The Best American Mystery Stories 2011, ed. Harlan Coben & Otto Penzler (978-0547553962; Trade pbk; Mariner Books; October 2011) Foreword • ix Introduction by Harlan Coben • xiii BROCK ADAMS Audacious • 1 ERIC BARNES Something Pretty, Something Beautiful • 21 LAWRENCE BLOCK Clean Slate • 39 DAVID CORBETT AND LUIS ALBERTO URREA Who Stole My Monkey? • 64 BRENDAN DUBOIS Ride-Along • 86 LOREN D. ESTLEMAN Sometimes a Hyena • 100 BETH ANN FENNELLY AND TOM FRANKLIN What His Hands Had Been Waiting For • 113 ERNEST J. FINNEY A Crime of Opportunity • 127 ED GORMAN Flying Solo • 143 JAMES GRADY Destiny City • 160 CHRIS F. HOLM The Hitter • 187 HARRY HUNSICKER West of Nowhere • 215 RICHARD LANGE Baby Killer • 231 JOE R. LANSDALE The Stars Are Falling • 251 CHARLES McCARRY The End of the String • 278 DENNIS McFADDEN Diamond Alley • 320 CHRISTOPHER MERKNER Last Cottage • 336 ANDREW RICONDA Heart Like a Balloon • 349 S. J. ROZAN Chin Yong-Yun Takes a Case • 369 MICKEY SPILLANE AND MAX ALLAN COLLINS A Long Time Dead • 383 Contributors' Notes • 399 Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2010 • 411