{"product_id":"best-american-mystery-stories-2008","title":"Best American Mystery Stories (2008)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBest American Mystery Stories (2008)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eOtto Penzler\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780618812677\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMariner Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e2008 ed.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A must-read for anyone who cares about crime stories.\"--Booklist \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe award-winning author and Emmy-nominated television writer George Pelecanos serves as editor of the twelfth installment of this genre-expanding anthology, featuring twenty of the past year's most enthralling, suspenseful, and slyly illuminating mystery stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA cut-and-dried case for a wily crime-scene reconstructionist is turned on its head in Michael Connelly's \"Mulholland Dive.\" A terrible secret shared between two childhood friends resurfaces decades later as one of them lies on her deathbed in Alice Munro's masterful \"Child's Play.\" James Lee Burke tells the haunting tale of a Hurricane Katrina evacuee who unexpectedly finds comfort from an unimaginable loss in \"Mist.\" And in Holly Goddard Jones's \"Proof of God,\" a young man's car is repeatedly vandalized as proof that someone knows about the truths he'd never willingly reveal.\u003cbr\u003e As Pelecanos notes in his introduction, the twenty \"original and unique voices\" in this collection pay homage to the genre's forebears by taking crime fiction into a thrilling new direction. \"But make no mistake,\" he says, \"we are all standing on the shoulders of writers who came before us and left an indelible mark on literature through craftsmanship, care, and the desire to leave something of worth behind.\" \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Best American Mystery Stories (2008) | Otto Penzler | Paperback | 9780618812677 | Used: Very Good | Mystery 1621216","offer_id":50692626284802,"sku":"1621216","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71FC1-bZNsL.jpg?v=1791529745","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/best-american-mystery-stories-2008","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}