A Mystery Lover's Bookshelf, April 2012

Whether you are just beginning to jump into mystery fiction are a full-fledged aficionado, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2011 contains stories from both new and familiar authors. An annual volume edited by the stalwart Otto Penzler and a rotating co-editor (Harlan Coben in 2011), THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES provides a triptych of the length, breadth, and depth of the talent working in the genre. The 2011 volume includes such diverse authors as Brendan DuBois, S.J. Rozan, Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin,  Mickey Spillane and Max Collins, and Lawrence Block, among many others.