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The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (2009)

by Jeffery Deaver(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0547237502 (ISBN13: 9780547237503)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Mariner Books

review 1: I had high hopes for this book. Hopes of smoking guns, lovable detectives, hidden clues and endings with a twist. My hopes weren't answered, but there were some curious stories that I'm still thinking about. A drug dealer single mom with a difficult decision to make, a murderer who wasn't sure about his guilt and an awkward attempt at a kiss that turns into an accidental murder. Interesting, but not what I would call the best mysteries that I've ever read. Maybe 2009 was just a bad year for mystery writers.
review 2: I don't care much for the short story. A master's program in writing will do that to you. Every group has at least five earnest twits trying to be the next Raymond Carver and get their dreary present-tense tale of post-modern angst published in The... more Atlantic Monthly.There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who hate Atlantic Monthly fiction, and liars.None of the stories in this year's Best American Mystery Stories would get the time of day from the Atlantic Monthly. Nifty little slices of gore and mayhem, violence and deceit, and human frailty are on tap. And there isn't a clunker among them, except maybe the Joyce Carol Oates entry.I charged straight through this volume. Check it out. less

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