The best American mystery stories 2020

Justice / Pamela Blackwood --

Home movie / Jerry M. Burger --

Deportees / James Lee Burke --

Second cousins / Michael Cebula --

The surrogate initiative / Brian Cox --

Shanty falls / Doug Crandell --

The duelist / David Dean --

Security / Jeffery Deaver --

Rhonda and Clyde / John M. Floyd --

On little Terry Road / Tom Franklin --

See humble and die / Richard Helms --

All this distant beauty / Ryan David Jahn --

Miss Martin / Sheila Kohler --

The most powerful weapon / Jake Lithua --

Baddest outlaws / Rick McMahan --

What ever happened to Lorna Winters? / Lisa Morton --

Girl with an ax / John Sandford --

Pretzel logic / David B. Schlosser --

Nightbound / Wallace Stroby --

The last hit / Robin Yocum.