The Best American Mystery and Suspens..., Lisa Unger
The Best American Mystery and Suspens..., Lisa Unger
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023

Author: Lisa Unger, Steph Cha

Series: Best American

Narrator: Sue Jean Kim, Laura Copland, Chanté McCormick, Pun Bandhu, Terrence Kidd, Ewan Chung, Jacob Patalive, Aida Reluzco

Unabridged: 16 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/17/2023


Synopsis

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger and series editor Steph Cha.“This form has a special kind of magic, the ability to transport you quickly, intensely, to capture character, time, place, and story with immediacy,” writes guest editor Lisa Unger in her introduction. The transporting stories in this year’s The Best American Mystery and Suspense are populated by those who exist on the fringe of our society and want more than what life has dealt them: A haunted veteran turned career criminal is on the run. An injured fighter turned bouncer seeks vengeance for his lost love. An assassin on his last job finds himself questioning his life choices and breaks all the rules to understand his final victim. By turns thrilling and enlightening, each story, according to Unger, “will have you holding your breath, flipping the pages, will leave you thinking about people and why they do the dark, dangerous, frightening things that they do.”The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 includes Ashley-­Ruth M. Bernier • William Boyle • S. A. Cosby • Jacqueline Freimor • James A. Hearn • Ladee Hubbard • A. J. Jacono • Adam Meyer • Silvia Moreno-­Garcia • Walter Mosley • Leigh Newman • Joyce Carol Oates • Margaret Randall • Annie Reed • Anthony Neil Smith • Faye Snowden • Jervey Tervalon • Joseph S. Walker • Thaai Walker • Jess Walter

About Lisa Unger

LISA UNGER, guest editor, is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of twenty novels, including her latest, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. She has been nominated for or won numerous awards, including the Strand Critics, Audie, Macavity, ITW Thriller, and Goodreads Choice Awards as well as the Hammett Prize. In 2019, she received two Edgar Award nominations, an honor held by only a few authors, including Agatha Christie. Lisa is currently copresident of the International Thriller Writers organization.

About Steph Cha

Steph Cha is the author of the Juniper Song mystery series and Your House Will Pay, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the California Book Award, and has been a finalist for a Young Lions Fiction Award, a Macavity Award, a Lefty Award, a Barry Award, and a Dagger Award, as well as longlisted for the Aspen Prize. She is an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she edited the noir section for almost five years. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karin on August 27, 2023

My expectations leaned heavily toward more mystery and suspense in this edition, so I must admit I found myself somewhat let down. While I did find merit in some of the stories, I couldn't help but notice that a few of them lacked the depth and substance I was hoping for. Additionally, with the init......more

Goodreads review by Kim (BritishLass929) on September 26, 2023

Better luck next year.......more

Goodreads review by Steven on January 04, 2024

The Best American Mystery and Suspense series has been published since 1997, with a new volume every year. There is an overall series editor and each individual volume also has a second "guest" editor, always someone who is a well-respected mystery author. Starting in 2021, the series editor has bee......more

Goodreads review by Janalyn, the blind reviewer on October 19, 2023

I want to thank Mariner books and Net Galley I love these books they’re short mystery and thriller stories in the written by those who are famous or her going to be famous authors. I enjoyed all the stories in this book although Ihe Invitation by Margaret Rattle was a little bit confusing because I......more

Goodreads review by Steven on August 27, 2024

Several of these stories have long meandering beginnings over a few pages in which it is not clear what the story is going to be about or even what kind of story it is and regardless what follows that kind of story is not to my liking. Some tasty stories in this anthology, however, by some big names......more