In this new and affordable volume are the best short mystery stories of the year as selected from magazines and anthologies. Mystery: The Best of 2002 is a collection of the best mystery prose written in 2002, by some of the genre's greatest writers.

Jon L. Breen, is the author of six mystery novels and over fifty short stories. Two of his books, What About Murder? and Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction have won Edgars, while Synod of Sleuths: Essays on Judeo-Christian Detective Fiction, co-edited with Martin H. Greenberg, won an Anthony.