Crime Hits Home: A Collection of Stories from Crime Fiction's Top Authors (Mystery Writers of America Series, 3)
by S.J. Rozan, Naomi Hirahara, David Bart, Sara Paretsky, Susan Breen, Gary Phillips, Neil S. Plakcy, Renee James, Connie Johnson Hambley, Gabino Iglesias, A.P. Jamison, Walter Mosley, Tori Eldridge, Ellen Hart, G. Miki Hayden, Jonathan Santlofer, Jonathan Stone, Ovidia Yu, Bonnie Hearn Hill, Steve Liskow
Why You'll Love This
Twenty crime writers, one unsettling premise — the place you feel safest is exactly where the danger lives.
- Great if you want: diverse crime fiction with big names and fresh voices
- The experience: varied in tone — brooding, tense, occasionally quiet and literary
- The writing: each story redefines 'home' differently — range is the point
- Skip if: anthology unevenness frustrates you — quality shifts story to story
About This Book
Home is supposed to be the one place where the world can't reach you. This anthology takes that assumption apart, story by story, examining what happens when danger doesn't knock at the door so much as grow inside it. Edited under the Mystery Writers of America banner, the collection brings together twenty writers — veterans like Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky, and S.J. Rozan alongside fresher voices like Gabino Iglesias and A.P. Jamison — to probe a single, unsettling question: what does it mean when the place you love most becomes the scene of the crime?
What distinguishes this volume is how differently each contributor interprets the central theme. Home here is a neighborhood, a culture, a relationship, a body — and the crimes range from slow domestic betrayals to sudden violence. The result is a collection with genuine tonal range, where a quiet, melancholy story sits comfortably beside something harder-edged and propulsive. Readers who appreciate crime fiction as a lens on character and community, rather than just plot mechanics, will find this anthology particularly rewarding — twenty distinct voices, each one using the genre to say something true about where we belong and who we become there.