Orange County Noir

You may be disturbed—or possibly titillated—to discover what can happen once you cross the Orange Curtain . . ."''There''s a dark side to most places,'' even California''s sunny Orange County, Edgar-winner T. Jefferson Parker observes in his foreword to this outstanding entry in Akashic''s noir series, one of the stronger of the all-original anthologies. The crisp, often seductive prose of the 14 ...