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* The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
Edited by Harlan Coben. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, $14.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0447-55396-2
The excellent 15th edition of this "best of" series, edited by mystery maven Otto Penzler, contains 20 winning short stories, many by relative unknowns. Among the standouts are Brendan Dubois's "Ride-Along," in which a veteran cop and a freelance reporter get involved in a robbery, and Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin's "What His Hands Had Been …