A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times
bestselling author S. A. Cosby author of Razorblade Tears and series editor Steph Cha. In
his introduction guest editor S. A. Cosby observes that writing short stories is “a special
skill that combines brevity with wit and cleverness and the hint of the existential malaise
that imbues crime fiction with its gravitas.” The stories in this col-lection overflow with
gravitas in the most unexpected ways: a cryptic note left on a windshield a murder for hire
meets a game of Mouse Trap a swipe right on a dating app goes horribly wrong. From an
eleven-year-old drawn to the neighborhood spookhouse to a scholarship kid at an exclusive
boarding school a nefarious Old West gunman to a Florida woman’s struggle against both outer
and inner demons the characters in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 are haunted and
haunting and wholly unforgettable. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 includes MEGAN
ABBOTT • ALYSSA COLE • TANANARIVE DUE • ABBY GENI • JORDAN HARPER • GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD •TONI
LP KELNER • BOBBY MATHEWS • LISA UNGER • and others
