The Best American Mystery Stories, 2010
By (Author) Otto Penzler
Atlantic Books
Corvus
22nd December 2010
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.08720806
Hardback
416
Width 167mm, Height 242mm, Spine 35mm
785g
Featuring twenty of the year's standout crime short stories handpicked by one of the world's best thriller writers, Best American Mystery Stories 2010 showcases not only the very best of the crime genre, but the best of American writing full stop. Within its pages, literary legends rub shoulders with the hottest new talent.
Previous contributors included James Lee Burke, Jeffrey Deaver, Michael Connelly, Alice Munro and Joyce Carol Oates.
This year's guest editor is Lee Child, the creator of Jack Reacher and a simultaneous bestseller across the globe.
Lee Child is the internationally bestselling author of fourteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, and the Number One bestselling Bad Luck and Trouble and Nothing to Lose. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and the Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in forty territories, and all titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. Child, a native of England, and a former television director, lives in New York City. His fourteenth Reacher thriller, 61 Hours was published in 2010.