The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022

De: Jess Walter - editor, Steph Cha - series editor

Narrado por: Desean Terry, Lindsey Dorcus, Max Meyers, Frankie Corzo, Christopher Salazar, Chanté McCormick

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.

New York Times bestselling author and “superb storyteller” (Boston Globe), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty short stories that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Jess Walter and Steph Cha (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

Not the best.

Maybe because they’re “American”. The “Bookshop” annual mystery collections are 70-90% good whereas these probably 30-50% good enough to finish or remember. Get the impression that this series is getting more throwaway contributions from hacks or authors saving better works for elsewhere.
I often try to listen to the end but I find that if I don’t like it in the first 5 minutes, I will regret continuing. I regret at least half of these, just a few clever ones and few were really mysterious or mysteries

Very strange stories for a mystery anthology

I wouldn’t call most of the stories mysteries. A couple of good ones, but more of them were boring or just strange. If these were the best of the year, it was a very bad year!!! Readers overall good, but didn’t have much to work with.