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The Best American Mystery and Suspense

Index The Best American Mystery and Suspense

The Best American Mystery and Suspense is an annual anthology of North American mystery and thriller stories. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 40 relations: Alafair Burke, Anthology, C. J. Box, Carl Hiaasen, Donald E. Westlake, Elizabeth George, Evan Hunter, George Pelecanos, Harlan Coben, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, James Ellroy, James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver, Jess Walter, John Sandford (novelist), Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Laura Lippman, Lawrence Block, Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, Lisa Unger, Louise Penny, Mariner Books, Michael Connelly, Mystery fiction, Nelson DeMille, Otto Penzler, Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, S. A. Cosby, Scott Turow, Steph Cha, Sue Grafton, The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, The Best American Mystery Stories 2003, The Best American Mystery Stories 2009, The Best American Series, Thriller (genre).

  2. Best American series
  3. Book series introduced in 1997
  4. Mariner Books books
  5. Publications established in 1997

Alafair Burke

Alafair S. Burke (born October 1969) is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator.

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Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors.

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C. J. Box

Charles James Box Jr. (born 1958) is an American author of more than thirty novels.

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Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist.

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Donald E. Westlake

Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008) was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit.

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Elizabeth George

Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is an American writer of mystery novels set in Great Britain.

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Evan Hunter

Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction.

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George Pelecanos

George P. Pelecanos (born February 18, 1957) is an American author.

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Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben (born c. 1962) is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.

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James Patterson

James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author.

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Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery and crime writer.

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Jess Walter

Jess Walter (born July 20, 1965) is an American author of seven novels, two collections of short stories, and a non-fiction book.

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John Sandford (novelist)

John Sandford, pseudonym of John Roswell Camp (born February 23, 1944), is an American ''New York Times'' best-selling author, novelist, former journalist, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.

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Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.

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Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels.

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Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr.

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Lee Child

James Dover Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series.

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Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline (born July 1, 1955) is an American author of legal thrillers.

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Lisa Unger

Lisa Unger (born April 26, 1970) is an American author of contemporary fiction, primarily psychological thrillers.

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Louise Penny

Louise Penny (born July 1, 1958) is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec.

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Mariner Books

Mariner Books, originally an imprint of HMH Books, was established in 1997 as a publisher of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry in trade paperback.

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Michael Connelly

Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.

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Nelson DeMille

Nelson Richard DeMille (born August 23, 1943) is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels.

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Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler (born July 8, 1942) is an American editor of mystery fiction, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City.

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Robert B. Parker

Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre.

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Robert Crais

Robert Crais (pronounced) (born June 20, 1953) is an American author of detective fiction and former screenwriter.

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S. A. Cosby

Shawn Andre Cosby (born August 4, 1973, in Newport News, Virginia) is an American author of "Southern noir" crime fiction.

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Scott Turow

Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer.

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Steph Cha

Steph Cha (born 1986) is a Korean American novelist and fiction writer, who has released three novels in the crime fiction genre about her detective protagonist Juniper Song: Follow Her Home (2013), Beware Beware (2014), and Dead Soon Enough (2015).

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Sue Grafton

Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.

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The Best American Mystery Stories 1997

The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, a volume in The Best American Mystery Stories series, was edited by guest editor Robert B. Parker with Otto Penzler.

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2003

The Best American Mystery Stories 2003, a volume in The Best American Mystery Stories series, was edited by Otto Penzler and by guest editor Michael Connelly.

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2009

The Best American Mystery Stories 2009, a volume in The Best American Mystery Stories series, was edited by Otto Penzler and by guest editor Jeffery Deaver.

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The Best American Series

The Best American Series is a series of anthologies that is published annually by Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction.

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See also

Best American series

Book series introduced in 1997

Mariner Books books

Publications established in 1997

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_American_Mystery_and_Suspense

Also known as Best American Mystery Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories 1998, The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, The Best American Mystery Stories 2014, The Best American Mystery Stories 2015.