I’m excited to share with you the cover reveal for the Sisters In Crime Los Angeles anthology, coming December 2024. Preorder to follow.

Publication Date: December 2024
Publisher: Level Best Books
Format: Print, Digital
Genre: Short Story Crime Fiction Anthology
Website: Sisters In Crime Los Angeles

Book Synopsis
The City of Angels has a dark side. Hidden beneath its shiny surface are misdeeds, miscreants, and murderers. From Santa Monica’s sandy beaches to Hollywood’s glitzy streets, from Boyle Heights to Holmby Hills to the dirt trails of the San Gabriel Mountains, there are so many tales to tell. So many people on the beat. The police detectives seeking justice. The reporters seeking truth. Writers who build beats into their movies and TV shows. And people who choose violence to beat others and come out on top. Angel City Beat is an anthology of stories that show life behind the plastic smiles of the rich and famous, the desperate pleas of the overlooked, and the promises of dreams forgotten. Angel City Beat is the beat of a city told by those who love her.

With an introduction by Naomi Hiraraha.  Contributing authors are Gail Alexander, Paula Bernstein, Anne-Marie Campbell, Jenny Carless, Ken Funsten, Daryl Wood Gerber, Sybil Johnson, Norman Klein, Aimee Kluck, Melinda Loomis, Kate Mooney, Nancy Cole Silverman, Meredith Taylor, and Jacquie Wilvers.

About the editor
Barb Goffman has been a finalist for major crime short-story awards 43 times, including 18 Agatha Award nominations (a category record), multiple nominations for the Anthony, Macavity, and Derringer awards, and one nomination for the Thriller Award. She’s gone on to win the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Silver Falchion awards. Her story “Dear Emily Etiquette” won the 2020 Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Readers Award, and her collection, Don’t Get Mad, Get Even, won the Silver Falchion for the best short-story collection of 2013. In 2024, she received the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Barb works as a freelance editor, often focusing on cozy and traditional mysteries.