The Best American Mystery Stories 2009, a volume in The Best American Mystery Stories series, was edited by Otto Penzler and by guest editor Jeffery Deaver.[1] [2] [3]
| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared | |
| N. J. Ayres | "Rust" | At the Scene of the Crime | |
| "My Interview with the Avenger" | The Virginia Quarterly Review | ||
| "Winning" | Blue Religion | ||
| "Big Midnight Special" | Shenandoah | ||
| "Beanball" | One Story | ||
| "Father's Day" | Blue Religion | ||
| David Corbett | "Pretty Little Paradise" | Las Vegas Noir | |
| M. M. M. Hayes | "Meantime, Quentin Ghlee" | The Kenyon Review | |
| "Two Thousand Volts" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | ||
| "Manila Burning" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | ||
| Rob Kantner | "Down Home Blues" | robkantner.com | |
| "My Son" | Thuglit.com | ||
| "Free Radicals" | The New Yorker | ||
| "Dear Husband" | Conjunctions | ||
| "Wanted Men" | Oxford American | ||
| Gary Craig Powell | "Kamila and the King of Kandy" | Red Wheelbarrows | |
| Randy Rohn | "The Man Who Fell in Love with the Stump of a Tree" | Loch Raven Review | |
| "G-Men" | Sideways in Crime | ||
| Jonathan Tel | "Bola de la Fortuna" | The Yale Review | |
| "This of Any Desert" | Las Vegas Noir | ||
Other distinguished mystery stories of 2008 honored in the volume were Jacob M. Appel's Ad Valorem (Subtropics), Ron Rash's Into the Gorge (Southern Review), Shelly Nix's Monkey (Hayden's Ferry Review), Leslie Glass's The Herald (Blue Religion) and Becky Hagenston's Midnight, Licorice, Shadow (Crazyhorse).