**"A venerable series . . . there isn't enough Xanax in anyone's medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these twenty skillful stories will unleash." --_Kirkus Reviews_** Number-one _New York Time_ s best-selling author John Sandford--"one of the great summer-read novelists of all time" (Stephen King
The Best American Mystery Stories 2017
โ Scribed by Sandford, John (editor)
- Book ID
- 109891513
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780544949089
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โฆ Synopsis
"A venerable series . . . there isn't enough Xanax in anyone's medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these twenty skillful stories will unleash." --Kirkus Reviews
Number-one New York Time s 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).
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