"Peter Brunold has a bloodshot glass eye to use the "morning after". It is distinctive, closely identified with him, and thus quite a handicap when a corpse is found clutching a bloodshot glass eye. Later, another corpse is found, with another...
Like many major cities, Denver is beset by gang violence. A cop shouldn't let it get to him, shouldn't take it personally. But when Gabe Wager's cousin Julio is found shot in an alley, murdered after denying to Gabe that he was involved in anything,...
For many years, some of the most vital, creative, and exciting fiction published in America has been in the field of mystery, crime, and suspense. Now Robert B. Parker and Otto Penzler — both Edgar winners — have assembled the best that 1997 had...