A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award–winning author C. J. Box.
This volume brings together seasoned masters and fresh voices, following a thief fleeing across Brooklyn with stolen cash, an aging hitman sent to train his reckless replacement, and a guitarist carrying her instrument through Hollywood.
Individual stories span the darker corners of crime, placing an investigator in a small-town butcher shop, an armed showdown on a Mississippi sandbar, and a Wyoming sheriff on the trail of two cunning bank robbers.
C. J. Box , #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).
