The best-selling authorCarl Hiaasentakes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year’s most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense.Laura Lippmanintroduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful encounter with a former client at her son’s soccer game.Ridley Pearsontraces a famous author of horror tales who becomes trapped in a real one after his wife vanishes while jogging.Joyce Carol Oatestravels to a New Jersey racetrack where the animals that break down are of the two-legged type.Lawrence Blocktells the story of Keller, a hitman for hire who happens to live in Greenwich Village, loves spicy food, and collects stamps as a hobby. AndScott Wolvenplunges us into the world of an ex-con who takes a job at a private and very illegal Nevada racetrack where each day millions are won and lost. Mostly lost.AsCarl Hiaasennotes in his introduction, “The stories in this collection would do honour to any anthology of short literature. More than transcending the genre of crime, they blow away its nebulous boundaries.”The Best American Mystery Stories 2007is a powerful collection certain to delight mystery aficionados and all lovers of great fiction.