The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021
By: Lee Child - editor and introduction, Otto Penzler - series editor
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, Emily Sutton-Smith
Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
By: Lee Child - editor and introduction,Otto Penzler - series editor
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey,Emily Sutton-Smith
By: Otto Penzler, C. J. Box
Narrated by: Ben Jaeger-Thomas, Farah Merani, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, and others
C. J. Box , number one New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).
About half were not worth listening to
By S. Harms on 11-20-20
By: Otto Penzler, and others
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021
By: Alafair Burke - editor, Steph Cha - editor, Lisa Unger, and others
Narrated by: Robin Eller, Jennifer Sun Bell, Erin Bennett, and others
Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new The Best American Mystery and Suspense, with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her as the first guest editor.
Sadly I was not disappointed
By Big Foot on 01-04-22
By: Alafair Burke - editor, and others
Jack Reacher, Book 26
By: Lee Child, Andrew Child
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun — until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader.
I Don't Know This Jack
By Philip A on 10-27-21
By: Lee Child, and others
Stories to Keep You Up All Night
By: Lee Child, James Grippando, Denise Hamilton, and others
Narrated by: full cast
Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are 32 of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous, to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify.
So - So
By Tim on 01-15-09
By: Sarah Pinsker, Meg Elison, Ken Liu, and others
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar, Piper Goodeve, Christine Lakin, and others
Today's readers and listeners of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read or hear about about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy strives to accomplish the same goal as ever - to illuminate what it means to be human.
By: Sarah Pinsker, and others
The Best American Short Stories 2021
By: Jesmyn Ward - editor, Heidi Pitlor - editor
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Katie Tang, Ryan Vincent Anderson, and others
A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
Fair listen
By Sam H. on 11-10-21
By: Jesmyn Ward - editor, and others
By: Lee Child - editor, Val McDermid, Charlaine Harris, and others
Narrated by: Laura Benanti, Dennis Boutsikaris, Gerard Doyle, and others
In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA Today best seller FaceOff, 22 of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen best seller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers, from Diana Gabaldon to Charlaine Harris, are paired with 11 of the world's best male thriller writers.
They're all good stories!
By: Lee Child - editor, and others
When Things Get Dark
Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson
By: Ellen Datlow - editor
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Cassandra Campbell, Erin Moon, and others
A chilling anthology in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant, and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and listeners. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, brings together today's leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.
Come for the Oates, stay for the rest!
By Rebecca Rowland, author on 12-23-21
Bibliomysteries Volume 1
By: Jeffery Deaver, C.J. Box, Ken Bruen, and others
Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection.
By Melissa on 01-27-21
By: Jeffery Deaver, and others
By: David Baldacci
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kyf Brewer
FBI Agent Atlee Pine's harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from number one New York Times best-selling author David Baldacci.
A Huge Disappointment!
By Gentle Heart on 11-26-21
By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
A serial killer is trolling a midwestern suburb. His tools: a hammer, a screwdriver, floral wire, a kitchen knife and, to complete his errand, a Russian nesting doll left behind as a calling card. From one grisly crime scene to the next, Detective Ernest Neville and his Russian Doll Killer task force follow. With few leads and his career on the line, Neville is driven to desperate measures to get to the core of this diabolical puzzle. Layer by layer, he's getting closer to the final piece.
By brian on 08-24-21
The Dark Hours
By: Michael Connelly
Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.
Too much Covid; not enough Bosch
By sdhaase1 on 11-13-21
The Left-Handed Twin
Jane Whitefield Series, Book 9
By: Thomas Perry
Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Jane Whitefield helps people disappear. Fearing for their lives, fleeing dangerous situations, her clients come to her when they need to vanish completely - to assume a new identity and establish a new life somewhere they won't be found. And when people are desperate enough to need her services, they come to the old house in western New York where Jane was raised to begin their escape.
It's Jane Whitefield......
By Mckai on 01-19-22
The Chaos Kind
By: Barry Eisler
Narrated by: Barry Eisler
Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she's determined to put one of America's most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin whose skills have been forged in intelligence, the military, and the hardest prisons.
Eisler writes with the best...
By shelley on 10-02-21
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker, John Grisham
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and has grown stone-cold.
Terrible narration!!
By Susan Croft on 10-21-21
First Thrills
High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors
By: Lee Child - editor, Steve Berry - afterword, Stephen Coonts, and others
Narrated by: Jim Bond, Nick Podehl, Luke Daniels, and others
First Thrills will include never-before-published stories by New York Times best-selling authors including Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham, Joan Johnston, John Lescroart, Alex Kava and Deb Carlin, Michael Palmer (with Daniel James Palmer), Karin Slaughter, and Wendi Corsi Staub.
A Good Anthology
By Ladyfire on 08-27-10
Another Kind of Eden
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne's involvement with a shady professor who is mixed up with a drug-addled cult.
Best that Burke Ever Wrote
By G. Minott on 08-20-21
Peter Ash, Book 7
By: Nick Petrie
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
War veteran Peter Ash is driving through Northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car dead. Peter offers her a lift, but what begins as an act of kindness soon turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the lonely highways with the woman's vicious ex-cop husband hot on their trail. The pregnant woman has seen something she was never meant to see...but protecting her might prove to be more than Peter can handle.
Lee Child selects the 20 best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more.
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 best seller Lee Child has selected the 20 most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
Includes stories by: Alison Gaylin, David Morrell, James Lee Burke, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Edwards, Sara Paretsky, Stephen King, Sue Grafton (with a new, posthumously published work), and many more!
©2021 The Mysterious Press; Introduction copyright 2021 by Lee Child (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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What listeners say about The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021
Amanda R. LaRosa
Cannot get by the narrator.
With no disrespect to any of the authors, I started the series and just couldn't get past the narrator's voice. His tone and higher pitch were so distracting I could not continue. Just not for me.
STEFANY C.
Very disappointing collection.
Expected the cream of the crop but this was a collection of mediocre stories that weren't even performed all that well. I need to stop falling for hype.