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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)

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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

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.