Between the Dark and the Daylight: And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (Best Crime & Mystery Stories of the Year) [Paperback]

Ed Gorman (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2009 | Series: Best Crime & Mystery Stories of the Year

"Gorman and Greenberg follow up A Prisoner of Memory (2008) with another impressive anthology, which features a diverse assortment of styles and settings."—Publishers Weekly

Crime fiction's biggest names have been rounded up for a truly impressive collection of 2008's best short stories. Featuring authors like Michael Connelly, Charlaine Harris, and 2009 Edgar Award winner T. Jefferson Parker, this volume should be on the shelf of every mystery fan.

Three more Edgar Award finalists, a Thriller Award finalist, and many other award nominees are also included!

Other contributors include: Joyce Carol Oates, Scott Phillips, Megan Abbott, Charles Ardai, Sean Chercover, Nancy Pickard, Bill Crider, Gary Phillips, Patricia Abbot, Peter Robinson, Martin Edwards, Jeremiah Healy, Martin Lim and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert S. Levinson, Bill Pronzini, Doug Allyn, Brett Battles, Norman Partridge, N.J. Ayres, David Edgerly Gates, Dominique Mainard, and John Harvey.

The collection also features an article, "The Mystery Year in Review," written by Jon L. Breen.

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About the Author

Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He has written under many pseudonyms, including "E. J. Gorman" and "Daniel Ransom." He won a Spur Award for Best Short Fiction for his short story "The Face" in 1992. His collection Cages was nominated for the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection. Martin H. Greenberg, often called the king of anthologies has compiled more than one thousand anthologies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Tyrus Books (October 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982520948
• ISBN-13: 978-0982520949
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #815,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Master Collectors of Stories Connect Again, February 5, 2010

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Terry Butler "terryb" (California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Between the Dark and the Daylight: And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (Best Crime & Mystery Stories of the Year) (Paperback)

Once again long-time partners Gorman and Greenberg have assembled a satisfying book of stories from some of the best writers at work in the fields of Mystery, Crime and Suspense. Drawing from the pages of magazines like Ellery Queen, themed collections such as Toronto Noir, and up-and-coming online e-zines like [...], the editors, themselves writers and afficianados of genre fiction, present an array of well-crafted tales that will keep the reader baffled, horrified and thrilled through 600 pages. Featuring a lead off survey by Jon L. Breen of '08 award winners and other notable examples from the field, this volume also showcases the 2008 Edgar winner by T. Jefferson Parker, a murderous romp by Joyce Carol Oates, outings by such masters of the form as Tom Piccirilli, Steve Hockensmith and Bill Pronzini, gripping narratives from Nancy Pickard and Charles Ardai and fine tales from relative newcomers Patricia Abbott and Sean Chercover among many others. If this will be your first read of a Gorman/Greenberg volume, I gaurantee it will have you looking for more of their excellent work (such as:The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II (Year's Finest Crime & Mystery Stories)at [...].
Terry Butler

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Read, Poorly Formatted, February 15, 2011

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Alan Rosenbaum (Chicago, IL, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Between the Dark and the Daylight : And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (Kindle Edition)

Some great stories, all good reads. I have definitely discovered some new authors for me pursue. But the Kindle edition is poorly formatted, with many major typos throughout the volume. More egregious is the lack of a 'live" table of contents. No excuse for a Kindle edition anthology not to have direct access to all stories. If we are paying full price, we should have the the Kindle medium use it's strengths to enhance the reader's experience.