The Best American Mystery and Suspens..., S.A. Cosby
The Best American Mystery and Suspens..., S.A. Cosby
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024

Author: S.A. Cosby, Steph Cha

Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez, Bill Andrew Quinn, John Pirhalla, Jane Oppenheimer, Nicole Lewis

Unabridged: 16 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 10/22/2024

Synopsis

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears, and series editor Steph Cha.In his introduction, guest editor S. A. Cosby observes that writing short stories is “a special skill that combines brevity with wit and cleverness and the hint of the existential malaise that imbues crime fiction with its gravitas.” The stories in this col-lection overflow with gravitas in the most unexpected ways: a cryptic note left on a windshield, a murder for hire meets a game of Mouse Trap, a swipe right on a dating app goes horribly wrong. From an eleven-year-old drawn to the neighborhood spookhouse to a scholarship kid at an exclusive boarding school, a nefarious Old West gunman to a Florida woman’s struggle against both outer and inner demons, the characters in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 are haunted and haunting, and wholly unforgettable. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 includes MEGAN ABBOTT • ALYSSA COLE • TANANARIVE DUE • ABBY GENI • JORDAN HARPER • GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD •TONI LP KELNER • BOBBY MATHEWS • LISA UNGER • and others

About S.A. Cosby

S. A. Cosby is an Anthony Award–winning writer from Southeastern Virginia. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was named a best book of the year by NPR, The Guardian, and Library Journal, among others. When not writing, he is an avid hiker and chess player.

About Steph Cha

Steph Cha is the author of the Juniper Song mystery series and Your House Will Pay, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the California Book Award, and has been a finalist for a Young Lions Fiction Award, a Macavity Award, a Lefty Award, a Barry Award, and a Dagger Award, as well as longlisted for the Aspen Prize. She is an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she edited the noir section for almost five years. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Books_the_Magical_Fruit (Kerry) on August 16, 2024

Oooh, there are great stories in here! This is my third short story anthology from Mariner Books, and it is by far my favorite of the three. The anthology starts off with a bang and doesn’t let go. Admittedly, there are a couple of stories that did ruin the emperor’s groove, but they’re not terrible......more

Goodreads review by Darius on September 20, 2024

Being very familiar with the annual collection, I kind of knew what to expect with “The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024” edited by by S.A. Cosby, Steph Cha: a variety of stories that usually reflect a theme from the guest editor, a gathering of both well known and little known authors, and a......more

Goodreads review by Kerry on August 09, 2024

Mysteries are my favorite genre, but I could not get interested in this collection. I tried to read one of editor’s books and didn’t finish that one either. It seems like these are not stories, they are strung together but someone who spends to much time on SnapChat.......more

Goodreads review by Alison on October 22, 2024

Nice little collection! Obviously I’m a huge S.A. Cosby stan so his editing this group of stories is absolutely what drew me in. I’m not a bit short story reader. I like to be completely immersed and deep in a book, and tend to struggle achieving that with a short story. While I still grappled with......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlyn on January 12, 2025

It’s hard to rate a collection of stories, but I just couldn’t commit to some of the more modern-framed ones. There were definitely a couple that really got to me, though. Thematic thread seems mostly to be nostalgia, grief, and regret, which I’m always down for......more

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