Edgar Award finalist DENISE HAMILTON is the author of seven crime novels and the editor of the best-selling anthology Los Angeles Noir(which includes the Edgar Award-winning short story "The Golden Gopher" by Susan Straight) and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics. She is a former Los Angeles Timesjournalist, a Fulbright Scholar, a noir and sci-fi/fantasy geek, and a proud LA native who refuses to speak only in English. She is the editor of Speculative Los Angeles.