Several of the authors from the book appear to read, greet guests and sign books!!!

Brand-new stories by: Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte.

Part of Akashic Books' Noir Series. Edited by Patrick Millikin

From Publisher's Weekly:

"The 16 stories in this stellar volume in Akashic's noir series paint a vivid portrait of the underside of Phoenix, where the gulf between rich and poor ensures "[c]rime, and lots of it," as Millikin observes in his introduction. The writers make superb use of locale so that the sprawl, desert, history and especially the heat become "characters" in their fiction. Among the standouts are Robert Anglen's "Growing Back," an unforgettable journey through a prisoner's consciousness, from the hell of his crimes and incarceration to the incestuous bed he shared with his mother; Luis Alberto Urrea's "Amapola," in which a teenage lothario makes the possibly fatal mistake of falling for a drug lord's daughter; and Laura Tohe's "Tom Snag," an updated version of the Native American shape-shifter myth as visited upon a hammered, horny barfly. Other contributors include Gary Phillips, Don Winslow, Lee Child, James Sallis and Megan Abbott. This book is an a must-read for noir fans."