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The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 ed. Michael Connelly (Houghton Mifflin, October 2003, 0-618-32966-8, $27.50, 352pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 20 mystery stories from 2002. Series editor Otto Penzler.

ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw

xiii · Introduction · Michael Connelly · in

1 · The Jukebox King · Doug Allyn · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 2002

22 · Aardvark to Aztec · Christopher Chambers · ss Washington Square Winter 2002

34 · The Pickpocket · Christopher Cook · ss Measures of Poison ed. Dennis McMillan, Dennis McMillan, 2002

47 · After You’ve Gone · John Peyton Cooke · ss Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters ed. Michele Slung, HarperPerennial, 2002

62 · Hostages · James Crumley · ss Measures of Poison ed. Dennis McMillan, Dennis McMillan, 2002

68 · Death on Denial · O’Neil De Noux · ss Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press, 2002

80 · The Jeweler · Pete Dexter · ss Esquire April 2002

88 · Thug: Signification and the (De)Construction of Self · Tyler Dilts · ss Puerto del Sol Summer 2002

96 · War Can Be Murder · Mike Doogan · nv The Mysterious North ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet, 2002

115 · Richard’s Children · Brendan DuBois · nv Much Ado About Murder ed. Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime, 2002

137 · When the Women Come Out to Dance · Elmore Leonard · ss When the Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore Leonard, Morrow, 2002

150 · The Confession · Robert McKee · ss Eureka Literary Magazine Spring 2002

169 · Lavender [Easy Rawlins] · Walter Mosley · na White Orchids by Walter Mosley, Washington Square Press, 2002

199 · The Skull · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Harper’s Magazine May 2002

215 · The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us · George P. Pelecanos · nv Measures of Poison ed. Dennis McMillan, Dennis McMillan, 2002

231 · Sockdolager · Scott Phillips · ss Measures of Poison ed. Dennis McMillan, Dennis McMillan, 2002

250 · The Adventure of the Agitated Actress · Daniel Stashower · ss Murder, My Dear Watson ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf, 2002

270 · Home Sweet Home · Hannah Tinti · ss Epoch 2002

289 · Controlled Burn · Scott Wolven · ss Harpur Palate Winter 2002

299 · That One Autumn · Monica Wood · ss Glimmer Train #42, Spring 2002

315 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

327 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2002 · [uncredited] · bi

The Blue Religion ed. Michael Connelly (Little Brown, 2008, 0-316-01251-3, $24.99, 374pp, hc, oa)
A Mystery Writers of America Anthology. “new stories about cops, criminals, and the chase”.

· Introduction · Michael Connelly · in

· Skinhead Central · T. Jefferson Parker · ss

· Sack o’ Woe · John Harvey · ss

· The Drought · James O. Born · ss

· Divine Droplets · Paula L. Woods · ss

· Serial Killer · Jon L. Breen · ss

· A Certain Recollection · John Buentello · ss

· A Change in His Heart · Jack Fredrickson · ss

· The Herald · Leslie Glass · ss

· Such a Lucky, Pretty Girl · Persia Walker · ss

· Friday Night Luck · Edward D. Hoch · ss

· The Fool · Laurie R. King · ss

· Burying Mr. Henry · Polly Nelson · ss

· Oaths, Ohana, and Everything · Diana Hansen-Young · ss

· The Price of Love · Peter Robinson · ss

· Contact and Cover · Greg Rucka · ss

· Rule Number One · Bev Vincent · ss

· What a Wonderful World · Paul Guyot · ss

· Winning · Alafair Burke · ss

· Father’s Day · Michael Connelly · ss

Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation ed. Michael Connelly (Tor, March 2005, 0-7653-0739-1, $24.95, 352pp, hc, oa)
22 new stories by members of the International Association of Crime Writers.

11 · 10,000 Eyes in the Sky · Michael Connelly · in

15 · The Sunshine Tax · James Swain · ss

19 · Passline · S. J. Rozan · ss

31 · Dust Up · Wendy Hornsby · nv

45 · The Kidnapping of Xiang Fei · Michael Collins · ss

63 · Killer Heels Kill Twice as Dead · T. P. Keating · ss

75 · Iggy’s Stuff · J. Madison Davis · ss

87 · A Temporary Crown · Sue Pike · ss

97 · The Gambling Master of Shanghai · Joan Richter · ss

111 · House Rules · Libby Fischer Hellmann · ss

125 · Rolling the Bones · Tom Savage · ss

141 · Oddsmaker · Edward Wellen · ss

161 · The Dope Show · K. J. A. Wishnia · ss

177 · Death of a Whale in the Church of Elvis · Linda Kerslake · ss

195 · Neighbors · John Wessel · ss

213 · The End of the World (As We Know It) · Lise McClendon · ss

227 · Nickels and Dimes · Ronnie Klaskin · ss

243 · Even Gamblers Have to Eat · Ruth Cavin · ss

253 · The Magic Touch · A. B. Robbins · ss

273 · Catnapping · Gay Toltl Kinman · ss

285 · Miscast · Micki Marz · ss

303 · Lightning Rider · Rick Mofina · nv

321 · Grieving Las Vegas · Jeremiah Healy · nv

347 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Classics Mutilated ed. Jeff Conner (IDW Publishing, October 2010, 978-1-6001-0830-3, $16.99, ix+327pp, tp, oa, cover by Menton3)
Original anthology of 13 mash-up/remix stories, described as “CTRL-ALT-LIT fiction.” Authors include Nancy Collins, John Shirley, and Joe R. Lansdale. Illustrated by Mike Dubisch.

vi · Foreward · Jeff Conner · fw

1 · The Fairest of Them All · Sean Taylor · nv

27 · Anne-droid of Green Gables · Lezli Robyn · nv

49 · Little Women in Black · Louisa May Alcott & Rick Hautala · nv

79 · Death Stopped for Miss Dickinson · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv

109 · Twilight of the Gods · Chris Ryall · nv

139 · Pokky Man · Marc Laidlaw · ss

159 · Vicious · Mark Morris · ss

177 · From Hell’s Heart · Nancy Collins · nv

199 · Frankenbilly · John Shirley · nv

221 · The Green Menace · Thomas Tessier · ss

237 · Quoth the Rock Star · Rio Youers · ss

257 · The Happiest Hell on Earth · John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow · nv

289 · Dread Island · Joe R. Lansdale · na IDW Publishing, 2010

323 · Author Comments · Various · bg

Apex Magazine 2021 ed. Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore (Apex Publications, December 19, 2022, 978-1-955765-06-0, $27.95, 544pp, tp, an, cover by Marcela Bolívar)
Details taken from online listing.

· Root Rot · Fargo Tbakhi · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Your Own Undoing · P. H. Lee · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Love, That Hungry Thing · Cassandra Khaw · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Mr. Death · Alix E. Harrow · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· The Niddah · Elana Gomel · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· All I Want for Christmas · Charles Payseur · vi Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts · Merc Fenn Wolfmoor · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Barefoot and Midnight · Sheree Renée Thomas · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century · A. C. Wise · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· Black Box of the Terraworms · Barton Aikman · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run · Annie Neugebauer · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary · Sam J. Miller · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· The Life & Death of Mia Fremont: An Interview with a Killer · A. K. Hudson · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· This Is the Moment, or One of Them · Mari Ness · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· Throw Rug · Aurelius Raines, II · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· Mishpokhe and Ash · Sydney Rossman-Reich · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· All This Darkness · Jennifer R. Donohue · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· Demon Fighter Sucks · Katherine Crighton · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· Eilam Is Forever · Beth Dawkins · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· Without Wishes to Bind You · E. Catherine Tobler · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· How to Be Good · R. Gatwood · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· Osu · Kingsley Okpii · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· Survival, After · Nicole J. LeBoeuf · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· What Sisters Take · Kelly Sandoval · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· Cottonmouth · Joelle Wellington · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Next to Cleanliness · Rose Keating · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Discontinuity · Jared Millet · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Candyland · Maggie Slater · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Gift for the Cutter Man · D. Thomas Minton · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Wake Up, I Miss You · Rachel Swirsky · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Security Breach at Sugar Pine Suites · Pamela Rentz · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· Happy Trails · Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· Marked by Bears · Jessie Loyer · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· Spirits of the Broken Lands · Kevin Wabaunsee · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· When Evening Arrives · Tiffany Morris · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· An Incident at Hellpoint Prime · Norris Black · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· To Seek Himself Again · Marie Croke · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· This Shattered Vessel, Which Holds Only Grief · Izzy Wasserstein · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· In Haskins · Carson Winter · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· Whose Mortal Taste · Erin K. Wagner · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· Hank in the South Dakota Sun · Stephanie Kraner · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· I Call Upon the Night as Witness · Zahra Mukhi · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives · Renan Bernardo · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021

· Robin’s Last Song · Nina Munteanu · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021

· Godmother · Cheryl S. Ntumy · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021

· The Synchronism of Touch · Gabriela Damián Miravete; translated by Sally McCorry · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021
translated from the Spanish.

· Dreamports · Tlotlo Tsamaase · nv Apex Magazine #128, 2021

· Samsāra in a Teacup · Lavanya Lakshminarayan · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021

Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1 ed. Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore (Apex Publications, January 5, 2016, 978-1-937009-37-3, $15.95, 258pp, tp, an)
Data from Amazon.com as of 2016-01-16.
Details taken from online listing.

fc. · [front cover] · Adrian Borda · cv Apex Magazine #71, April 2015

vii · Foreword · Lesley Conner · fw

1 · Jackalope Wives · Ursula Vernon · ss Apex Magazine #56, January 2014

14 · Going Endo · Rich Larson · ss Apex Magazine #74, July 2015

22 · Candy Girl · Chikodili Emelumadu · ss Apex Magazine #66, November 2014

33 · If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love · Rachel Swirsky · ss Apex Magazine #46, March 2013

36 · Advertising at the End of the World · Keffy R. M. Kehrli · ss Apex Magazine #3, September 2009

48 · The Performance Artist · Lettie Prell · ss Apex Magazine #44, January 2013

56 · A Matter of Shapespace · Brian Trent · ss Apex Magazine #51, August 2013

67 · Falling Leaves · Liz Argall · ss Apex Magazine #60, May 2014

82 · Blood from Stone [Woodcutter Universe] · Alethea Kontis · ss Apex Magazine #43, December 2012

94 · Sexagesimal · Katharine E. K. Duckett · ss Apex Magazine #40, September 2012

106 · Multo · Samuel Marzioli · ss Apex Magazine #68, January 2015

116 · Keep Talking · Marie Vibbert · ss Apex Magazine #67, December 2014

126 · Remembery Day · Sarah Pinsker · ss Apex Magazine #72, May 2015

134 · Blood on Beacon Hill · Russell Nichols · ss Apex Magazine #78, November 2015

156 · The Green Book · Amal El-Mohtar · ss Apex Magazine #18, November 2010

166 · L’Esprit de L’Escalier · Peter M. Ball · ss Apex Magazine #16, September 2010

176 · Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) · Ian Tregillis · ss Apex Magazine #17, October 2010

195 · Build-a-Dolly · Ken Liu · ss Apex Magazine #47, April 2013

198 · Armless Maidens of the American West · Genevieve Valentine · ss Apex Magazine #39, August 2012

205 · Pocosin · Ursula Vernon · ss Apex Magazine #68, January 2015

219 · She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow · Sam Fleming · ss Apex Magazine #79, December 2015

238 · Afterword · Jason Sizemore · aw

Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory ed. Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore (Apex Publications, May 21, 2019, 978-1-937009-78-6, $29.95, 352pp, hc, oa, cover by Marcela Bolívar)
Details taken from online listing.

· Permian Basin Blues · Lucy A. Snyder · pm Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #7, October 2000

· #greenlivesmatter · Joshua Gage · pm Star*Line Spring 2016

· Glossolalia · John Hornor Jacobs · ss

· The Judith Plague · A. Merc Rustad · ss

· What the Mountain Wants · Maurice Broaddus & Nayad Monroe · ss

· Sympathizer · Karin Lowachee · ss

· Kindle · Brooke Bolander · ss

· What We Have Chosen to Love · Cassandra Khaw · ss

· The Society for the Reclamation of Words and Meaning · Fran Wilde · ss

· Scurry · Rich Larson · ss

· Everything Is Closed Today [A Song for a New Day] · Sarah Pinsker · ss

· Thirteen Year Long Song · Sheree Renée Thomas · ss

· Nobody Lives in the Swamp · Dee Warrick · ss

· Rage Against the Vending Machine · Russell Nichols · ss

· Hey Alexa · Meg Elison · ss

· South of the Waffle House · Marie Vibbert · ss

· Face · Veronica Brush · ss Apex Magazine #119, April 2019

· Choose Your Truth · Jo Miles · ss

· Oil Under Her Tongue · Rachael K. Jones · ss

· April Teeth · Eugenia Triantafyllou · ss

· Kill the Darlings (Silicone Sister Remix) · E. Catherine Tobler · ss

· Salted Bone and Silent Sea · Shanna Germain · ss

· To Write · Annie Neugebauer · pm

· The Skeleton Archer Speaks · Jeremy Paden · pm

· If the Fairy Godmother Comes · Mary Soon Lee · pm

· The Dolls · Christina Sng · pm

· Witch’s Star · Alethea Kontis · pm

· Plot Twist · Bianca Spriggs · pm

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