The Best American Mystery Stories 2011: The Best American Series (Best American (TM)) [Kindle Edition] review

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The excellent 15th edition with this "best of" series, edited by myster maven Otto Penzler, contains 20 winning short stories, many by relative unknowns. Among the standouts are Brendan DuBois’s "Ride-Along," in which a veteran cop and a freelance reporter become involved in a robbery, and Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin’s "What His Hands Have Been Waiting For," through which the struggle for survival inside the Mississippi Delta during the terrible 1927 flood has a strange turn. In Ed Gorman’s memorable "Flying Solo," two old men dying of cancer make most with their last days. Such as previous volumes, it’s hard to locate lighter fare, but S.J. Rozan’s clever "Chin Yong-Yun Takes a Case" is a beautifully crafted and satisfying tale of amateur detection. Other contributors include such pros as Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, and Mickey Spillane and Max Collins. --STARRED Publishers Weekly
"Ranging from homespun to lush and tropical, this year’s crop of 20 stories provides a number of tastes and textures.
But exotic doesn’t always mean compelling. Charles McCarry’s "The End in the String," emerge Africa, lumbers such as an elephant toward a conclusion as momentous like a mouse. "Diamond Alley," Dennis McFadden’s quiet tale of small-town teens confronting the murder of the popular classmate, packs a much better punch. Family stories are equally powerful. In Christopher Merkner’s chilling "Last Cottage," a little daughter couple tries to outlast a neighbor determined to oust them using their waterfront home. Across cultures, mothers protect. In Richard Lange’s "Baby Killer," Blanca struggles having an acting-out granddaughter. And although embarrassed by her profession, a Chinese mother helps her detective daughter in S.J. Rozan’s "Chin Yong-Yun Takes a Case." An absentee father’s return challenges a wife who’s moved on in Joe R. Lansdale’s "The Stars Are Falling." But Chris F. Holm shows in "The Hitter" that sometimes the greatest threat is on the dads themselves. Families don’t always grow through birth or marriage, as Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin reveal in "What His Hands Ended Up Waiting For." And of course, some families are simply plain toxic, as Lawrence Block’s "Clean Slate" and Loren D. Estleman’s "Sometimes a Hyena" aptly demonstrate. But nasty behavior isn’t only a family affair. Eric Barnes shows teenagers wreaking havoc for no particular reason in the slow-moving "Something Pretty, Something Beautiful." And in "A While Dead," Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins demonstrate that evil can arrive where it’s least expected.　　　　　　　
It has its highs and lows, but the better of Coben’s Best is absolutely first-rate."
—Kirkus

The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase to the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from countless magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer inside field, then chooses the best twenty approximately pieces to publish. This unique system makes the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 includes

Lawrence Block, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman,
Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin, Ed Gorman, Richard Lange, S. J. Rozan,
Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, and others

[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] Harlan Coben, editor, will be the Ny Times best-selling author of twenty novels, including Live Wire, Caught, Long Lost, Hold Tight, and Tell No One, also because the popular Myron Bolitar series. The winner of Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards, Coben lives in New Jersey.

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