The Best American Mystery Stories 2014: The Year's Premier Short Story Anthology of Crime Books and Mysteries (The Best American Series ®) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0544034643 ISBN 13: 9780544034648

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2014

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“With so many great authors contributing to this fiction collection . . . it doesn’t take detecting skills to discover the gem. And every story dazzles . . . These stories, in prose both elegant and compelling, get to the heart of why people do what they do.” — USA Today

The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 will be selected by “writing powerhouse” (USA Today) Laura Lippman. With her popular Tess Monaghan series and her New York Times best-selling standalone novels, Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of modern mystery fiction and psychological suspense.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York’s The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He lives in New York.

Laura Lippman is the author of eleven novels featuring Baltimore private detective Tess Monaghan, eight stand-alone novels, including After I'm Gone coming out in February, and a short story collection. Her six most recent books have all been New York Times bestsellers. Lippman has won numerous literary prizes for her work, including the Edgar®, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, Agatha, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity Awards.

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The Best American Series

In her introduction, guest editor Laura Lippman notes that the mystery short story writer’s task is an exacting one—the result must be solid and satisfying, but also provide “the requisite twists and answers” and a “resolution that must never be too on-the-nose.” Showcasing writers who have honed this nuanced skill set, The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 offers tightly wound whodunits, puzzling perspectives, and disturbing denouements. There’s a bank-robbing former Marine, a young mother under suspicion after her child goes missing, a ruthless colonial timber baron, a high school principal with a past, and a host of other memorable characters in this collection “filled with mayhem and murder and darkness.”

The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 includes Megan Abbott, Daniel Alarcón, Russell Banks, James Lee Burke, Patricia Engel, Roxane Gay, Charlaine Harris, Joseph Heller, Annie Proulx, and others.

[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] LAURA LIPPMAN, editor, is the best-selling author of eleven novels featuring Baltimore private detective Tess Monaghan, eight standalone novels (most recently After I’m Gone), and a short story collection. She has won numerous literary prizes for her work, including the Edgar®, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, Agatha, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity Awards.

Otto Penzler, series editor, is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, and columnist, and the owner of New York's The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstores dedicated solely to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies.
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0544034643
• ISBN 13: 9780544034648
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Herausgeber: Lippman Laura
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