As the fog of the Covid-19 pandemic lifts, some people are already calling 2020 a lost year-but not, it seems, in the world of crime fiction, which saw many of its best authors publishing stand-out stories during those long twelve months.
Under the auspices of New York City's The Mysterious Bookshop-which headquarters the Mysterious Press-Lee Child has selected twenty tales as the best of the year and, taken as a whole, they do indicate that, pandemic or no, 2020  was a boon year for the genre. Newcomers published excellent, well-received short works, as did household names-and you can find them all right here. 
Edgar Award-winning series editor Otto Penzler brings his decades of anthologist experience to this new annual from Mysterious Press, each of which will, going forward, feature a different bestselling author as guest editor. If you're a fan of mystery short stories, you definitely won't want to miss it.