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Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop – Otto Penzler
This is a fun collection of twelve Christmastime stories written for the Mysterious Bookshop in NYC. The requirements to be included in the collection are as follows: be set at Christmastime, involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and be set at least partially in the Mysterious Bookshop. I had a…
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The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024 – Penzler
This collection of stories is more gritty/realistic than my usual favorite type: cozy British person solving a mystery. But it’s still a very good collection of mystery stories that I would recommend any fan of the genre to read. I was super excited that one of the narrators is BJ Harrison, who narrates the Classic…