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The Best American Mystery Stories 2006

The Best American Mystery Stories 2006

Penzler, Otto

Paperback

Series: Best American

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0618517472
ISBN13: 9780618517473
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Oct 1 2006
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.83
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you. -- from the introduction by Scott Turow

Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense.

Elmore Leonard tells the tale of a young woman who's fled home with a convicted bank robber. Walter Mosley describes an over-the-hill private detective and his new client, a woman named Karma. C. J. Box explores the fate of two Czech immigrants stranded by the side of the road in Yellowstone Park. Ed McBain begins his story on role-playing with the line 'Why don't we kill somebody?' she suggested. Wendy Hornsby tells of a wild motorcycle chase through the canyons outside Las Vegas. Laura Lippman describes the Crack Cocaine Diet. And James Lee Burke writes of a young boy who may have been a close friend of Bugsy Siegel.

As Scott Turow notes in his introduction, these stories are about crime -- its commission, its aftermath, its anxieties, its effect on character. The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 is a powerful collection for all readers who enjoy fiction that deals with the extremes of human passion and its dark consequences.

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