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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 by Steph Cha, Lisa Unger
1 review
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adventurous
dark
mysterious
3.5
A good selection of stories, although many of them leaned more toward general "crime" fiction than mystery or suspense.
Favorite stories:
-"Ripen" by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier: An investigation of a death off the coast of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, a location I don't often encounter in my reading.
-"Foreword" by Jacqueline Freimor: I love stories that play with form. In this one, the story of a murder is told through the foreword to a novel (with bonus footnotes).
-"Mr. Filbert's Classroom" by Adam Meyer: A fantasy-tinged mystery, in which a police officer must figure out how a teacher spirited his students away from danger.
-"The Invitation" by Margaret Randall: A journalism student must choose to spend her summer either interning at a newsroom or vacationing in Barcelona. Her choice leads to two parallel stories.
-"The Blood-Red Leaves of Autumn" by Annie Reed: A sci-fi mystery, in which a body is discovered lashed to a tree on a farming space station. Probably my favorite of the book.
Favorite stories:
-"Ripen" by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier: An investigation of a death off the coast of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, a location I don't often encounter in my reading.
-"Foreword" by Jacqueline Freimor: I love stories that play with form. In this one, the story of a murder is told through the foreword to a novel (with bonus footnotes).
-"Mr. Filbert's Classroom" by Adam Meyer: A fantasy-tinged mystery, in which a police officer must figure out how a teacher spirited his students away from danger.
-"The Invitation" by Margaret Randall: A journalism student must choose to spend her summer either interning at a newsroom or vacationing in Barcelona. Her choice leads to two parallel stories.
-"The Blood-Red Leaves of Autumn" by Annie Reed: A sci-fi mystery, in which a body is discovered lashed to a tree on a farming space station. Probably my favorite of the book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Rape, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Pregnancy
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