The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 (Best American (TM))
by Otto Penzler
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Read in February, 2008
I am a huge fan of short stories anthologies, i get three or four short story collections a year, but after gobbling them all up quickly, i turned to this mystery collection, which i saw on book store shelved but always passed them up, i bought it and gave it a try...
A lot of these stories involve horse racing tracks, and most of them take place in florida. It's good pulp reading if that's your thang. Of course i am scouring these anthologies for screenplay ideas. But none of these writers i...more
A lot of these stories involve horse racing tracks, and most of them take place in florida. It's good pulp reading if that's your thang. Of course i am scouring these anthologies for screenplay ideas. But none of these writers i...more
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Read in April, 2008
This well written collection of short stories include tales of murder, rape, blackmail, sociopaths, kidnapping, deception and betrayal. Stories unfold through the eyes of the victims, accomplices, children, innocent bystanders and the murderers themselves. Because of the variety of characters, each story comes off as unique and fresh.
It's the perfect book to keep around when you feel like a good mystery but don't want to devote a whole novel to one.
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Picked this up for reading in the bath, and it got me thinking a little about what exactly a mystery is. The stories I enjoyed were mostly by writers I already knew, published in journals and reviews that aren't genre-specific.
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Read in January, 2008
This is such a great collection of short stories. There wasn't a stinker in the bunch and I have found new authors I'd like to read more of. I look forward to revisiting these stories in the future.
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Read in May, 2008
There were a few good stories in here, but Hiaasen seems to equate "good mystery" with "excessive violence."
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