Miami Purity

A dark, unrelenting debut novel that propels fiction noir into the '90s. At thirty-six-looking-thirty, Sherry Parley determines to "get into the daylight, " after drying out from a three-month bender. But it's not daylight she finds when she hooks up with Payne, who's quickly learning how to tap Sherry's most violent and cold-blooded impulses.

Vicki Hendricks is the author of noir novels Miami Purity, Iguana Love, Voluntary Madness, Sky Blues, and Cruel Poetry. Ken Bruen is the two-time Shamus Award-winning author of the Jack Taylor crime novels, the Brant series, and London Boulevard, soon to be a major motion picture, written and directed by Oscar winner William Monahan (The Departed). He lives in Galway, Ireland. Megan Abbott is the Edgar Award-winning author of Die a Little, The Song Is You, and Queenpin. She also edited Busted Flush Press' female noir anthology, A Hell of a Woman. Her Damn Near Dead (Busted Flush Press) short story, "Policy," was the basis for her Edgar-winning novel, Queenpin. She has a Ph.D. in English and American literature.