Audacious / Brock Adams -- Something pretty, something beautiful / Eric Barnes -- Clean slate / Lawrence Block -- Who stole my monkey? / David Corbett and Luis Alberto Urrea -- Ride-along / Brendan DuBois -- Sometimes a hyena / Loren D. Estleman -- What his hands had been waiting for / Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin -- A crime of opportunity / Ernest J. Finney -- Flying solo / Ed Gorman -- Destiny city / James Grady -- Hitter / Chris F. Holm -- West of nowhere / Harry Hunsicker -- Baby killer / Richard Lange -- Stars are falling / Joe E. Lansdale -- End of the string / Charles McCarry -- Diamond alley / Dennis McFadden -- Last cottage / Christopher Merkner -- Heart like a balloon / Andrew Riconda -- Chin Yong-Yun takes a case / S. J. Rozan -- A long time dead / Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.