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  ROBERT WARD'S 2006 novel Four Kinds ofRain was nominated for a Hammett Prize. He is a former writer-producer on TV shows New York Undercover Hill Street Blues, and Miami Vice. His latest novel, Total Immunity, was published in 2009 by Harcourt.

  Table of Contents

  Foreword by T. Jefferson Parker

  Introduction

  PART I: ONLY THE LONELY

  SUSAN STRAIGHT Santa Ana Narrows

  ROBERT S. LEVINSON San Juan Capistrano

  Down in Capistrano

  ROB ROBERGE Tustin

  NATHAN WALPOW Seal Beach

  PART II: EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE

  BARBARA DEMARCO-BARRETT Costa Mesa

  DAN DULING Laguna Beach

  MARY CASTILLO Santa Ana

  2:45 Out of Santa Ana

  LAWRENCE MADDOX City of Orange

  DICK LOCHTE Laguna Niguel

  ROBERT WARD Dana Point

  GARY PHILLIPS Los Alamitos

  GORDON MCALPINE Anaheim

  MARTIN J. SMITH Balboa Island

  PATRICIA McFALL Garden Grove

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