The Best American Mystery Stories 2015

“The Snow Angel” by Doug Allyn. First published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 2014. Copyright © 2014 by Doug Allyn. Reprinted by permission of Doug Allyn.

“Cowboy Justice” by Andrew D. Bourelle. First published in Law and Disorder: Stories of Conflict & Crime. Copyright © 2014 by Andrew D. Bourelle. Reprinted by permission of Andrew D. Bourelle.

“Rosalee Carrasco” by Tomiko M. Breland. First published in Ploughshares, Winter 2014. Copyright © 2014 by Tomiko M. Breland. Reprinted by permission of Tomiko M. Breland.

“Wet with Rain” by Lee Child. First published in Belfast Noir. Copyright © 2014 by Lee Child. Reprinted by permission of Lee Child.

“Red Eye: Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch: An Original Short Story” by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly. First published in FaceOff, edited by David Baldacci. Copyright © 2014 by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly. Reprinted by permission of Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly.

“Harm and Hammer” by Joseph D’Agnese. First published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, October 2014. Copyright © 2014 by Joseph D’Agnese. Reprinted by permission of Joseph D’Agnese.

“The Adventure of the Laughing Fisherman” by Jeffery Deaver. First published in In the Company of Sherlock Holmes. Copyright © 2014 by Gunner Publications, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Jeffery Deaver, Manager.

“Crush Depth” by Brendan DuBois. First published in Ice Cold, edited by Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson. Copyright © 2014 by Brendan DuBois. Reprinted by permission of Brendan DuBois.

“Molly’s Plan” by John M. Floyd. First published in the Strand Magazine, Issue XLIII, June — Sept 2014. Copyright © 2014 by John M. Floyd. Reprinted by permission of John M. Floyd.

“A Bottle of Scotch and a Sharp Buck Knife” by Scott Grand. First published in Thuglit, Issue 11. Copyright © 2014 by Zach Basnett. Reprinted by permission of Zach Basnett.

“Shared Room on Union” by Steven Heighton. First published in The Dead Are More Visible by Steven Heighton. Copyright © 2012 by Steven Heighton. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House Company, and Steven Heighton.

“Afterlife of a Stolen Child” by Janette Turner Hospital. First published in the Georgia Review, vol. LXVIII, no. 3, Fall 2014. Copyright © 2014 by Janette Turner Hospital. Reprinted by permission of the Georgia Review.

“Apocrypha” by Richard Lange. First published in Bull Men’s Fiction, Bull #4. Copyright © 2014 by Richard Lange. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Staircase to the Moon” by Theresa E. Lehr. First published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, September 2014. Copyright © 2014 by Theresa E. Lehr. Reprinted by permission of Theresa E. Lehr.

“A Man Looking for Trouble” by Lee Martin. First published in Glimmer Train Stories, Issue 90, Spring/Summer 2014. Copyright © 2014 by Lee Martin. Reprinted by permission of Lee Martin.

“Many Dogs Have Died Here” by James Mathews. First published in Iron Horse Literary Review 16.3, 2014. Copyright © 2014 by James Mathews. Reprinted by permission of James Mathews.

“Motherlode” by Thomas McGuane. First published in The New Yorker, September 8, 2014. From Crow Fair: Stories by Thomas McGuane, copyright © 2015 by Thomas McGuane. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Penguin Random House LLC for permission.

“A Kidnapping in Koulèv-Ville” by Kyle Minor. First published in The Normal School, Spring 2014. Copyright © 2014 by Kyle Minor. Reprinted by permission of Kyle Minor.

“The Home at Craigmillnar” by Joyce Carol Oates. First published in the Kenyon Review, Winter 2014. Copyright © 2014 by The Ontario Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of The Ontario Review, Inc.

“The Shot” by Eric Rutter. First published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, November 2014. Copyright © 2014 by Eric Rutter. Reprinted by permission of Eric Rutter.