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.