Introduction / Jeffery Deaver --
My interview with the Avenger / Tom Bissell --
Winning / Alafair Burke --
Big midnight special / James Lee Burke --
Beanball / Ron Carlson --
Father's Day / Michael Connelly --
Pretty little parasite / David Corbett --
Meantime, Quentin Ghlee / M.M.M. Hayes --
Two thousand volts / Chuck Hogan --
Manila burning / Clark Howard --
Down home blues / Rob Kantner --
My son / Robert McClure --
Free radicals / Alice Munro --
Dear husband / Joyce Carol Oates --
Wanted man / Nic Pizzolatto --
Kamila and the king of Kandy / Garry Craig Powell --
The man who fell in love with the stump of a tree / Randy Rohn --
G-Men / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --
Bola de la fortuna / Jonathan Tel --
This or any desert / Vu Tran --
Other distinguished mystery stories of 2008.
