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cindy_leavemetomybooks 's review for:
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021
by Steph Cha, Alafair Burke
This wasn’t my favorite Best American Mystery collection ever, but there were some great stories that I really enjoyed. My faves were Slow Burner by Laura Lippman, Infinity Sky by Kristen Lepionka (she’s a fave-fave always), Mala Suerte by E. Gabriel Flores, and Let Her Be by Lisa Unger.
I love these anthologies because reading short stories by authors I already know and love is super fun, and I always find new authors to read.
My favorite line in the whole book was from Mala Suerte:
“It doesn’t get much worse than being killed and made into a windbreaker.”
Correct. Also, hilarious.
Two other faves:
• From Slow Burner by Laura Lippman:
“She also knows the old saying that cautions men to remember, whenever they meet a beautiful woman, that somewhere, someone is tired of her.”
• From Infinity Sky by Kristen Lepionka:
“Now the Speed Dragons were heading her way. Jeramey didn’t need to meet them in order to distill this band down into their essence: there would be a Brad among them, and a Wesley or a Corbin, a weekday-afternoon radio DJ, and an ad agency project manager. The quiet-looking one in the fedora would be the only real musician of the group but he would avoid any kind of direct attention, terrified that someone would discover his terrible secret — bald at age twenty-eight.”
* thanks to Mariner Books for the NetGalley ARC. This is out now!
I love these anthologies because reading short stories by authors I already know and love is super fun, and I always find new authors to read.
My favorite line in the whole book was from Mala Suerte:
“It doesn’t get much worse than being killed and made into a windbreaker.”
Correct. Also, hilarious.
Two other faves:
• From Slow Burner by Laura Lippman:
“She also knows the old saying that cautions men to remember, whenever they meet a beautiful woman, that somewhere, someone is tired of her.”
• From Infinity Sky by Kristen Lepionka:
“Now the Speed Dragons were heading her way. Jeramey didn’t need to meet them in order to distill this band down into their essence: there would be a Brad among them, and a Wesley or a Corbin, a weekday-afternoon radio DJ, and an ad agency project manager. The quiet-looking one in the fedora would be the only real musician of the group but he would avoid any kind of direct attention, terrified that someone would discover his terrible secret — bald at age twenty-eight.”
* thanks to Mariner Books for the NetGalley ARC. This is out now!