A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author Lisa Unger and series editor Steph Cha. Master of the thriller Lisa Unger selects twenty mystery and suspense short stories that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023

Literature & Fiction

Unger, Lisa

Cha, Steph

United States

Mariner Books

An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller A Best Novel Finalist in the International Thriller Writer Awards A Bookspan International Book of the Month A CBS Best Summer Read A Cosmopolitan Hot Book A New York Post (Page Six) Hottest New Thriller A BookSense Best Book of the Month An Amazon Top Ten Thriller of the Year What if your family was a lie? What if your name was a lie? What if your whole life was just a pack of Beautiful Lies? If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the lie she used to call her perfect life. Instead, she's in the wrong place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that begins with a mysterious package on her doorstep. A package that informs her that her entire world is just an illusion. Forced to question everything she knows about herself, Ridley wanders into dark territory, where everyone is hiding something. Sexy and fast-paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller. Lisa Unger takes us on a breathtaking ride in which every choice Ridley makes creates a whirlwind of consequences that are impossible to imagine.

Beautiful Lies

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Vintage Books

Black Out

A Today Show Top Ten PickA Florida Book Award WinnerShortlisted for Prix Polar International Award for Best Book"A hurricane of a thriller." (Entertainment Weekly)"Harrowing psychological suspense." (People)"Riveting psychological suspense of the first order. If you haven't yet experienced Lisa Unger, what are you waiting for?" (Harlan Coben)On the surface, Annie Powers's life in a wealthy Florida beach neighborhood is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her. These are demons she can't fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget. Disturbing events trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future . . . and her daughter.

Arrow Books

An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller A Best Novel Finalist in the International Thriller Writer Awards A Bookspan International Book of the Month A CBS Best Summer Read A Cosmopolitan Hot Book A New York Post (Page Six) Hottest New Thriller A BookSense Best Book of the Month An Amazon Top Ten Thriller of the Year What if your family was a lie? What if your name was a lie? What if your whole life was just a pack of Beautiful Lies? If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the lie she used to call her perfect life. Instead, she's in the wrong place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that begins with a mysterious package on her doorstep. A package that informs her that her entire world is just an illusion. Forced to question everything she knows about herself, Ridley wanders into dark territory, where everyone is hiding something. Sexy and fast-paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller. Lisa Unger takes us on a breathtaking ride in which every choice Ridley makes creates a whirlwind of consequences that are impossible to imagine.

Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones, Book 1)

Shaye Areheart Books

Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones)

Crown

Instant New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger's second sensational thriller featuring Ridley Jones "bursts from the starting gate and never lets up." (Booklist, starred review) And it "will force you to stay up past your bedtime, just as you do with the books of James Patterson and Michael Connelly." (Richmond Times-Dispatch) A Best Book of the Month (BookSense) A Doubleday &amp; Literary Guild Book Club Main Selection "Unger's genius is in plotting the story so that the reader never knows what's coming next." (New York Journal of Books) In Beautiful Lies, Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception, and fear. Now, she is just trying to get on with her life when another seemingly mundane act--picking up some prints at a photo lab--sends her on a mission to find a ghost from her past. A figure of the same man appears in too many pictures she's taken in the last year, lurking just far enough away to make identification impossible. But, she is not the only one who wants to know who the man is, and soon finds herself in the middle of a deeper investigation and unsure who to trust. The only thing Ridley knows for sure is that she has to get to the truth about herself and her past if she is ever going to find her way home.

Sliver of Truth: A Novel

A Today Show Top Ten Pick A Florida Book Award Winner Shortlisted for Prix Polar International Award for Best Book "A hurricane of a thriller." (Entertainment Weekly) "Harrowing psychological suspense." (People) "Riveting psychological suspense of the first order. If you haven't yet experienced Lisa Unger, what are you waiting for?" (Harlan Coben) On the surface, Annie Powers's life in a wealthy Florida beach neighborhood is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her. These are demons she can't fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget. Disturbing events trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future . . . and her daughter.

Black Out: A Novel

Sliver of Truth (Ridley Jones)

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023

Beautiful Lies

Black Out

Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones, Book 1)

Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones)

Sliver of Truth: A Novel

Black Out: A Novel

Black Out: A Novel

Sliver of Truth (Ridley Jones)

Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones)