Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11 (Mammoth Books, Band 283)

41 fantastic short stories from Britain's leading crime writers

With this year's anthology of the most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK, Jakubowski has succeeded once again in unearthing the very best tales of noir and mystery. There are terrible crimes, puzzles to solve and twists in the tale, but, above all, there are plenty of wonderful, gripping stories to shock and delight.

Contributors include Simon Kernick, Val McDermid, Alexander McCall Smith, John Lawton, Lee Child, Stephen Gallagher, Christopher Fowler, Peter Lovesey, David Hewson and Tim Willocks, whose inclusion was long overdue. Also new to the series are the wonderful Will Carver, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Rhodes, Rhys Hughes, making a rare foray from fantasy into crime, Paul Charles, Howard Linskey, Peter Guttridge, with the winner of the 2013 Graham Greene Festival story award, and two popular children's authors, Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith, in criminal mode.