Literary crime fiction master Tom Franklin curates this volume of stellar noir from the Deep South.

At twenty-seven, Natalie Webb is already a has-been. A card-trick prodigy, she performed on the world magic circuit at eighteen but a liaison with an older performer ended disastrously after he stole her act and blackened her name. With her career over, she now lives alone with her pigeons and a pile of overdue bills in a New Jersey apartment. To make ends meet, Natalie agrees to write a magazine article on the art of cheating at cards. While researching in Atlantic City, she meets Ellen - a beguiling card cheat with a dazzling sleight of hand. Ellen has targeted a group of gamblers called the Midnight Riders - a hedge fund manager, a car dealer mogul and a Senatorial candidate - who play...

Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a party then murdered his wife and three-year-old daughter and disappeared. But everyone is wrong. Ramsey's daughter got away. Meg, now known as Melanie, is nearly 18 and sick of hiding. Melanie's determined to confront her father, but can she find him before he finds her?