The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 (Hardcover)

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 By Sara Paretsky (Editor), Otto Penzler (Series edited by) Cover Image
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Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more!


Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.


Includes stories by:



  • Doug Allyn

  • Colin Barrett

  • Jerome Charyn

  • Michael Connelly

  • Susan Frith

  • Tom Larsen

  • Sean Marciniak

  • Stefon Mears

  • Kieth Lee Morris

  • Gwen Mullins

  • Jo Nesbo

  • Joyce Carol Oates

  • Annie Reed

  • Kristen Kathryn Rusch

  • Anna Scotti

  • Ginny Swart

  • Ellen Tremiti

  • Joseph S. Walker

  • Colson Whitehead

  • Michael Wiley


Plus a bonus vintage story from the annals of mystery fiction, written over a century in the past.



About the Author


Sara Paretsky is the author of the bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels, including, most recently, Bleeding Kansas. Paretsky is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers’ Association. She lives in Chicago.


Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.

Praise For…


Diverse voices, settings, and premises make this a treat for fans of literate and inventive mystery fiction.
— Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW

The stories take off from their humble points of origin into spaces few would have predicted, as they explore the terrain most familiar and yet most mysterious of all: the geography of the human heart. Imaginations run loose in the best ways possible.
— Kirkus STARRED REVIEW

Penzler's latest anthology of the year's best mystery stories, guest edited this time by Sara Paretsky, brings together short fiction weighted toward character-driven tales awash in psychological thrills. Mobsters, assassins, and executioners blend with conflicted and embattled everypersons, leaving no doubt that mayhem can slip into our tightest corners.
— Booklist STARRED REVIEW


Product Details
ISBN: 9781613163481
ISBN-10: 1613163487
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Publication Date: September 27th, 2022
Pages: 500
Language: English
Series: Best Mystery Stories