Personally chosen by acclaimed writer Tony Hillerman, the foremost chronicler of the modern west, here is a dazzling collection of extraordinary mystery tales. Included in this chilling anthology are twenty stories of suspense and deceit, all written especially for this collection. Explore the haunted and dark side of the land with some of the brightest stars in contemporary suspense. The list of renowned contributors reads like a who's who in modern mystery fiction, and includes: J.A. Jance, John Lutz, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Lia Matera, Bill Pronzini, and many more.

In settings that range from a torpid Arizona trailer park, to the freezing and isolated Alaska bush, from a narrow-minded Texas cowtown to California's lost coast, from the high-voltage glitz of Las Vegas to the repossessed farmlands of Iowa, this unique anthology hisses, rattles, and stings with a vengeance.

Contents: (all stories copyright 1994)

• Forbidden Things by Marcia Muller
• New Moon and Rattlesnakes by Wendy Hornsby
• Coyote Peyote by Carole Nelson Douglas
• Nooses Give by Dana Stabenow
• Who Killed Cock Rogers? by Bill Crider
• Caring for Uncle Henry by Robert Campbell
• Death of a Snowbird by J.A. Jance
• With Flowers in Her Hair by M.D. Lake
• The Lost Boys by William J. Reynolds
• Tule Fog by Karen Kijewski
• The River Mouth by Lia Matera
• No Better Than Her Father by Linda Grant
• Dust Devil by Rex Burns
• A Womans' Place by D.R. Meredith
• Postage Due by Susan Dunlap
• The Beast in the Woods by Ed Gorman
• Blowout in Little Man Flats by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• Small Town Murder by Harold Adams
• Bingo by John Lutz
• Engines by Bill Pronzini