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The Best American Mystery Stories 2017
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The New York Times–bestselling author presents a thrilling anthology of devious crimes with stories by C. J. Box, Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates and more.
 
“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 to this action-packed volume of mystery fiction.
 
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.
 
The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 includes entries by C.J. Box, Gerri Brightwell, Jeffery Deaver, Brendan DuBois, Trina Corey, Craig Johnson, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, and others.
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“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 to this action-packed volume of mystery fiction.
 
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.
 
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        The 21st annual best-of volume in general editor Otto Penzler���s series demonstrates the care that went into selecting its 20 entries. Doug Allyn���s ���Puncher���s Chance,��� in which a man hopes to save his family from a thug, is a perfect illustration of how a gifted writer can bring readers into an unfamiliar world���here professional boxing���and combine that with deft characterizations and an intelligent plot within the confines of a short story. Geri Brightwell���s ���Williamsville��� deviates wickedly from its opening narrative pathway, in which a gun for hire in the Old West seeks the man his cuckolded client has paid him to kill. Charles John Harper���s hard-boiled yarn, ���Lovers and Thieves,��� will make fans of the subgenre hope that its PI lead, Darrow Nash, will walk the mean streets of L.A. again. In Brendan Dubois���s ���The Man from Away,��� another high point, a man whose wife is killed in an accident seeks his own form of justice, despite her harsh treatment of him. Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length. Agent: Nat Sobel, Sobel Weber.

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        September 1, 2017
        Sandford, creator of the action-packed Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers franchises, reprints 20 tales of murder and mayhem in the latest entry of this Penzler-curated series.Although he would like to engage in "an intellectual tour of the history or theory of short-story writing," what Sandford really has on offer is a highly masculinized exploration of fairly recent concerns. Fifteen of these stories are by white men, the remainder by white women. Their themes include pursuit and intrusion. A hit man stalks his prey in Gerri Brightwell's "Williamsville." A driver pursues a motorcyclist in Wallace Stroby's "Night Run." An olfactorily-challenged serial killer seeks his next victim in Peter Straub's "The Process Is a Process All Its Own." Men also defend what they see as theirs. An injured boxer looks for the lucky shot that will keep a Mexican upstart from making inroads against his Irish family's franchise in Doug Allyn's "Puncher's Chance." A pot grower finds a way to keep poachers off his land in Dan Bevacqua's "The Human Variable." A rural farmer defends his pregnant wife against intruders in C.J. Box's "Power Wagon." And Jim Allyn combines flight and intrusion in "The Master of Negwegon," a tale of military buddies who team up to catch the fourth member of their crew who's killed a teenager for despoiling his pristine forest. Readers will find the occasional relationship story. A mobbed-up transplant to California forms an unlikely friendship with an elderly Italian horse-whisperer in Steven Popkes' "The Sweet Warm Earth." Joyce Carol Oates offers a tale of love gone wrong in "The Woman in the Window." And relationships can grow out of intrusion, as the protagonist of K. McGee's "Dot Rat" discovers.With its narrow take on what it means to be American, Sandford's collection seems determined to make the genre great again.

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        Best American Mystery Stories can now drink legally, notes series editor Otto Penzlerit's 21. Volume editor Sandford (Golden Prey, 2017), who selected the final 20 stories, opens with some worthwhile thoughts on what he calls fictionoid literature (columns, profiles, even haiku), and then we're away. These stories, drawn heavily from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine but also anthologies (The Highway Kind, 2016) and even literary journals, feature some heavy hittersC. J. Box, Jeffery Deaver, Craig Johnson, William Kent Krueger, Joyce Carol Oates, and Peter Strauband their stories don't disappoint. (Box's Power Wagon, as Sandford notes, hooks readers from the first line.) But some of the greatest pleasures here come from genre-blending authors who may be less familiar: Gerri Brightwell's Williamsville gives a dark twist to the gunslinger-comes-to-town trope, and Steven Popkes's The Sweet Warm Earth puts a Boston mob soldier at a California racetrack for a hard-boiled tale with a slightly supernatural twist. Are these stories truly the best? That's subjective, of course, but the hard work of selection shows, and it's damn fine reading.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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“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 to this action-packed volume of mystery fiction.
 
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