This volume brings together the genre’s finest from the past year. With stories from mystery veterans and newly discovered talents, this thrilling collection is sure to appeal to crime fiction fans of all tastes.

Bestselling novelist James Ellroy introduces this year’s collection of the finest mystery writing. Many of the contributors herein are novelists themselves, displaying their talents in short story form: Michael Connelly tells a fatal tale of revenge in “Two-Bagger.” In Joe Gores’s “Inscrutable,” the Feds beat the Mafia at their own game. Stuart Kaminsky demonstrates how horribly wrong things go when a robber gets cocky in “Sometimes Something Goes Wrong.” And Robert B. Parker shows just how important Jackie Robinson’s fans can be in “Harlem Nocturne.” Also featured are veterans of the short story form and favorites of this series. Brendan DuBois’s “A Family Game” introduces a former Mafia...

In this volume, guest editor Sue Grafton and series editor Otto Penzler offer up their choices for the best suspense, crime, and mystery stories of the year. Included in these thrilling tales is Scott Bartels’s dark and violent “Swear Not by the Moon,” in which a drug-addicted Creole is caught between good intentions and bad decisions. In Janice Law’s haunting “Secrets,” an Irish immigrant mother and daughter are faced with unexpected cruelties as they try to make a new life for themselves. And in Lawrence Block’s clever Edgar Award-winning story “Keller on the Spot,” a contract killer uncharacteristically saves a life and finds his assignment becoming increasingly complicated. The...

Шикарная мексиканская проститутка предлагает чикагским полицейским Эйбу Либерману и Биллу Хэнрагану ценную информацию в обмен на защиту от угрожающей ей смертельной опасности. Однако добрые намерения детективов готовят почву для жестокого убийства, причины которого коренятся в событиях десятилетней давности… С риском для жизни Либерману все же удается найти убийцу и — на самых последних страницах романа — до конца распутать эту тайну. Головокружительный сюжет романа, по признанию критиков, завершается одной из самых неожиданных концовок в истории современной детективной литературы. Есть книги, от которых невозможно оторваться, пока не будет перевернута последняя страница. Вы ищете...