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The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (2010)

by Lee Child(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0547237464 (ISBN13: 9780547237466)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Mariner Books

review 1: I rated this book four stars because I found it very entertaining. I took away one star because I feel that the book is falsely advertised. One would expect a book with "mystery stories" in the title to be comprised solely of mystery stories. In my estimation, more than half of the stories included were not mysteries but in fact setups for mysteries involving white trash committing crimes. Despite the misleading advertising, I mostly enjoyed the stories included in the book.
review 2: It's hard to give one straight review to a collection of so many varied stories. Really, it's between three and four stars. I enjoyed being able to sit down and finish a story in one sitting. And Mr. Child ensured that each story was strikingly different from the last so you never... more knew what to expect. A few were a bit too violent or creepy for my taste - many of the ones told from the point of view of the murderers. But nearly all are engaging and they do represent the full spectrum of "detective fiction" from Sherlock Holmes to courtroom dramas, to detective stories, to murderers narratives. I recommend, but with the caveat that many of the stories do deal with very dark topics. less

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