The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025

De: John Grisham - editor, Otto Penzler - series editor

Narrado por: Jamie Renell, Marnye Young

#1 bestseller John Grisham selects the best short mystery fiction of the past year.

From over 3,000 considered stories published in the past year, this anthology contains the twenty best, selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham under the auspices of New York City's legendary crime fiction specialty store The Mysterious Bookshop.

Included are tales of suspense, detection, and puzzlement that illuminate the diversity of styles contained under the "mystery" umbrella and highlight some of the greatest practitioners of the short form working today, with a blend of household names and lesser known writers no less worthy of your attention.

There's something for everyone in this celebrated anthology, now in its fifth year, which continues to dazzle with the breadth of its selection and which draws from sources as disparate as Black Cat Weekly, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Conjunctions. Plus, it's all capped off with an additional "bonus story" from an earlier era, sourced from the bookshop's rare book room.

©2025 Penzler Publications, LLC (P)2025 Highbridge Audio

21 Mostly excellent stories.

This is great listening. Short stories give you the plot and characterizations of a novel without the redundant and superfluous elements that authors use to fluff out a salable book.
I liked about 18 of them and really loved a few. A few were too thin or cliche and/or propagandist. Narration was professional though not always well matched to the story or characters. The female’s southern accent was grating.
The vast majority involved a PI or cop’s experience. Over half were whodunits. There were excellent twists in most. (Snapshot and Totality were overly predictable, at least to me.)
Strongly recommend if this is your genre!

Nice variety.

I enjoyed the various authors. Some delivered classic detective fare and others had different styles. All were excellent.