The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023

CONTENTS Foreword. Otto Penzler Introduction, Amor TowlesDoug Allyn, Blind BaseballEllery Queen Mystery Magazine, May/JuneDerrick Bellinger, The Adventure of the Misquoted Macbeth A Detective’s Life: Sherlock Holmes, ed. by Martin Rosenstock (Titan Books)T. Coraghessan Boyle, PrincessThe New Yorker, November 7Joslyn Chase, Cold Hands, Warm HeartMystery, Crime, and Mayhem: Cold Cases (Knotted Road)Andrew Child, New Kid in TownHotel California, ed. by Don Bruns (Blackstone)Aaron Philip Clark, Death at the Sundial MotelWitnesses for the Dead, ed. by Gary Phillips & Gar Anthony Haywood ((Soho Crime)Jeffery Deaver, DodgeThe Broken Doll (Amazon)Brendan DuBois, The Landscaper’s WifeMystery Tribune, August/SeptemberKerry Hammond, Strangers at a TableMalice Domestic: Murder Most Diabolical (Wildside)Victor Kreuiter, Miller and BellMystery Magazine, AugustDavid Krugler, Two Sharks Walk into a BarMystery Magazine, SeptemberTom Larsen, Pobre MariaAlfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January/FebruaryAvram Lavinsky, Playing GodBest New England Crime Stories: Deadly Nightshade, ed. by Susan Oleksiw, Christine Bagley, and Leslie Wheeler (Crime Spell Books)Jesse Lewis, EarsAlaska Quarterly Review, Spring/SummerAshley Lister, The Smoking GunnersThe Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories, ed. by Maxim Jakubowski (Mango)Sean McCluskey, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, WednesdayMickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Vol. 3, ed. by Michael Bracken (Down & Out Books)Michael Mallory, What the Cat Dragged inThe Strand Magazine, Vol 68Lou Manfredo, SundownEllery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/AprilAnnie Reed, The PromiseMystery, Crime, and Mayhem: Cold Cases (Knotted Road)Anna Round, GlassThe Briarcliff ReviewJoseph S. Walker, Crime SceneMalice in Dallas: Metroplex Mysteries, ed. by Barb Goffman