A state of the Art collection: the world's bestselling crime writer complies his pick of the year's best crime writing.

This year's guest editor is Lee Child, the creator of Jack Reacher and a simultaneous bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic.

Featuring twenty of the year's standout crime short stories handpicked by one of the world's best thriller writers, Best American Mystery Stories 2010 showcases not only the very best of the crime genre, but the best of American writing full stop. Within its pages, literary legends rub shoulders with the hottest new talent. Contributors in the past have included James Lee Burke, Jeffrey Deaver, Michael Connelly, Alice Munro and Joyce Carol Oates.

A state of the Art collection: the world's bestselling crime writer complies his pick of the year's best crime writing.

About the Author
Lee Child is the internationally bestselling author of thirteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, and the #1 bestselling Bad Luck and Trouble and Nothing to Lose. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and the Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in forty territories, and all titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his fourteenth Reacher thriller, 61 Hours.


Book Information
ISBN 9781848875739
Author Otto Penzler
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Corvus
Publisher Atlantic Books
Weight(grams) 785g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 167mm * 35mm