THE BEST PRIVATE EYE STORIES OF THE YEAR 2025

Guest Editor Matt Coyle and Series Editor Michael Bracken read hundreds of private eye stories, ultimately selecting the twenty stories included here as The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year. The included stories represent the work of long-establish private-eye writers as well as those just beginning their publishing journey, and they were found in genre publications such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, anthologies such as Private Dicks  and Disco Balls, and in unexpected publications such as Jerry Jazz  Musician-proving that the private eye genre is alive and well in short form.