{"product_id":"best-american-mystery-stories-2006","title":"Best American Mystery Stories (2006)","description":"\"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you.\" -- from the introduction by Scott Turow \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBest-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElmore Leonard tells the tale of a young woman who's fled home with a convicted bank robber. Walter Mosley describes an over-the-hill private detective and his new client, a woman named Karma. C. J. Box explores the fate of two Czech immigrants stranded by the side of the road in Yellowstone Park. Ed McBain begins his story on role-playing with the line \"'Why don't we kill somebody?' she suggested.\" Wendy Hornsby tells of a wild motorcycle chase through the canyons outside Las Vegas. Laura Lippman describes the \"Crack Cocaine Diet.\" And James Lee Burke writes of a young boy who may have been a close friend of Bugsy Siegel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Scott Turow notes in his introduction, these stories are \"about crime -- its commission, its aftermath, its anxieties, its effect on character.\" The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 is a powerful collection for all readers who enjoy fiction that deals with the extremes of human passion and its dark consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePenzler, Otto:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York's The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He lives in New York.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50326522691858,"sku":"9780618517473","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2daf6fa-644d-4cec-abb7-6d921f70a82a.jpg?v=1727703377","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/best-american-mystery-stories-2006","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}