The Best American Mystery Stories 2013

Майкл Коннелли, Отто Пензлер, Лиза Скоттолайн, Джойс Кэрол Оутс, Нэнси Пикард, Билл Пронзини, Hannah Tinti, Кларк Ховард, Эйлин Драйер, О'Нил Де Но, Ben Stroud, Ник Маматас, Tom Barlow, Edgerley Gates, Andre Kocsis, Kevin Leahy, Micah Nathan, Patricia Smith, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Эмили Сент-Джон Мандел, Рэндалл Силвис, Деннис Макфадден

Серия: The Best American Mystery Stories, книга 2013

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AS PREPARATION FOR writing the foreword to each new book in this wonderful series, I reread those I wrote for previous volumes. This serves the purpose of reminding me of things I may already have said and therefore assists my efforts to eschew repetition in the off-chance that readers actually pay attention to these things instead of immediately diving into the stories on these pages (as I heartily recommend).

The second goal is for this rereading process to suggest something that may be of interest to readers, to provide a slim thread that might be followed to produce a few worthwhile thoughts. Or even a single one, for that matter, which usually exhausts me.

Although I’m not certain either goal was achieved when I read the sixteen earlier forewords produced for The Best American Mystery Stories, that stroll down memory lane did provide an interesting (to me) autobiographical view of my connection to the series that illuminated numerous changes in attitude and process.

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