The 50 Best Short Stories Books of 2024
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24 year old Los Angeles FBI Investigator, Amy Delgado, and her partner, Josh Anderson are faced day to day with John Doe cases, bu...
The Mystery of the Mermaid Ghost is a tiny book written from the imaginations of my granddaughters ten years ago when they were 5 ...
On the eve of the First World War, Von Bork, a German agent, is getting ready to leave England with his vast collection of intelli...
Fact and fiction is exactly what this small gritty variety of enigma and suspense gives you.The very first story is known as The S...
Set in a small market town in France, this is a bleak story of prejudice, isolation and loneliness. Jonas Milk is a Russian Jew wh...
Detective Darek Blake thought the secrets of his past were long buried, but when a young girl is murdered in a familiar way, findi...
Love a good mystery? Three short stories introduce the three main characters from R.E. Donald’s Highway Mysteries series, traditio...
This short story is any neighbours worst nightmare. Do you see curtains twitch as you pass a house in your street? Do you sometime...
< Can a novel about an American couple's quest to adopt a Russian baby be called a Multi-Award-Winning Suspense Thrill...
What dark deed from the past haunts Major Heatherstone? Why does he live like a hermit at Cloomber Hall, forbidding his children t...
A short story about one young woman and her budding online romance with a mystery man, is everything as it seems? Contains some st...
If you liked "Outbreak", you'll love this! A scientist invents a new lotion that has purifying powers. It has becom...
Just a collection of my short stories (written originally in Spanish and translated into English).
Sherlock Holmes is engaged to solve the disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax. Lady Frances had last been seen at the Englischer Ho...
New York Times bestseller Angie Fox celebrates 5 years of the Southern Ghost Hunter series with a limited edition boxed set of the...
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of...
On the night following the deadly Kendal rail disaster in which two hundred persons lost their lives, cab-driver, Kenneth Salmon i...
It won't take long to discover that Vicki Stagway is perceived as an unpleasant woman. How unpleasant? That depends on one�...
After reading the classic Sherlock Holmes mystery, "The Red-headed League," students in Mr. Schillig's freshman Eng...
After losing her mother in a freak accident, Suede Harris is trying to pick up the pieces and move on with her life. With a histor...
Robert Lewiston has fled the country. After executing the largest Ponzi scheme in history, he changed his name, had plastic surger...
When Klair Knox wakes up one day with no memory, her only mission is to remember who she was. Her best ally in this effor...
A friend of her childhood has returned, she learns -- James Blatherwick, home from Edinburgh, where he was a divinity student. Yet...
The Truth is a reflection on the past. When you come to a fork in the road (and everyone does), the path you choose can take you a...
A compilation of short stories from the mind of a young author. Scary stories, sad stories and ones that will just leave you scrat...
The first book in a series of short ghost stories from the authors'personal experiences as far back as a toddler through the ...
Living in the shadow of his wealthy and dominant father, the Emperor of India, Charu is faced with a revelation that will change h...
The Adventure of the Dying Detective is one of the more character centered Sherlock Holmes stories. The story begins with Dr. Wats...
The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles. Holmes is visited by a perturbed proper English gentleman, John Scott Eccles, wh...
During one of Ben's late night walks to clear his mind, he encounters more than he ever thought was possible in this world......
A short story about an ambitious, untested spy who finally gets a chance at fulfilling a lifelong dream.
“The Road to Hell” collects four stories by Paul Levine, the Edgar-nominated author of the bestselling Jake Lassiter series. Levin...
Hunted Down' is a selection of Dickens' fascinating detective stories. Haining introduces a motley cast of heroes and vi...
A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is convicted and executed for the crime. Many years ...
Kate Bynum is a patrol cop working the graveyard shift. She has seen more than her share of domestic violence calls. More often th...
The Woman Who Came In From The Cold a short story about a woman who is contemplating leaving the organisation she works for only t...
Ambrose Bierce nació y escribió durante el siglo XIX, en su obra encontramos los asomos de lo que nuestra sociedad contemporánea s...
America’s smartest sleuth solves his most puzzling cases yet Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen may look and sound like an eggh...
The execution of a drug dealer haunts a man. --------------------------------------------------
A man, bored with the literary affectations of his girlfriend and her friends, finds his mind wandering and wondering about the ot...
At a sidewalk café on a bustling Parisian avenue, a man awaits a rendezvous with the woman of his dreams. But as anticipation turn...
A curious 10-year old school boy visits the house of a reclusive neighbor to play his piano. What he discovers is the ultimate rea...
She had also been beaten pretty badly. She had several black and blue marks on her arms.She had the look, like she was rich. Her c...
A man follows his soon-to-be divorced wife and her new lover to Mexico to ruin their romantic weekend. But his motive is more than...
This book is a collection of short works of mysterious fiction by Anna Katharine Green. These short stories include the mystery st...
The Titanic was labelled unsinkable by its manufacturers. It, however, defied all odds and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocea...
Sisters Margo and Marcia Fleming have always enjoyed investigating cold cases. Tracking down elusive suspects while giving victims...
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An enthusiastic equestrian who lives for hunting foxes, pretty women, and other people's jewelry ... A resilient nonagenarian...
With a lively, lyrical book about an enforcement ranger in Yellowstone National Park who gets along better with wolves than most p...
“This entry, with its high-quality stories from such genre masters as Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, outshines the typical al...
Don't miss this page-turner for the mystery lover A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected...
John Mortimer—novelist, playwright, memoirist, and the author of more than eighty Rumpole short stories—will never be forgotten. W...
Spencer Quinn’s first original e-short story reveals how everyone’s favorite detective duo—Chet the Dog and P.I. Bernie Little—cam...
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of whi...
Piper Donovan adores her brother. Her sister-in-law is another matter. Self-centered, greedy, and completely annoying, Zara is, in...
Seth Stone, The Zodiac’s Aries, has always wanted to lead and his upcoming run for office could make that dream come true. But whe...
This collection of 25 Hercule Poirot adventures by Agatha Christie are compiled from short stories written for The Sketch magazine...
Featuring a Lieutenant Eve Dallas novella, this collection of paranormal romance stories from five New York Times bestselling auth...
Dressed in pajamas covered with stars, the little girl’s body is perfectly still, her arms folded neatly over her chest. The wildf...
The misdeeds and downfalls of characters drawn to the cultural panoply that is Los Angeles… The sun-kissed city of high hopes and ...
Through swirling dawn fog, they follow the trail of discarded items at their feet: a tube of glittery lip gloss; a cell phone; a c...
"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" is a captivating and mysterious novel that will transport you into the fascinating w...
After years of being beaten down and bullied as a child, game inventor Corey Farrow, the Zodiac’s Gemini, isn’t looking back. When...
In this wonderful anthology of new stories, Sherlock Holmes travels to the far ends of the Earth in search of truth and justice. A...
When ancient evil emerges, it can only be stopped by a two-thousand-year-old sleuth Ten years ago, Douglas Zadig emerged from the ...
Cheryl Bradshaw's library of three stand-alone, bestselling novels .  The Perfect Lie The devil is in the detail. Wh...
New York Times and USA Today bestselling series! Fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer can't wait to spend t...
Being a suspect in a murder case never happens at a good time, but for Capricorn, Tad Halston, a recovering addict and former male...
“ This anthology boasts three terrific tales of yuletide murder in coastal Maine…sparkly writing and emotional depth.”— Publishers...
Internationally bestselling husband and wife Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for a powerful one-two punch with Capital Crimes ...
In Murder in Vegas , the International Association of Crime Writers and New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly have ga...
Nestled in the autumn leaves, her hair tangled in thick brambles, the girl looks like she could be sleeping amongst the wild roses...
Twenty of America’s best mystery short stories from 2011, selected by a #1 New York Times –bestselling author. The Best American s...
"Wanderlust-inducing" (Lola Akinmade Åkerström, international bestselling author) Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living th...
All the pretty girls vanish one by one… Return to the riveting start of the Taylor Jackson series by New York Times bestselling au...
With the long-term success of procedural shows dominating prime-time television, the readership for a forensic anthology extends w...
“This brilliant anthology of short stories by some of the most outstanding women now writing mysteries and crime fiction...is a tr...
On this Christmas Eve indulge your senses with the greatest mysteries from the Queen of crime fiction. This edition of famous murd...
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Rhyme novel The Burial Hour -- comes three powerful short stories. In &q...
Five Years After is a near-future thriller written by One Second After series creator and New York Times bestselling novelist Will...
Finn Wheeler, Pisces of the Zodiacs, has waited years to be taken seriously as a filmmaker, but when his recent trip to New York i...
"The Dashiell Hammett Megapack" collects 20 early and rare stories by the famous mystery writer, plus one poem. Included...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a shocking short story, where a chance mishap leads to the discovery...
Alan Lowe, the Zodiac's Taurus, didn't think life could get any worse than his wife leaving him over his gambling debts ...
Luca From foster kid to mafia boss. I was the undeserving king to the throne, forced into this role after my estranged father’s de...
In eleven stories, the brilliant sleuth tangles with a book thief, an assassin who targets acrobats, and more . .
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Early in 2020, naturist fiction author P. Z. Walker had the idea for a collection of mystery stories to be called "Murder in ...
She ruined their lives. Now they’re going to destroy hers. ‘Someone is recreating every traumatic point in your life. They are doi...
The Second Mystery Megapack selects 25 more tantalizing mystery tales, by modern and classic authors. Included are: FUNNY STUFF, b...
ANTHONY AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY Including NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly’s story “Avalon,” soon to be adapted f...
No one gets inside the head of the murderer—or makes it a more thrilling read—than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels ...
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