Wisecracking reporter Dixie Flynn thinks fast and talks even faster—it's the only way to survive the San Francisco crime beat. When she's assigned to look into the death of her former lover, artist Diego Chino, Dixie's instincts tell her there's more behind the apparent suicide than the police are letting on. Dixie's canvassing of the Bay Area art district reveals it to be a perfect picture of corruption, with a handsome art dealer and a reclusive patron in the foreground. After a romantic evening in Chinatown ends in a brush with death, Dixie is more determined than ever to expose the truth. But when a fire in her vicinity turns out to be more than just performance art, it's clear the perpetrators would rather see Dixie dead than let her destroy their criminal masterpiece.

Grant McKenzie is the internationally-published author of seven edge-of-your-seat thrillers, plus a mystery trilogy set in San Francisco. His debut novel, SWITCH, was published by Bantam UK, Heyne Germany and Penguin Canada before launching in the U.S. from Polis Books. In translation, it is also available in Germany, Taiwan and China. His other novels include: Port of Sorrow, K.A.R.M.A., No Cry For Help, Speak The Dead, The Fear In Her Eyes and The Butcher's Apron.

Under the pen name, M.C. Grant, he writes the Dixie Flynn series published by Midnight Ink that began with Angel with a Bullet, continued with Devil with a Gun, and became a Shamus Award finalist with Beauty With A Bomb. His short story Underbelly appeared in the International Thriller Writers First Thrills anthology edited by Lee Child from Tor/Forge.

As a journalist, Grant has worked in virtually every area of the newspaper business from the late-night “Dead Body Beat” at a feisty daily tabloid to senior copy/design editor at two of Canada’s largest broadsheets, plus Editor-in-Chief of Monday magazine. He resides in Victoria, B.C., where he works with people experiencing homelessness and poverty.

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