At SleuthSayers today I list the best short mystery stories of the year.  This is my ninth annual list, and the longest ever.

"Family Secrets," by Eric Beetner, in Switchblade,  #3, 2017. Thuglit   is dead.  Long live Switchblade.  That was m first tho...

"The Spoils," by William Ryan, in CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour, edited by Martin Edwards, Orenda Books, 2017. ...

"Travel is Dangerous," by Ed James, in CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour, edited by Martin Edwards, Orenda Books, 20...

“Truth Comes Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind," by Thomas Pluck, in Alive in Shape and Color, edited by Lawrence Block, Pegasus Book...

"A Significant Find," by Jeffery Deaver, Alive in Shape and Color, edited by Lawrence Block, Pegasus Books, 2017. This is D...

"One at a Time," by Lissa Marie Redmond, in Down & Out Magazine, Issue 2. It's just my luck to get locked in a trunk ...

"Burnt Orange," by Shawn Reilly Simmons, in  Passport to Murder,  edited by John McFetridge, Down and Out Books, 2017. This is...

"Jerusalem Syndrome," in Passport to Murder, edited by John McFetridge, Down and Out Books, 2017. This is Davidson's seco...

"Black Friday," by R.T. Lawton, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, November/December 2017. I knew that if I wrote the...