The Best American Mystery Stories 2018

About the Editors

Louise Penny, guest editor, is the New York Times and Globe and Mail best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels, most recently Glass Houses. She has won the CWA Creasey Dagger, CWC Arthur Ellis, Nero, Dilys, and Barry awards. Penny has been given the Anthony Award five times, and has won six Agathas, more than any other crime writer.

Otto Penzler, series editor, is a two-time Edgar-winning mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York’s The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than sixty crime-fiction anthologies.