Crime Hits Home
A Collection of Stories from Crime Fiction's Top Authors
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*An Anthony Award 2023 Finalist*
The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more.
Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are somewhere else and yearn to go back. But evenin these safest of places, sometimes…crime hits home. What happens then?
In this volume, MWA brings together some of today’s biggest crime writers—and some of our most exciting new talents—to consider this question. Each writer has defined home as they see fit: a place, a group, a feeling. The crime can come from without or within. What happens when crime hits home?
Featuring stories from:
Naomi Hirahara
David Bart
Sara Paretsky
Susan Breen
Gary Phillips
Neil S. Plakcy
Renee James
Connie Johnson Hambley
Gabino Iglesias
A.P. Jamison
Walter Mosley
Tori Eldridge
Ellen Hart
G. Miki Hayden
Jonathan Santlofer
Jonathan Stone
Ovidia Yu
Bonnie Hearn Hill
Steve Liskow
S.J. Rozan
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What happens when crime intrudes into what are supposed to be safe spaces? The 20 contributors to this superior anthology offer answers ranging from the grim to the darkly humorous. In Walter Mosley's searing "Not Exit," a developmentally disabled man, Tom Exit, has been locked up after intervening on behalf of a woman he felt was being mistreated by the cops, only to be repeatedly brutalized on New York's notorious Riker's Island by both inmates and the guards supposed to protect him. Mosley pulls no punches in depicting Exit's journey through the penal system, which ends surprisingly. In contrast, Jonathan Stone's "The Relentless Flow of the Amazon," mocks those who spent the pandemic ordering everything online. His protagonists, Annie and Tom, are disconcerted when they open some Amazon deliveries to find contraband contents, starting with a plastic firearm. Gabino Iglesias distinguishes himself with "What They Knew," a noirish tale of infidelity, murder, and desperation that effectively presents its plot from multiple perspectives. This is one of the better Mystery Writers of America anthologies.
