{"product_id":"best-american-mystery-stories-2006-9780618517473-new","title":"The Best American Mystery Stories 2006","description":"\"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you.\" -- from the introduction by Scott Turow \u003cp\u003eBest-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElmore Leonard tells the tale of a young woman who's fled home with a convicted bank robber. Walter Mosley describes an over-the-hill private detective and his new client, a woman named Karma. C. J. Box explores the fate of two Czech immigrants stranded by the side of the road in Yellowstone Park. Ed McBain begins his story on role-playing with the line \"'Why don't we kill somebody?' she suggested.\" Wendy Hornsby tells of a wild motorcycle chase through the canyons outside Las Vegas. Laura Lippman describes the \"Crack Cocaine Diet.\" And James Lee Burke writes of a young boy who may have been a close friend of Bugsy Siegel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Scott Turow notes in his introduction, these stories are \"about crime -- its commission, its aftermath, its anxieties, its effect on character.\" The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 is a powerful collection for all readers who enjoy fiction that deals with the extremes of human passion and its dark consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HOUGHTON MIFFLIN","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51566181155106,"sku":"9780618517473-new","price":20.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780618517473.jpg?v=1777011366","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/best-american-mystery-stories-2006-9780618517473-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}