<p>Murder and mayhem by San Francisco North Bay Writers. Stories include "In the Mission" by David Beckman, "Cigarette Breakfast" by Gary Brandt, "His Mother Was a Whore" by Ed Coletti, "Lt. Oni Cha" by David Madgalene, "Gone Missing" by Pat Nolan, "Omar Olvidos Gets His Gun," and "The Big Bust" by Waights Taylor, Jr.</p>

Sons of Noir: Murder and Mayhem by San Francisco North Bay Writers

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Raskin, Jonah

Nolan, Pat

Beckman, David

Taylor Jr., Waights

Coletti, Ed

Brandt, Gary

Mystery

Round Barn Press

The Healdsburg Literary Guild is delighted to publish this new book, Healdsburg Alive!—Eight Sonoma County Writers Pay Homage to a Great Northern California Town. It follows a number of previous Guild publications, including Present at the Creation and three books entitled A Day in the Life of Healdsburg, in addition to several poetry chapbooks. This new book provided writers in the Healdsburg area with a four-session workshop in which to hone their writing skills along with an opportunity to publish their pieces. Armando Garcia-Dávila, Healdsburg’s 2002–2003 Literary Laureate, led the workshop. The price of admission included marvelous meals prepared by Armando. The workshops met four times in 2010—once in each season. Armando opened sessions with a discussion of writing prompts, techniques, seeds, and subjects the participants might consider. Writers were then on their own for about three hours to wander Healdsburg and surrounding areas in Sonoma County, looking for inspiration for a story or a poem. Although the stated premise of the workshop was to write a piece that matched each season, writers followed whatever muse grabbed them and led their pens in preparation of a first draft. The group then reconvened and writers read their drafts. A lively discussion followed, offering each writer comments, ideas, and encouragement. Armando then selected and edited pieces for the book. And voila, we have Healdsburg Alive! We hope you enjoy it.

Healdsburg Alive!: Eight Sonoma County Writers Pay Homage to a Great Northern California

Literature & Fiction

Garcia-Dávila, Armando

Jeremiah, Simon

Mechling, David

Mechling, Mona

Peasley, Chris

van Veen, Margo

Literary

McCaa Books

<p>"The body was bruised in several places. Dry blood and saliva were evident over parts of his face and near the mouth. Joe knelt down and read the piece of paper: mcgrath this here you last warnin. you and that black basterd rucker git outta town or you gonna be next." In Touch of Redemption, the second book in the Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker Detective Novels, the two men embark on a difficult journey—an attempt to find the murderers of Joe’s father twenty-five years ago. It is 1948 in segregated Alabama, and Joe, a white man, and Sam, a black man, face numerous obstacles, the least of which is the racism and bigotry of the time, while struggling with the challenges of solving a murder case a quarter century old. The men face corrupt judges and law enforcement officials, and a secret fraternity of men determined to maintain the Southern way of life and ‘the operation,’ their illegal liquor business. All this occurs against a backdrop of a seemingly bucolic small Southern town, Montevallo, home to a college for women.</p>

Touch of Redemption: A Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker Detective Novel

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