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Tuesday 29 October 2024

‘Best Crime Stories Of The Year’ Volume 04

Edited by Anthony Horowitz and Otto Penzler.
Published by Head of Zeus,
26 September 2024.
ISBN: 978-
103590976-6 (HB)

A fantastic selection of Crime stories published in 2023 and selected and edited by the above authors. 

There are 20 stories - all completely different and very original plus a bonus story by L. Frank Baum an author from the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, who died in 1919 after writing numerous famous stories including The Wizard of Oz. 

I enjoyed all the stories especially those with a surprising twist at the end.  The stories cover a wide range of styles and themes and although there are some gruesome murders along the way there is generally a sense of redemption or retribution at the end. 

I can't think of a better Christmas present to buy for Crime Literature loving family and friends!  As an introduction to good Crime writing this anthology is also a great potential gift. 
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Reviewer: Toni Russell

Anthony Horowitz is the author responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War.He has also written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; a James Bond novel, Trigger Mortis; and his most recent stand-alone novel, Magpie Murders, was a Top Five Sunday Times bestseller.He is on the board of the Old Vic Theatre, and was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014. 

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years. Mr. Penzler was the founder of The Mysterious Press, which has now become part of the Warner publishing empire; he also created the publishing firm of Otto Penzler Books, which is now an imprint at Carroll & Graf, and The Armchair Detective Library, a publishing house devoted to reprinting classic crime fiction for the collector and library markets.

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