THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2017 by John Sandford is part of The Best American Mystery Stories series and is a mystery suspense novel. Now in its twenty-first volume, each year Otto Penzler, the series editor, chooses what he feels are the fifty best mystery stories of the year and then passes them on to a guest editor. The guest editor is always chosen from a list of well-known mystery authors and chooses the best twenty or twenty-five. This year it is John Sandford and he shares with us an interesting collection of mysteries.

Some of these are so bizarre. Some are so crazy that they could be a movie plot. You will be drawn in from page one as you read along with some intriguing and some bizarre mysteries that are sure to keep you awake at night. They may even scare you so much you have to sleep with the lights on and the doors locked. A thrilling read that will have you on pins and needles as you sit on the edge of your seat afraid of what is hiding on the next page. The fear of the unknown and the curiosity of not knowing will having you reading page after page as fast as you can.

THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2017 takes you from one thrilling mystery to the next. Some will standout and stick with you. While others are just too dark for you to wrap your mind around. This is the first time I have read a book from this series and plan on going back to read some of the others. I recommend THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2017 and The Best American Mystery Stories series for any mystery fans who loves a good suspenseful and thrilling read.

Book Summary

Number-one New York Times best-selling author John Sandford—“one of the great summer-read novelists of all time” (Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly)—selects the best mystery writing of the year that “will have you on the edge of your seat” (USA Today).

“Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshit—al­though there’s always a little, just to grease the wheels,” writes guest editor John Sandford in his introduction. From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underworld, and from kidnapping and adultery in the Hollywood Hills to a serial killer loose in a nursing home, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 hosts an entertaining abundance of crime, psychological suspense, and bad intentions.