Best American Mystery Stories

A box of chocolates for any mystery aficionado, with a wide variety of flavors from whodunnit to thriller, this fourteenth installment of the annual series features such big names as Dennis Lehane and Phillip Margolin, as well as lesser-known writers consistently working at the top of their suspenseful games.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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