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by The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021

“Pull,” Story, Issue #7

  Oleksiw, Susan

  “Kenny Orslow Shows Up on Time,” Mystery Weekly Magazine

  Perona, Elizabeth

  “The Ear Witness,” Murder 20/20, ed. M. B. Dabney, Lillie Evans, and Sherri Held (Speed City Press)

  Sibi-Okumu, J. E.

  “Belonging,” Nairobi Noir, ed. Peter Kimani (Akashic Books)

  Simpson, Chad

  “Notes Towards a Story Called Streetlight Superman,” Story, Issue #8

  Terrell, Stephen

  “In the Deepest Darkness,” Murder 20/20, ed. M. B. Dabney, Lillie Evans, and Sherri Held (Speed City Press)

  Todd, Marilyn

  “Burning Desire,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October

  Wilson, Matthew

  “The Wretched Strangers,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January/February

  THE MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP PRESENTS

  THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR 2021

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  Compilation copyright © 2021 by The Mysterious Press

  Introduction copyright © 2021 by Lee Child

  “30 and Out” by Doug Allyn. First published in Deadly Anniversaries. Copyright

  © 2020 by Doug Allyn. Reprinted by permission of Doug Allyn.

  “Things That Follow” by Jim Allyn. First published in Ellery Queen Mystery

  Magazine. Copyright © 2020 by Jim Allyn. Reprinted by permission of Jim Allyn.

  “Blest Be the Tie That Binds” by Michael Bracken. First published

  in Black Cat Mystery Magazine. Copyright © 2020 by Michael

  Bracken. Reprinted by permission of Michael Bracken.

  “Harbor Lights” by James Lee Burke. First published in A Private

  Cathedral: Barnes & Noble Exclusive Signed Edition. Copyright © 2020 by

  James Lee Burke. Reprinted by permission of James Lee Burke.

  “The Locked Cabin” by Martin Edwards. First published in The Book of

  Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths. Copyright © 2020 by

  Maxim Jacubowski. Reprinted by permission of Maxim Jacubowski.

  “Biloxi Bound” by John Floyd. First published in The Strand Magazine. Copyright

  © 2020 by John M. Floyd. Reprinted by permission of John Floyd.

  “That Which Is True” by Jacqueline Freimor. First published in

  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Copyright © 2020 by Jacqueline

  Freimor. Reprinted by permission of Jacqueline Freimor.

  “The Gift” by Alison Gaylin. First published in Hush. Copyright © 2020 by

  Alison Gaylin. Reprinted by permission of Alison Gaylin. All rights reserved.

  “If You Want Something Done Right . . .” by Sue Grafton. First published

  in Deadly Anniversaries. Copyright © 2020 by Steven Humphrey. Reprinted

  by permission of Margaret E. Friedrich, the Friedrich Agency.

  “The Sixth Decoy” by Paul Kemprecos. First published in

  Nothing Good Happens After Midnight. Copyright © 2020 by Paul

  Kemprecos. Reprinted by permission of Paul Kemprecos.

  “The Fifth Step” by Stephen King. First published in Harper’s Magazine.

  Copyright © 2020 by Stephen King. Reprinted by permission of

  Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents. All rights reserved.

  “The Client” by Janice Law. First published in Alfred Hitchcock

  Mystery Magazine. Copyright © 2020 by Janice Law Trecker.

  Reprinted by permission of Janice Law Trecker.

  “The Truth About Lucy” by Dennis McFadden. First published in Louisiana Literature.

  Copyright © 2020 by Dennis McFadden. Reprinted by permission of Dennis McFadden.

  “The Adventure of the Home Office Baby” by David Marcum. First

  published in The Strand Magazine. Copyright © 2020 by David

  Marcum. Reprinted by permission of David Marcum.

  “Heatwave” by Tom Mead. First published in Detective Thrillers Short Stories.

  Copyright © 2020 by Tom Mead. Reprinted by permission of Tom Mead.

  “Requiem for a Homecoming” by David Morrell. First published in The Darkling Halls

  of Ivy. Copyright © 2020 by David Morrell. Reprinted by permission of David Morrell.

  “Parole Hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA” by Joyce

  Carol Oates. First published in Boulevard. Copyright © 2020 by Ontario

  Review Inc. Reprinted by permission of Ontario Review Inc.

  “Love & Other Crimes” by Sara Paretsky. First published in

  Love & Other Crimes. Copyright © 2020 by Sara Paretsky.

  Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  “Etta at the End of the World” by Joseph Walker. First published

  in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Copyright © 2020 by Joseph

  S. Walker. Reprinted by permission of Joseph Walker.

  “The Path I Took” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins. First published in

  Mystery Tribune. Copyright © 2020 by Andrew Welsh-Huggins.

  Reprinted by permission of Andrew Welsh-Huggins.

  First Mysterious Press edition

  Interior design by Maria Fernandez

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  Library of Congress Control Number: 2021910912.

  Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61316-267-5

  Paperback ISBN: 978-1-61316-238-5

  ebook ISBN: 978-1-61316-239-2

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