"Forbidden things" by Marcia Muller -- "New Moon and rattlesnakes" by Wendy Hornsby -- "Coyote Peyote" by Carole Nelson Douglas -- "Nooses give" by Dana Stabenow -- "Who killed Cock Rogers?" by Bill Crider -- "Caring for Uncle Henry" by Robert Campbell -- "Death of a snowbird" by J. A. Jance -- "With flowers in her hair" by M. D. Lake -- "The lost boys" by William J. Reynolds -- "Tule Fog" by Karen Kijewski -- "The river mouth" by Lia Matera -- "No better than her father" by Linda Grant -- "Dust Devil" by Rex Burns -- "A woman's place" by D. R. Meredith -- "Postage due" by Susan Dunlap -- "The beast in the woods" by Ed Gorman -- "Blowout in Little Man Flats" by Stuart M. Kaminsky -- "Small town murder" by Harold Adams -- "Bingo" by John Lutz -- "Engines" by Bill Pronzino.