Foreword / Otto Penzler -- Introduction / Lisa Scottoline -- Smothered and covered / Tom Barlow -- A fine mist of blood / Michael Connelly -- Misprision of felony / O'Neil de Noux -- Sailor in the picture / Eileen Dreyer -- Devil to pay / David Edgerley Gates -- Street ends at the cemetery / Clark Howard -- Crossing / Andre Kocsis -- Remora, IL / Kevin Leahy -- Thy shiny car in the night / Nick Mamatas -- Drifter / Emily St. John Mandel -- The ring of Kerry / Dennis McFadden -- Quarry / Micah Nathan -- So near any time always / Joyce Carol Oates -- Light bulb / Nancy Pickard -- Gunpowder Alley / Bill Pronzini -- Indian / Randall Silvis -- When they are done with us / Patricia Smith -- Don's cinnamon / Ben Stroud -- Bullet number two / Hannah Tinti -- Bound / Maurine Dallas Watkins -- Contributor's notes -- Other distinguished mystery stories of 2012.