The best American mystery stories, 2001

Things that make your heart beat faster / Jennifer Anderson

Lobster night / Russell Banks

Prison food / Michael Downs

In the zone / Leslie Edgerton

The paperhanger / William Gay

A Book of kells / Jeremiah healy

Erie's last day / Steve Hockensmith

Under suspicion / Clark Howard

Her Hollywood / Michael Hyde

Family / Dan Leone

Blood sport / Thomas Lynch

Carnie / David Means

Tides / Kent Nelson

The girl with the blackened eyes / Joyce Carol Oates

Easy Street / T. Jefferson Parker

The big bite / Bill Pronzini

Missing in action / Peter Robinson

The face lift / Roxana Robinson

Big Ranch / John Salter

Push comes to shove / Nathan Walpow.