Michael Simon pens gritty, true-to-life detective noir novels. His popular Detective Dan Reles mysteries feature the only Jewish, native-born New Yorker in the Austin P.D. Dan investigates the death of a young girl and the wounding of a little boy during an assassination attempt on a black community activist. 'Simon clearly has an eye and ear for Texas, along with the darkest places of the human soul .'-Tim Dorsey, author of Big Bamboo