The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024

By: S.A. Cosby, Steph Cha

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez, Bill Andrew Quinn, John Pirhalla, Jane Oppenheimer, Nicole Lewis

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears, and series editor Steph Cha.

In his introduction, guest editor S. A. Cosby observes that writing short stories is “a special skill that combines brevity with wit and cleverness and the hint of the existential malaise that imbues crime fiction with its gravitas.” The stories in this col-lection overflow with gravitas in the most unexpected ways: a cryptic note left on a windshield, a murder for hire meets a game of Mouse Trap, a swipe right on a dating app goes horribly wrong. From an eleven-year-old drawn to the neighborhood spookhouse to a scholarship kid at an exclusive boarding school, a nefarious Old West gunman to a Florida woman’s struggle against both outer and inner demons, the characters in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 are haunted and haunting, and wholly unforgettable.

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 includes MEGAN ABBOTT • ALYSSA COLE • TANANARIVE DUE • ABBY GENI • JORDAN HARPER • GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD •TONI LP KELNER • BOBBY MATHEWS • LISA UNGER • and others

Minimal suspense

Some of the stories were actually suspenseful or thrilling, but the majority were very boring.

Well written but Sad stories

The performance is strong as and the stories are generally nontrivial with good plots. However for me they were too much on the noir side. I prefer a different more cheerful gung-ho style

production actions

stories not varied enough. too much of same lines and ideas. need more variety

Banal

All these stories are mediocre and the narrators too lack talent compared to the major pros on audible.

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THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE OF 2024


I typicallt don’t read stories like this (usually once I’ve gotten into the story it done). I can’t say I really enjoyed any of them but I did think Unknown Caller as pretty good with a good ending.

RECOMMENDATION: READ IF YOU WANT A QUICK STORY FIX.