The Best American Mystery and Suspens..., Jess Walter
The Best American Mystery and Suspens..., Jess Walter
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022

Author: Jess Walter, Steph Cha

Narrator: Desean Terry, Lindsey Dorcus, Max Meyers, Frankie Corzo, Christopher Salazar, Chanté McCormick

Unabridged: 12 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/01/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha. New York Times bestselling author and “superb storyteller” (Boston Globe), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty short stories that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Jess Walter

Jess Walter is the author of seven previous novels, including the bestsellers The Cold Millions and Beautiful Ruins, the National Book Award Finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in The Angel of Rome and We Live in Water, has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize and appeared three times in Best American Short Stories. He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.

About Steph Cha

Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award, and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She’s an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on November 07, 2022

This is the twenty-sixth entry in what is now titled The Best American Mystery and Suspense. The current editor of the series is Steph Cha. In her "Foreward" to this year's volume, Cha states that defining a mystery or suspense story is an "unanswerable question." "I have found," she says, "...that......more

Goodreads review by Suz on August 22, 2022

Steph Cha’s forward and Jess Walter’s introduction nicely set the tone for the anthology. Walter shares the story of seeing a dead body as a rookie reporter, as well as his admiration for Patricia Highsmith and footnotes. He also specified how each of the chosen stories snapped his interest. The con......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on February 17, 2024

I enjoyed this more than I expected, as I often don’t like short stories.......more

Goodreads review by Mrs. on January 28, 2023

I usually like the annual The Best American Mystery and Suspense collection, but the 2022 entry, edited by Jess Walter, was just so-so. With the exception of Lauran Groff’s “The Wind,” there’s not a story in it which I would want to reread, although the Goldberg and Smith pieces were both interestin......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on December 27, 2022

May or may not be the twenty best stories, but they certainly seem to be the most off-beat and unconventional. More than half I greatly enjoyed. The stories by Dennis Lahane and Lauren Groff stood out (to me) the most for their high quality.......more

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