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The Best American Mystery and Suspense is an annual anthology of North American mystery and thriller stories. Prior to 2021, its title was The Best American Mystery Stories and it was published by Houghton Mifflin through the year 2017. It has been part of The Best American Series since 1997, it is published by Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Works for each edition are selected like the other The Best American Series titles, whereby a series editor chooses about 50 candidates from which a guest editor picks about 20 for publication. Runners-up are listed in the appendix. The editor of the series during 1997–2020, Otto Penzler, defined eligible mystery stories as "any work of fiction in which a crime or the threat of a crime is central to the theme or plot" and only considered those that had been written by an American or Canadian and published for the first time during the previous calendar year in an American or Canadian publication.




Series editors


Otto Penzler (1997–2020)
Steph Cha (2021–)




Guest editors


1997: Robert B. Parker
1998: Sue Grafton
1999: Ed McBain
2000: Donald Westlake
2001: Lawrence Block
2002: James Ellroy
2003: Michael Connelly
2004: Nelson DeMille
2005: Joyce Carol Oates
2006: Scott Turow
2007: Carl Hiaasen
2008: George Pelecanos
2009: Jeffery Deaver
2010: Lee Child
2011: Harlan Coben
2012: Robert Crais
2013: Lisa Scottoline
2014: Laura Lippman
2015: James Patterson
2016: Elizabeth George
2017: John Sandford
2018: Louise Penny
2019: Jonathan Lethem
2020: C. J. Box
2021: Alafair Burke
2022: Jess Walter
2023: Lisa Unger
2024: SA Cosby




See also


The Best American Mystery Stories 1997
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003
The Best American Mystery Stories 2009




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