022 (EAN 9781613163498, Paperback) – *Starred Review
• Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 31 (EAN 9781613163498, Paperback)
• Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2022 (EAN 9781613163481, Hardcover) – *Starred Review
• Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 31 (EAN 9781613163481, Hardcover) – *Starred Review

 

 

Contributor Bio:Paretsky, Sara
Sara Paretsky is the author of the bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels, including, most recently, Bleeding Kansas. Paretsky is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers’ Association. She lives in Chicago.

Contributor Bio:Penzler, Otto
Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of the Mysterious Press (1975); Mysterious Press.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from Noircon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.