Coast 2 Coast Mysteries: Coast to Coast: Murder from Sea to Shining Sea—Anthology released today, October 1, 2015

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Coast to Coast: Murder from Sea to Shining Sea—Anthology released today, October 1, 2015

From Down and Out Books. Co-edited by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks.

Crime in high places. Crime in low places. Crime from Coast to Coast. Twelve thrilling and mysterious stories.

With a Killer Cast Including:

4 Time Edgar Winner William Link • Grand Master Bill Pronzini • Scribner Crime Novel Winner William G. Tapply • Shamus Winner Paul D. Marks • EQMM Readers Award Winner
Robert S. Levinson (Bob Levinson) • Al Blanchard Award Winner James T. Shannon • Derringer Award Winner Stephen D. Rogers • Sherlock Holmes Bowl Winner Andrew McAleer and other poisoned-pen professionals: Judy Travis Copek • Sheila Lowe • Gayle Bartos-Pool • Thomas Donahue

“Envelope-pushers! A truly WOW collection by the best mystery writers out there – full of surprises only they can pull off.” —Thomas B. Sawyer, Bestselling author of Cross Purposes, Head-Writer of Murder, She Wrote

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Introduction

East Coast. West Coast. And “flyover country” in between. So different from each other and yet so much the same. Some years ago, maybe decades at this point—back in the day, if you will—there were more common threads in society. Everybody watched Ed Sullivan. We all watched the moon landing at the same time and the horrors of the various assassinations of the 1960s. Young people, at least, pretty much listened to rock ‘n’ roll—everybody was listening to the Beatles. But as time flew by, our cultural fabric frayed and now everybody’s in little niches that cater to their specific taste, from emo to country western to hip hop, from Breaking Bad to American Idol. And from Jane Austen to James Ellroy. Sure, there’s some overlap, but in many cases not much. So what’s the one thing everybody and every place from sea to shining sea has in common?

Crime.

Crime in high places. Crime in low places.

Crime in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace of Boston to the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the Port of Los Angeles. From the wind-swept sails of the New England shoreline to the transitioning Italian-American neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco and the Disney Concert Hall in L.A. Crime is everywhere, from the murky depths of Echo Park Lake and the body dump of the Angeles National Forest, to the clear waters of Oyster Bay and the beaches of Cape Cod—even Mexico City—in this collection of stories that range from hardboiled to suspense-thrillers. And while these stories differ in locale, climate, mood and the tone and voices of the various writers, they all resonate with the dark underbelly of crime.

Peel back the layers of the genteel onion of civilized society to see the corruption just below the surface. Peel back another layer and you see the real decay. Is it really that bad? You tell me. Do you lock your car doors when you drive, do you have alarms on your houses, do you avoid certain neighborhoods? Maybe you even own a gun. So you tell me, is it that bad?

And who better to bring you this melting pot of crime stories from across the county than such award winners as: Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini, Edgar Winner William Link, Shamus Winner Paul D. Marks, Sherlock Holmes Bowl Winner Andrew McAleer and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Award Winner Robert S. Levinson, et al. And no matter whether they were born and raised in Long Beach, New York, or Long Beach, California, each writer brings a different voice and perspective to the mystery-crime genre.

The stories in this collection are tied together by crime and murder, but they don’t travel a linear path from coast to coast. So sit back and enjoy this sawed off shotgun, I mean see-saw ride, between our two coasts.

Continuing in the tradition of the great pulp magazines, stories and writers, we offer you Coast to Coast: Murder from Sea to Shining Sea.

—Paul D. Marks,
from the mean, dark streets of Los Angeles

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Coast to Coast: Murder from Sea to Shining Sea—Anthology released today, October 1, 2015

From Down and Out Books. Co-edited by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks.

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