9 best-selling anthologies books like The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 by Michael Connelly

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2003

By: Michael Connelly

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Don't miss this page-turner for the mystery lover Since its inception in 1915, the Best American se…

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1. Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)

By: Stephen King , Richard Chizmar

3.92

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over t… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I am what you might call a rambling man, and America is my beat."

-Stephen King, Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)

"Los secretos son un problema, quizá el mayor problema de todos. Pesan sobre la conciencia y roban espacio al mundo."

-Stephen King, Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)

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2. The Best American Mystery Stories 1997

By: Robert B. Parker , Otto Penzler

3.73

Format: 357 pages, Paperback

For many years, some of the most vital, creative, and exciting fiction published in America has bee… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of Hope to Die (Alex Cross, #22) by James  Patterson

3. Hope to Die (Alex Cross, #22)

By: James Patterson

4.21

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of h… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Cricket on the Hearth

By: Charles Dickens

3.45

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Dickens gave his first formal expression to his Christmas thoughts in his series of small books, th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I must bear the consequences as I deserve!"

-Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

"Gruff and Tackleton was also there, doing the agreeable; with the evident sensation of being as perfectly at home, and as unquestionably in his own element, as a fresh young salmon on the top of the …"

-Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

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5. Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

By: Richard Russo

4.11

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbea… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

"It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

"probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

"He couldn’t very well start lecturing the boy now. There was every reason to believe that the first thirty-five years of Peter’s life had been the formative ones."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

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6. The Best American Mystery Stories 2004

By: Nelson DeMille , Otto Penzler

3.51

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for th… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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7. Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7)

By: James Patterson

4.34

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever-and his own deepest fears-in th… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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8. I, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #16)

By: James Patterson

4.12

Format: None pages,

Can Alex Cross survive his most chilling - and personal - case ever? Pulled out of a family celebra… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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9. The Best American Mystery Stories 2010

By: Lee Child , Otto Penzler

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The #1 best-selling author of Nothing to Lose, Bad Luck and Trouble and The Hard Way edits a latest… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

10. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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11. Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

By: Jeff Lindsay

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

See alternate cover edition:  He's a charming monster... A macabre hero... A serial killler who on… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Personal (Jack Reacher, #19) by Lee Child

12. Personal (Jack Reacher, #19)

By: Lee Child

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reac… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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13. The Best American Mystery Stories 1998

By: Sue Grafton , Otto Penzler

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

This year's guest editor, Sue Grafton, has put together a wonderfully diverse collection of stories… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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14. The Best American Mystery Stories 1999

By: Ed McBain , Otto Penzler

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

In its brief existence, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES has established itself as a peerless susp… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

15. The Best American Mystery Stories 2008

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Alice Munro , Chuck Hogan , Elizabeth Strout , Michael Connelly , Rupert Holmes , None , James Lee Burke , Holly Goddard Jones , Scott Phillips , Otto Penzler , Kyle Minor , None , S.J. Rozan , Peter LaSalle , Robert Ferrigno , Thisbe Nissen , Hugh Sheehy , Stephen Rhodes , None , Nathan Oates , None

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

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16. The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

By: H.W. Brands

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From New York Timesbestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general … read more

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17. The Best American Mystery Stories 2005

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Otto Penzler

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

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18. The Best American Mystery Stories 2009

By: Jeffery Deaver , Otto Penzler

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the pa… read more

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19. The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights

By: Faye Kellerman

3.62

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Here the backdrop of contemporary California becomes fertile ground for Kellerman's riveting tales … read more

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20. The Curse of the Pharaohs

By: Elizabeth Peters

4.29

Format: 120 pages,

Victorian Amelia Peabody continues to journal her Egypt adventures, toddler Ramses left in England.… read more

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21. Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

By: Elizabeth Peters

4.00

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her debut Egyptian advent… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,"

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

"...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes."

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

"I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had be…"

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to me…"

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

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22. All the Living and the Dead

By: Hayley Campbell

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."

-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

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23. The Chestnut Man

By: Søren Sveistrup

4.21

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

If you find one, he’s already found you. A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His callin… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Os mortos não podem fazer sombra aos vivos."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

"(...) a tristeza é um amor que ficou sem casa, e temos de aprender a viver com ela e a seguir em frente."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

"- Ninguém sabe. Talvez esteja apenas perdida. Às vezes as pessoas perdem-se e têm dificuldade em encontrar o caminho de casa. Mas, se ela estiver perdida, vamos encontrá-la."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

"(...) É uma coisa pequena, mas é importante. Os mortos não podem fazer sombra aos vivos. Foi o que lhe disseram os psicólogos e terapeutas, e todas as fibras do seu corpo lhe dizem que eles têm razão."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

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24. Count the Ways

By: Joyce Maynard

4.22

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Like Father, Like Son (Ali Cross, #2) by James  Patterson

25. Like Father, Like Son (Ali Cross, #2)

By: James Patterson

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The #1 kids' detective series of the decade! Ali Cross is back in the gripping sequel to James Patt… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. Ali Cross: The Secret Detective (Ali Cross, 3)

By: James Patterson

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling kid detective is back! Mysteries, crime-solving, homeroom—all in a day's work fo… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (The Best American Series) by John Sandford

27. The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (The Best American Series)

By: John Sandford

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Number-one New York Times best-selling author John Sandford Entertainment Weekly—selects the best … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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28. Death at Greenway

By: Lori Rader-Day

3.31

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

"Irresistible... a Golden Age homage, an elegantly constructed mystery that on every page reinforce… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Wasn't it remarkable that one might go about one's life, thinking oneself at the center, barely looking right or left, only to discover that everyone else was exactly the same?"

-Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

"A fete in the streets--what good was it? What good was waving a flag and pointing fingers into the air, when they'd lost so much? Too much. They would erect stone plinths to lay wreaths on for the me…"

-Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

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29. The Best American Mystery Stories 2003

By: Michael Connelly

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Don't miss this page-turner for the mystery lover Since its inception in 1915, the Best American se… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. The Best American Mystery Stories 2018: A Collection

By: Louise Penny

3.76

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Don't miss this page-turner for the mystery lover #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chie… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Best American Mystery Stories 2000 (The Best American Series) by Donald E. Westlake

31. The Best American Mystery Stories 2000 (The Best American Series)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.61

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

After just three years, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES series is already a great success, earnin… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
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24 Top fiction books like The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 by Michael Connelly

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Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)

Stephen King , Richard Chizmar

3.92

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The Best American Mystery Stories 1997

Robert B. Parker , Otto Penzler

3.73

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Hope to Die (Alex Cross, #22)

James Patterson

4.21

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John Sandford , None

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2011

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