The year in mystery and crime fiction : 1999 / Jon L. Breen -- A 1999 yearbook of mystery and crime / Edward D. Hoch -- Heroes / Anne Perry -- Rio Grande gothic / David Morrell -- The hanged man / Ian Rankin -- Spooked / Carolyn G. Hart -- Show me the bones / Carolyn Wheat -- A flash of chrysanthemum / J.A. Jance -- The man in the white hat / Loren D. Estleman -- '53 Buick / Gary Phillips -- Crack / James W. Hall -- Paleta man / Laurie R. King -- Snow / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- The canasta club / Eleanor Taylor Bland -- Unchained melody / Doug Allyn -- Something simple / Rob Kantner -- The circle of ink / Edward D. Hoch -- The death cat of Hester Street / Carol Gorman -- Dark times / Peter Crowther -- Those that trespass / Peter Tremayne -- Blitzed / Phil Lovesey -- For services rendered / Jeffery Deaver -- The tinder box / Minette Walters -- Symptoms of loss / Jerry Sykes -- Taking care of Frank / Antony Mann -- Styx and bones / Edward Bryant -- Not long now / Carol Anne Davis -- The shortest distance / Mat Coward -- I love everything about you / Marthayn Pelegrimas / Robert J. Randisi -- The case of the headless witness / Lloyd Biggle, Jr. -- The mummy case / Carole Nelson Douglas --Recycle / Marcia Muller -- Now what? / Donald E. Westlake -- Barking at butterflies / Ed McBain -- The dark prince / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rappin' dog / Dick Lochte -- Dream lawyer / Lia Matera -- Flood / Bill Pronzini -- The ice shelf / Clark Howard -- In for a penny / Lawrence Block.