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A Wall Street Journal holiday 2021 pick

A Suspense Magazine Best Book of the Year

Lee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many 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 Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

Includes stories by:

• Alison Gaylin
• David Morrell
• James Lee Burke
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Martin Edwards
• Sara Paretsky
• Stephen King
• Sue Grafton (with a new, posthumously-published work!)

And many more!