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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Murder

I saw everything and yet I saw nothing.

I spotted La Strada in the distance. The rectangle of bright white light sucked me in, as it had every weekday night for weeks. As I left work at the university police station on the Cal campus in Berkeley, the evening was singularly dark, high clouds hiding moon and stars. A nip in the air. A storm in the making. It was midnight and I had just gotten off my second shift tour of the campus. My job was to break up an occasional drunken brawl at a dorm, be there for the co-ed walking home alone from an evening seminar, chase the sleeping homeless out of the bushes.

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Bio: Tim Wohlforth

Homepage: http://www.timwohlforth.com

Tim Wohlforth is a 2003 Pushcart Prize Nominee. He has received a Certificate of Excellence from the Dana Literary Society. Wohlforth has had forty-five short stories accepted for publication. These have appeared in Futures Magazine, Detective Mystery Magazine, Crimestalker Casebook, Storyteller, Orchard Press, Hand Held Crime, Plots With Guns, Mysterical-e, Hardluck Stories, Without A Clue, SDO Detective, StoryOne, Dana On Line, Echelon, CyberPulp, and Writers Hood.

His writings also appear in eight anthologies, including Cyber Pulp’s Down These Dark Streets and , Michael Bracken’s Fedora, Hardbroiled and Small Crimes, as well as Babs Lakey’s Dime.

A contemporary noir novel, No Time To Mourn, was published by Quiet Storm in April, 2004. Cyber Pulp has just published DYNAMITE!, a novella, as part of its new Dollar Chapbook series. It is simultaneously releasing the story as a print book. He co-authored the non-fiction book, On The Edge: Political Cults Right and Left, published by M.E. Sharpe.

Wohlforth moderated the short story panels at LCC Portland and Monterey, and has appeared on short story panels at LCC Pasadena, Bouchercon D.C. and Las Vegas. He is a member of The Short Mystery Fiction Society, Mystery Writers of America, Private Eye Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime.

“Wohlforth is always worth the time.” — James R. Winter in Thrilling Detective

“Like a great twelve-bar blues–the comfort of a familiar form jazzed by a fresh key and an exciting new voice — Lee Child

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