The Best American Mystery Stories 2002

10 best books like The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (James Ellroy): Faceoff, 3rd Degree, Forrest Gump, Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers, In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon, In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper, Hook, Line & Sinister: Mysteries to Reel You In, Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, The Highway Kind, The Best American Mystery Stories 2018

Faceoff
AuthorDavid Baldacci
ISBN1476762066
Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci and including stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more, this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide!

In...
3rd Degree
AuthorJames Patterson
The Women's Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning town house, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the scene. When more corpses turn up, Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office,...
Forrest Gump
AuthorWinston Groom
ISBN0743453255
Форрест Гамп - наивный и доверчивый человек, сохранивший незамутнённый детский взгляд на мир, - рассказывает на страницах романа историю своей жизни....
Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers
AuthorMichael Connelly
Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends—and,...
AuthorLaurie R. King
ISBN1605986585
The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were recently voted as the top mystery series of all time, and they have enthralled generations of readers and writers! Now, Laurie R. King, author of the New York Times-bestselling Mary Russell series (in which Holmes plays a co-starring role),...
In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN1681772450
"Edward Hopper is surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special resonance for writers and readers, and yet his paintings never tell a story so much as they invite viewers to find for themselves the untold stories within."


So says Lawrence Block, who has invited...
Hook, Line & Sinister: Mysteries to Reel You In
AuthorT. Jefferson Parker
ISBN1400116619
Sixteen of America's favorite author-anglers spin tales of mystery and fishing in this collection. From the tragic to the comic with many stops in between, these stories reflect the authors' passions for both making stories and catching fish. Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson, John Lescroart, Don...
Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance
AuthorLee Child
ISBN0316176346
When a different kind of justice is needed - swift, effective, and personal - a new type of avenger must take action. Vengeance features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaughter, as well as some of today's brightest rising talents....
The Highway Kind
AuthorPatrick Millikin
ISBN0316394866
Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers.
Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2018
AuthorLouise Penny
ISBN0544949099
#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year.

Writing short stories takes “Skill....
Switchblade
AuthorMichael Connelly
ISBN0316369861
An anonymous tip puts Bosch on a case that has remained unsolved for decades, the vicious stabbing of a teenage boy whose body was found in an abandoned Old Hollywood restaurant.

Cold cases are often the toughest: With no body, no murder scene, and no fingerprints, Bosch nevertheless gets lucky...
Angle of Investigation
AuthorMichael Connelly
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch tackles three tough cases that span a legendary career in this never-before-collected trio of stories.

In "Christmas Even," the case of a burglar killed in mid-heist leads Bosch to retrace a link to his past. In "Father's Day," Bosch investigates a young boy's seemingly...
Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories
AuthorMichael Connelly
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch as we've never seen him before, in three never-before-collected stories.In "Suicide Run," the apparent suicide of a beautiful young starlet turns out to be much more sinister than it seems. In "Cielo Azul," Bosch is haunted by a long-ago closed case -- the murder of a teenage...
The Safe Man: A Ghost Story
AuthorMichael Connelly
ISBN1619698382
Published for the first time under his own name, a dark and haunting story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly

Like his father before him, Brian Holloway is a safe man. That is, his specialty is opening safes. Every job is a little mystery, and he has yet to encounter a lock...
Raid And The Blackest Sheep
AuthorHarri Nykänen
Hard-nosed hit man Raid is driving toward the Arctic Circle with Nygren, a career criminal in the twilight of his life. As they journey northward, Nygren puts his affairs in order, wreaking vengeance on those who have wronged him and paying penance to those he has wronged. Their first stop is at a church,...
Jonas Eckel
AuthorKarin Fossum
Jonas Eckel, Eckel med ett E som han själv presenterar sig, är en 38-årig noggrann och korrekt lagerchef. En dag kommer Lillian Ask in på lagret, knubbig, grönögd och omgiven av en svag doft av nyrostat kaffe. För första gången i sitt liv blir Jonas förälskad, inte bara i Lillian utan även...
Dancing with the Devil, How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip-Hop: Dancing with the Devil
AuthorMarK Curry
ISBN0615276504
He has recorded with the biggest stars in the music business. He wrote many of the hits that made Sean "Puffy" Combs one of the richest men alive. On the surface, the multi-million dollar empire that Puff built looks like the stuff of dreams. But after working with Puff for a decade, Curry discovered that...
Gump and Co.
AuthorWinston Groom
ISBN0671522647
Forrest Gump captured our hearts in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Forrest Gump, and in the blockbuster film, winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. Now he returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read."...
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