Today is publication day for The Killing Rain:
Left Coast Crime 2024 Anthology. Published by Down & Out Books, the
anthology was edited by SMFS list member Jim Thomsen. The read is available from
the publisher,
Amazon, and other vendors. The
SMFS list members that reported their stories in the book are:
John Bosworth with "A Bad Place to Die."
Smita Harish Jain with "Oil and Water."
Bonnar Spring with "Go With the Flow."
Bev Vincent with "Payback."
Publisher Description:
The Puget Sound region is
beautiful, lush with green trees, sun-sparkled waters, wide-open spaces and
white-capped mountains. It’s also rich with darkness, gunmetal gray skies,
rain-slicked streets, and deep shadows that give cover to its darkest secrets.
Small wonder that this corner of America is a high-demand lifestyle destination
— and, not so long ago, the serial killer and Sasquatch-conspiracy capital of
the country.
The Killing Rain captures that
delicious dichotomy in all its deliciously dark glory, through short stories
ranging from the cozy to the hardboiled, all charged with depicting Seattle as
a real or imagined place. These crime tales have been collected in conjunction
with “Seattle Shakedown” — the name we’ve given to the return of Left Coast
Crime to the Pacific Northwest. It takes place from April 10-14 in Bellevue,
Washington, just a hop and skip from Seattle across Lake Washington.
And,
with an enticing foreword from LCC Guest of Honor Megan Abbott, The Killing Rain will be the perfect
shivery companion for what’s (almost) sure to be the Seattle area’s shivery
early-spring weather. Edited by Jim Thomsen, who grew up on an island near
Seattle and went to boarding school in the shadows of the nearby Green River,
at a time America’s most prolific serial killer was just getting started.
Coincidence? Good crime fiction doesn’t allow for it!
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