The Best American Mystery and Suspense
The Best American Mystery and Suspense is an annual anthology of North American mystery and thriller stories. Part of the The Best American Series since 1997, it is published by Empire Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Prior to 2021, its title was The Best American Mystery Stories and it was published by Houghton Mifflin.
Works for each edition are selected like the other The Best American Series titles, whereby a series editor chooses about 50 candidates from which a guest editor picks about 20 for publication. Runners-up are listed in the appendix.[1]
Series editors
- Otto Penzler (1997–2020)
- Steph Cha (2021–)
Guest editors
- 1997: Robert B. Parker
- 1998: Sue Grafton
- 1999: Ed McBain
- 2000: Donald Westlake
- 2001: Lawrence Block
- 2002: James Ellroy
- 2003: Michael Connelly
- 2004: Nelson DeMille
- 2005: Joyce Carol Oates
- 2006: Scott Turow
- 2007: Carl Hiaasen
- 2008: George Pelecanos
- 2009: Jeffery Deaver
- 2010: Lee Child
- 2011: Harlan Coben
- 2012: Robert Crais
- 2013: Lisa Scottoline
- 2014: Laura Lippman
- 2015: James Patterson
- 2016: Elizabeth George
- 2017: John Sandford
- 2018: Louise Penny
- 2019: Jonathan Lethem
- 2020: C. J. Box
- 2021: Alafair Burke
See also
References
- Deseret News, October 5, 2001
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