Introduction
Sunshine is the new noir
Part I
The big heat
Bull
by Jon Talton
The eighth deadly sin
by Charles Kelly
Dirty Scottsdale
by Diana Gabaldon
Growing back
by Robert Anglen
Part II
Where the sidewalk ends
Amapola
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Public transportation
by Lee Child
Devil doll
by Patrick Millikin
Tom Snag
by Laura Tohe
Part III
A town without pity
Others of my kind
by James Sallis
Valerie
by Kurt Reichenbaugh
Blazin’ on Broadway
by Gary Phillips
It’s like a whisper
by Megan Abbott
Part IV
The cry of the city
Dead by Christmas
by David Corbett
Whiteout on Van Buren
by Don Winslow
By the time he got to Phoenix
by Dogo Barry Graham
Confession
by Stella Pope Duarte
About the contributors
