The best American mystery stories: 2008

Mist / James Lee Burke

Mulholland dive / Michael Connelly

The hour when the ship comes in / Robert Ferrigno

One good one / Chuck Hogan

The monks of the Abbey Victoria / Rupert Holmes

Proof of God / Holly Goddard Jones

Tunis and time / Peter Lasalle

A day meant to do less / Kyle Minor

Child's play / Alice Munro

Win's girl / Thisbe Nissen

The blind man's sighted daughters / Joyce Carol Oates

The empty house / Nathan Oates

Car trouble / Jas. R. Petrin

The Emerson, 1950 / Scott Phillips

At the top of his game / Stephen Rhodes

Hothouse / S.J. Rozan

The invisibles / Hugh Sheehy

A different road / Elizabeth Strout

Given her history / Melissa Vanbeck

St. Gabriel / Scott Wolven.