8 Mystery & Thriller Anthologies
It can be hard to pick just one book to read. With these anthologies, you don’t have to! From classic detectives searching for the truth to accidental bystanders who have found themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time, these stories will twist and turn to unexpected places expanding what we know of mystery and thriller as a genre.
The only American writers to be commissioned to pen official James Bond novels, Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson join forces to bring together some of the most celebrated mystery writers. Their stories are set in the chilling backdrop of The Cold War, a terrifying time when there was a high possibility of a nuclear war between the world’s two superpowers. From a reimagining of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Deaver’s “Comrade 35” to espionage drama when a girl befriends a mouse in a biological warfare laboratory, these twenty tales of nuclear brinksmanship, psychological drama, and femme fatales will entertain a wide audience.
In this collection, we follow Socrates Fortlow, an ex-convict who has made a life for himself after being released from prison nine years ago. He has a girlfriend now and a steady job. He even is caring for a pet, a two-legged dog named Killer. Despite all of this, Socrates is still made out to be a suspect for any crime within a six-block radius. In each chapter, he challenges a different problem in life, such as potentially having less freedom for a better-paying job in “Blue Lightning,” or learning that a promise made to one person can hurt another in “Promise.” These situations force Socrates to define his own morality and confront the most dangerous emotion of all: hope.
Jeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Burial Hour, brings us this gripping collection of three short stories. In “Fast,” Kathryn Dance has a few hours to stop a terrorist bombing and tries to get information from a suspect who firmly believes in his cause. “Game” features a wealthy woman gone missing, and her caring housekeeper who pays a private detective to find her body to say a final goodbye. In the final story, “Paradice,” [sic] John Pellam finds himself a suspect in a murder that occurred around a location he used in a movie. While each of the stories seems to be going in one direction, Deaver keeps readers on their toes with masterful plot twists that make their plots all the more compelling.
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