The Best American Mystery Stories 2009, a volume in The Best American Mystery Stories series, was edited by Otto Penzler and by guest editor Jeffery Deaver. [1] [2] [3]
The Best American Mystery Stories 2009, a volume in The Best American Mystery Stories series, was edited by Otto Penzler and by guest editor Jeffery Deaver. [1] [2] [3]
| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
| N. J. Ayres | "Rust" | At the Scene of the Crime |
| Tom Bissell | "My Interview with the Avenger" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Alafair Burke | "Winning" | Blue Religion |
| James Lee Burke | "Big Midnight Special" | Shenandoah |
| Ron Carlson | "Beanball" | One Story |
| Michael Connelly | "Father's Day" | Blue Religion |
| David Corbett | "Pretty Little Paradise" | Las Vegas Noir |
| M. M. M. Hayes | "Meantime, Quentin Ghlee" | The Kenyon Review |
| Chuck Hogan | "Two Thousand Volts" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| Clark Howard | "Manila Burning" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| Rob Kantner | "Down Home Blues" | robkantner.com |
| Robert McClure | "My Son" | Thuglit.com |
| Alice Munro | "Free Radicals" | The New Yorker |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "Dear Husband" | Conjunctions |
| Nic Pizzolatto | "Wanted Men" | Oxford American |
| Gary Craig Powell | "Kamila and the King of Kandy" | Red Wheelbarrows |
| Randy Rohn | "The Man Who Fell in Love with the Stump of a Tree" | Loch Raven Review |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | "G-Men" | Sideways in Crime |
| Jonathan Tel | "Bola de la Fortuna" | The Yale Review |
| Vu Tran | "This of Any Desert" | Las Vegas Noir |
Other distinguished mystery stories of 2008 honored in the volume were Jacob M. Appel's Ad Valorem ( Subtropics ), Ron Rash's Into the Gorge ( Southern Review ), Shelly Nix's Monkey ( Hayden's Ferry Review ), Leslie Glass's The Herald (Blue Religion) and Becky Hagenston's Midnight, Licorice, Shadow ( Crazyhorse ).
Otto Penzler is a German-born American editor of mystery fiction, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City.
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