Orange County Noir (Akashic Noir) (41 page)

SUSAN STRAIGHT is a native of Riverside, California, just
over the Orange County border. She has published six novels,
including Highwire Moon, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Million Nightingales, which was a
finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her new novel,
One Candle, will be published in 2010. Her short story "the
Golden Gopher," from LosAngeles Noir, won an Edgar Award
in 2008.

NATHAN WALPOW is the author of the Joe Portugal mystery series. His short story "Push Comes to Shove" was reprinted in the Best American Mystery Stories series. He is a
past president of the Southern California chapter of Mystery
Writers of America.

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ROBERT WARD'S 2006 novel Four Kinds ofRain was nominated for a Hammett Prize. He is a former writer-producer on
TV shows New York Undercover Hill Street Blues, and Miami
Vice. His latest novel, Total Immunity, was published in 2009
by Harcourt.