The Best Mystery Stories of the Year..., Lee Child
The Best Mystery Stories of the Year..., Lee Child
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The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021

Author: Lee Child, Lee Child

Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith, Matt Godfrey

Unabridged: 14 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/14/2021

Synopsis

Lee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more.

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 Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

Includes stories by: Alison Gaylin, David Morrell, James Lee Burke, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Edwards, Sara Paretsky, Stephen King, Sue Grafton (with a new, posthumously published work), and many more!

About Lee Child

English Author Jim Grant (Pen Name) “Lee Child”, was born in 1954 in Coventry, England UK. His most notable writings are the Jack Reacher series novels. Beginning with his first novel, Killing Floor, each of his work follows a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher who wanders throughout the United States.

Grant (Child) studied law at the University of Sheffield, but knew he had no intention of practicing law. After graduating, he worked in commercial television. He worked in that venue until 1995. A fun fact is that he chose Reacher for his main characters name, because he himself is tall and his wife once said, “If this “writing thing” does not work out, you could always be a Reacher in a supermarket.” Grant (Child) describes his books as revenge stories-“somebody does a very bad thing, and Reacher takes revenge.” In 2012, his novel “One Shot”, was adapted into a film called “Jack Reacher”, starring Tom Cruise.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on December 12, 2024

A collection of twenty short stories all positioned to be ‘mysteries’. It has the mixed bag feel of virtually every compendium I’ve read: some I really loved others I skipped pretty early on having failed to be engaged. But for me, too many fell between these two extremes – they were just middle-of-......more

Goodreads review by Shannon M (Canada) on June 11, 2022

It is difficult to read an anthology of short stories within a limited time period. They are meant to be savoured one at a time, with stops between. They take place in different settings, with different character types, and the individual authors use strikingly diverse writing styles. But when it is......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on September 21, 2021

22 Short mystery stories that I mostly enjoyed. My favorites were The Gift by Alison Gaylin, The Fifth Step by Stephen King, Thirty and Out by Doug Allen and Edda at the End of the World by Joseph S. Walker. I chose to listen to this book on audio and the narrators were very good. Don’t just take my......more

Goodreads review by Steve on March 12, 2022

Meet the new series, Same as the old series This book, says the "Foreward" by Otto Penzler, is planned to be the first in a new series of such anthologies. Penzler is identified as the "Series Editor." Stories that might be included are first looked through by Michele Slung; there are about three thou......more

Goodreads review by Jim on March 27, 2022

It’s hard to critically assess the stories in THE MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP PRESENTS THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR: 2021 without putting the collection as a whole in context. This is the first edition in the series, which came into being when Otto Penzler, the owner of Mysterious Bookshop and publi......more

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