Contents:

• Keller’s Last Refuge by Lawrence Block
• Safe by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Fatherhood by Thomas H. Cook
• Wrong Time, Wrong Place by Jeffery Deaver
• Netmail by Brendan DuBois
• Redneck by Loren D. Estleman
• And Maybe the Horse Will Learn to Sing by Gregory Fallis
• Poachers by Tom Franklin
• Hitting Rufus by Victor Gischler
• Out There in the Darkness by Ed Gorman
• Survival by Joseph Hansen
• A Death on the Ho Chi Minh Trail by David K. Harford
• An Innocent Bystander by Gary Krist
• The Jailhouse Lawyer by Phillip M. Margolin
• Secret, Silent by Joyce Carol Oates
• In Flanders Fields by Peter Robinson
• Dry Whiskey by David B. Silva
• Sacrifice by L.L. Thrasher
• Bech Noir by John Updike