By Peter Spiegelman

Brand-new tales by way of: John Burdett, Peter Blauner, Charles Ardai, Henry Blodget, Twist Phelan, Larry gentle, James Hime, Jason Starr, Lauren Sanders, Tim Broderick, Reed Farrel Coleman, Jim Fusilli, Mark Haskell Smith, and more.

Peter Spiegelman is the Shamus Award-winning writer of Black Maps (Knopf, 2003), Death's Little Helpers (Knopf, 2005), and crimson Cat (Knopf, 2007), which function inner most detective and Wall road refugee John March. Spiegelman is a twenty-year veteran of the monetary providers and software program industries, and has labored with banks, brokerage homes, and critical banks in significant markets all over the world. He lives in Connecticut.

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