A review by andrew_petro
The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 by Robert Crais, Otto Penzler

2.0

I didn't like this collection as much as previous years. It delivered more on the editor's premise that mystery genre stories need not have any mystery in them. That is, some of the stories are just stories involving a crime. The awful violence outside the context of a mystery is, well, unredeemed, and less appealing.