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product_id: 1357259
title: "The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 Paperback – January 1, 2013"
brand: "lisa scottoline"
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reviews_count: 8
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# The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 Paperback – January 1, 2013

**Brand:** lisa scottoline
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- **What is this?** The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 Paperback – January 1, 2013 by lisa scottoline
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## Customer Reviews

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    Mysteries from the Dark Side
  

*by G***0 on Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2014*

An interesting collection though  on the dark side.  The stories covered  such things as spousal abuse, stalking, mental illness, just plain meanness, murder, child molestation, bullying, terrorism.  greed, thievery, pride, and a gamut of human emotions and sometimes lack of emotions.  All the writers were deft at creating characters and situations.  There were even some killings that earned my sympathy as I could understand why.  I cannot fault  the selections as I felt all the  stories were compelling. Not too graphic and unpleasantness was conveyed without detailed blood and gore descriptions.  I think each person would find different stores affected them more than others, for me it was "Prison Town", "Crossing's" and "Quarry".

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    Lean and Mean
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2014*

Editor Lisa Scottoline describes these tales as "stories with abs". They are said to be lean and mean. Rightfully, she speaks of the challenges of penning short stories. This set the bar high which did no service to the ones selected. Only two stood out for me. Smothered and Covered by Tom Barlow kicks it all off with tight but illustrative writing. The Sailor in the Picture is haunting for it's stripping of an innocent time.I wholeheartedly agree with other reviewers who felt the vast majority of the stories were "crime" not "mystery". It was all noir-ish with so many of the characters being utterly detestable that I took frequent breaks to get through it. Beyond the genre debate, if these are the "best" of 2013 then it was a lean and mean year.

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    Very enjoyable
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2013*

I love short stories so for me anthologies are great to take along when I have to sit in a waiting room, or for the times I only have a half hour to read and don't want to get into something longer. These stories are very different in style and content but each is satisfying and entertaining.

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