TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,James
AU  - Penzler,Otto
TI  - The best American mystery stories 2015
T2  - Best American
SN  - 0544638743
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Short stories
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Foreword; Otto Penzler --; Introduction; James Patterson --; The snow angel; Doug Allyn --; Cowboy justice; Andrew Bourelle --; Rosalee Carrasco; Tomiko M. Breland --; Wet with rain; Lee Child --; Red eye; Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane --; Harm and hammer; Joseph D'Agnese --; The adventure of the laughing fisherman; Jeffery Deaver --; Crush depth; Brendan Dubois --; Molly's plan; John M. Floyd --; A bottle of scotch and a sharp buck knife; Scott Grand --; Shared room on Union; Steven Heighton --; Afterlife of a stolen child; Janette Turner Hospital --; Apocrypha; Richard Lange --; Staircase to the moon; Theresa E. Lehr --; A man looking for trouble; Lee Martin --; Many dogs have died here; James Mathews --; Motherlode; Thomas McGuane --; A kidnapping in Koulèv-Ville; Kyle Minor --; The home at Craigmillnar; Joyce Carol Oates --; The shot; Eric Rutter
N2  - In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that's the case, I've got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later." Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Hollywood production. Spanning the extremes of human behavior, this collection features characters that must make desperate choices: an imaginative bank-robbing couple, a vengeful high school shooter, a lovesick heiress who will do anything for her man, and many others in "these imaginative, rich, complex tales" worthy of big-screen treatment
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