A review by bunrab
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 by Harlan Coben, Otto Penzler

3.0

My biggest complaint is that far too many of these stories are NOT MYSTERIES. They may be noir, they may involve a crime being committed - but it's not a mystery unless there's a mystery to be solved! And many of these stories don't have that element. There are elaborate descriptions of crimes being committed - but no question of who is doing it, and no one outside the crime trying to find out about it. As far as I'm concerned, those crime stories should not be considered mysteries. Unless somehow the definition of the genre has changed to include "any story that mentions any crime whatsoever"???