The Killing Rain

<p>The Puget Sound region is beautiful lush with green trees sun-sparkled waters wide-open spaces and white-capped mountains. It's also rich with darkness gunmetal gray skies rain-slicked streets and deep shadows that give cover to its darkest secrets. Small wonder that this corner of America is a high-demand lifestyle destination - and not so long ago the serial killer and Sasquatch-conspiracy capital of the country. <br><br><i><em>The Killing Rain</em></i> captures that delicious dichotomy in all its deliciously dark glory through short stories ranging from the cozy to the hardboiled all charged with depicting Seattle as a real or imagined place. These crime tales have been collected in conjunction with Seattle Shakedown - the name we've given to the return of Left Coast Crime to the Pacific Northwest. It takes place from April 10-14 in Bellevue Washington just a hop and skip from Seattle across Lake Washington. <br><br>And with enticing forewords from LCC Guest of Honor Megan Abbott and top-rank thriller author Jennifer Hillier <i><em>The Killing Rain</em></i> will be the perfect shivery companion for what's (almost) sure to be the Seattle area's shivery early-spring weather. Edited by Jim Thomsen who grew up on an island near Seattle and went to boarding school in the shadows of the nearby Green River at a time America's most prolific serial killer was just getting started. Coincidence? Good crime fiction doesn't allow for it!</p>