The people across the canyon/Margaret Millar -- Bodyguards shoot second/Loren D. Estleman -- Chee's witch/Robert Block -- Water's edge/Robert Bloch -- A Predatory woman/Sharyn McCrumb -- Lucky Penny/Linda Barnes -- Second chance/Edward D. Hoch -- Last rites/Linda Grant -- A Blow for freedom/Lawrence Block -- Nine sons/Wendy Hornsby -- Incident in a neighborhood tavern/Bill Pronzini -- The broken man/Marcia Muller -- Ghost station/Carolyn Wheat -- More like Martine/Charlone MacLeod -- Skin deep/Sara Paretsky -- Dead on arrival/Joan Hess -- Malibu dog/Kaye Kellerman -- Lieutenant Harold and the impossible gun/Margaret Maron -- Death flight/Ed McBain -- The second coming/Joe Gores --While she was out/Edward Bryant -- HOrn man/Clark Howard -- Faces/F. Paul Wilson -- Ride the lightning/John Lutz -- Afraid all the time/Nancy Pickard.