The best American mystery stories 2002

Introduction / James Ellroy

It is raining in Bejucal / John Biguenet

Two-bagger / Michael Connelly

The fix / Thomas H. Cook

Summa mathematica / Sean Doolittle

Man kills wife, two dogs / Michael Downs

A family game / Brendan Dubois

The blue mirror / David Edgerley Gates

Inscrutable / Joe Gores

The championship of nowhere / James Grady

The cobalt blues / Clark Howard

Sometimes something goes wrong / Stuart M. Kaminsky

The mule rustlers / Joe R. Lansdale

Maniac loose / Michael Malone

Counting / Fred Melton

You don't know me / Annette Meyers

The high school sweetheart / Joyce Carol Oates

Harlem Nocturne / Robert B. Parker

Midnight emissions / F.X. Toole

A lepidopterist's tale / Daniel Waterman

The copper kings / Scott Wolven.