The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (Best Mystery Stories)

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By Amor Towles & Otto Penzler

Publisher Description

CONTENTS
Foreword. Otto Penzler
Introduction, Amor Towles

Doug Allyn, Blind Baseball
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May/June
Derrick Belanger, The Adventure of the Misquoted Macbeth
A Detective’s Life: Sherlock Holmes, ed. by Martin Rosenstock (Titan Books)
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Princess
The New Yorker, November 7
Joslyn Chase, Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem: Cold Cases (Knotted Road)
Andrew Child, New Kid in Town
Hotel California, ed. by Don Bruns (Blackstone)
Aaron Philip Clark, Death at the Sundial Motel
Witnesses for the Dead, ed. by Gary Phillips & Gar Anthony Haywood ((Soho Crime)
Jeffery Deaver, Dodge
The Broken Doll (Amazon)
Brendan DuBois, The Landscaper’s Wife
Mystery Tribune, August/September
Kerry Hammond, Strangers at a Table
Malice Domestic: Murder Most Diabolical (Wildside)
Victor Kreuiter, Miller and Bell
Mystery Magazine, August
David Krugler, Two Sharks Walk into a Bar
Mystery Magazine, September
Tom Larsen, Pobre Maria
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January/February
Avram Lavinsky, Playing God
Best New England Crime Stories: Deadly Nightshade, ed. by Susan Oleksiw, Christine Bagley, and Leslie Wheeler (Crime Spell Books)
Jesse Lewis, Ears
Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer
Ashley Lister, The Smoking Gunners
The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories, ed. by Maxim Jakubowski (Mango)
Sean McCluskey, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday
Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Vol. 3, ed. by Michael Bracken (Down & Out Books)
Michael Mallory, What the Cat Dragged in
The Strand Magazine, Vol 68
Lou Manfredo, Sundown
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April
Annie Reed, The Promise
Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem: Cold Cases (Knotted Road)
Anna Round, Glass
The Briarcliff Review
Joseph S. Walker, Crime Scene
Malice in Dallas: Metroplex Mysteries, ed. by Barb Goffman

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Created 8 months ago

“I only read the first five stories, which amounts to 29% of the 500-page collection. A couple of the stories were better than the others, but none of them really wowed me. So, I'm moving on in my pipeline. I'm not generally a fan of short stories, which may have contributed to my meh feeling. Hopefully, you'll enjoy the offerings thoroughly.”

About Amor Towles

Amor Towles is the author of New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway. The three novels have collectively sold more than six million copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.

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Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.