The best American mystery and suspense 2021

Return to India / Jenny Bhatt --

SWAJ / Christopher Bollen --

Neighbors / Nikki Dolson --

Mala suerte / E. Gabriel Flores --

Where I belong / Alison Gaylin --

With footnotes and references / Gar Anthony Haywood --

The good thief / Ravi Howard --

Everything is going to be okay / Gabino Iglesias --

Green-eyed monster / Charis Jones --

Potato sandwich days / Preston Lang --

Frederick Douglass Elementary / Aya de León --

Infinity sky / Kristen Lepionka --

Slow burner / Laura Lippman --

Mr. Forble / Joanna Pearson --

The killer / Delia C. Pitts --

Wings beating / Eliot Schrefer --

90 miles / Alex Segura --

Land of promise / Brian Silverman --

One bullet, one vote / Faye Snowden --

Let her be / Lisa Unger.