The Best American Mystery Stories 2001Best selling author Lawrence Block is one of the mystery genres most prolific authors, with more than fifty books to his name, including Hit List, published in 2000. Blocks selections for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 include stories by such luminaries as Joyce Carol Oates, T. Jefferson Parker, Russell Banks, and Peter Robinson.

utterly fascinating life

‘A book full of emotion

“[A] powerful

it can be a window into the elegant

this gentle picture book explores all the different quiets that can fill a child’s days from morning to night

to excavate the place together

From refugee parrots and prodigal

A Coming-of-Age Story: Armed with her disaster-preparedness notebook

be the cause of Eliza's fall from grace

When an old face reappears on the scene

two-bit hoods

An impossible request