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The best American mystery stories 2017 / edited and with an introduction by John Sandford ; Otto Penzler, series editor.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

FICTION BES 2017

Best American series.

9780544949089 (pbk.)

xvii, 360 pages ; 21 cm

"A Mariner original"--Title page.

Puncher's chance / Doug Allyn -- The master of Negwegon / Jim Allyn -- The human variable / Dan Bevacqua -- Power wagon / C.J. Box -- Williamsville / Gerri Brightwell -- Flight / Trina Corey -- The incident of 10 November / Jeffery Deaver -- The man from away / Brendan Dubois -- GI Jack / Loren D. Estleman -- Ike, Sharon, and me / Peter Ferry -- Lovers and thieves / Charles John Harper -- Land of the blind / Craig Johnson -- The painted smile / William Kent Krueger -- Dot rat / K. McGee -- The woman in the window / Joyce Carol Oates -- The sweet warm Earth / Steven Popkes -- All things come around / William Soldan -- The process is a process all it's own / Peter Straub -- Night run / Wallace Stroby

"Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshit - although there's always a little, just to grease the wheels," writes guest editor John Sandford in his introduction. From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underworld, and from kidnapping and adultery in the Hollywood Hills to a serial killer loose in a nursing home, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 hosts an entertaining abundance of crime, psychological suspense, and bad intentions.

Mystery fiction.

Sandford, John, 1944 February 23-

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