Brand-new stories by: T. Jefferson Parker Don Winslow Luis Alberto Urrea Gar Anthony Haywood Gabriel R. Barillas Maria Lima Debra Ginsberg Diane Clark & Astrid Bear Ken Kuhlken Lisa Brackmann Cameron Pierce Hughes Morgan Hunt Jeffrey J. Mariotte Martha C. Lawrence and Taffy Cannon.
From the introduction by Maryelizabeth Hart:
?The southwesternmost metropolis in the contiguous United States resting a mere forty feet above sea level tends to garner positive national attention. San Diego is home to the world-famous San Diego Zoo Balboa Park (with its history reaching back to the 1915-1916 Panama-California Exposition) temperate climes and a sunny reputation. It is also the home of shooter Brenda Ann ?I Don?t Like Mondays? Spencer disgraced Congressman Randy ?Duke? Cunningham and San Diego County medical examiner-turned-killer Kristin Rossum . . .
'The city is sometimes referred to as San Diego-Tijuana a conurbation with all its attendant border issues?illustrated in true noir fashion in Orson Welles?s classic Touch of Evil adapted from Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson. A ways up the coast from the border lies the grave of Raymond Chandler who resided in the wealthy enclave of La Jolla from 1946 to 1959; that area masquerades at ?Esmerlada? in Playback his final Philip Marlowe novel . . . I hope that reading this intriguing collection will result in you not just thinking of Shamu (the whale of SeaWorld fame) but maybe a shamus or two when America?s Finest City comes to mind.?
