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Title details for The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year--2022 by Daniel Thomas May - Available

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

by Daniel Thomas May
Rachel Perry
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Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and 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 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, and Michael Wiley; plus a bonus vintage story from the annals of mystery fiction, written over a century in the past.

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  • Release date

    September 27, 2022

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781696608121
      • File size: 639297 KB
      • Duration: 22:11:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2023

      Editor and bookshop proprietor Penzler's (The American Gun Mystery) latest collection of the year's best mystery stories, guest edited and with an introduction by Paretsky ("V.I. Warshawski" novels), is an absolute audio treat. The anthology includes a number of classic whodunits--in some, listeners may know who did it, but the real mystery is discovering why. Featured authors include literary luminaries such as Colson Whitehead ("The Theresa Job"), Joyce Carol Oates ("Detour"), Michael Connelly ("Avalon"), and Jo Nesb� ("Black Knight"), and showcase settings as seemingly ordinary as Christmas in Jacksonville, FL (Keith Lee Morris's "Sleigh Bells for the Hayride"), or as unsettling as Susan Frith's "Better Austens," which describes a book club with an unthinkable twist. Narrator Daniel Thomas May, of The Walking Dead fame, lends his superb narrating skills to the mystery genre, employing a deadpan inflection that doesn't give away the ending. Narrator Rachel Perry joins May, alternating stories and providing outstanding characterizations that keep the narratives flowing. VERDICT Fans of detective and mystery novels, as well as newcomers to the genre, should find this audio an excellent diversion.--Laura Trombley

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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