Best American series

Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year

Return to Indian / Jenny Bhat -- SWAJ / Christopher Bollen -- Neighbors / Nikki Dolson -- Mala suerte / E. Gabriel Flores -- Where I belong / Alison Gaylin -- With footnotes and references / Gar Anthony Haywood -- 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 -- 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