<div>The Anthony Award&ndash;winning author presents a &ldquo;highly readable&rdquo; anthology featuring mysteries by Stephen King, Megan Abbott, Elmore Leonard and more (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;What you&rsquo;ll find in this volume are stories that demonstrate a mastery of plotting; stories that compel you to keep turning the pages because of plot and because of setting; stories that wield suspense like a sword; stories of people getting their comeuppance; stories that utilize superb point of view; stories that plumb one particular and unfortunate attribute of a character,&rdquo; promises guest editor Elizabeth George in her introduction. The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 is a feast of both literary crime and hard-boiled detection, featuring a seemingly innocent murderer, a drug dealer in love, a drunken prank gone terribly wrong, and plenty of other surprising twists and turns. The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 includes entries by Steve Almond, Megan Abbott, Matt Bell, Lydia Fitzpatrick, Tom Franklin, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and others. &ldquo;There isn&rsquo;t enough Xanax in anyone&rsquo;s medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these 20 skillful stories will unleash on a worried world.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

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<div>Book-centered mystery novellas from four masters of the craft. From Anne Perry, the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, comes The Scroll. Hapless bookseller Monty Danforth&rsquo;s recent discovery of a millennia-old manuscript plunges him into a cutthroat conspiracy. &ldquo;A master storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;The Star-Ledger Christopher Fowler, author of the Bryant and May mysteries, presents Reconciliation Day. One man&rsquo;s obsession with a lost edition of Bram Stoker&rsquo;s Dracula sends him on a dangerous journey to Transylvania. &ldquo;If Edgar Allan Poe and Monty Python had lived in the same country and the same century and somehow struck up a creative collaboration, their work might have resulted in fiction similar to Fowler&rsquo;s.&rdquo; &mdash;Richmond Times-Dispatch From F. Paul Wilson, the New York Times&ndash;bestselling creator of Repairman Jack, comes The Compendium of Srem. Prior Tom&aacute;s de Torquemada yields the ultimate power, deciding who lives and dies during the Spanish Inquisition, but an ancient, evil tome is about to change that. &ldquo;A great storyteller and a thoughtful one.&rdquo; &mdash;David Morrell, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of First Blood Elizabeth George, the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley novels, brings you The Mysterious Disappearance of the Reluctant Book Fairy. A woman&rsquo;s gift for immersing herself in the plot of whatever book she likes draws overwhelming fame&mdash;and misfortune. &ldquo;An essential writer of popular fiction today.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post </div>

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<div>Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother&rsquo;s absence. The quirky tenants&mdash;a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by&mdash;rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad&rsquo;s dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows. Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected. </div>

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