When the soldiers shot her father, a sixteen-year-old girl took an oath--and the name the rebels gave her: Inez. 'Inez' avenged her father. Afterwards, she was ready to move on. But it wasn't that simple. They said she couldn't just walk away. 'Inez' has one last mission. To deliver a package. In the City of Fury. What can possibly go wrong? Murder. Kidnapping. Betrayal. Everything.

Short Dark Fiction What does a child's first memory have to do with an Indian girl whose brother has just joined a terrorist group? What does a man in a dark Midwestern house have in common with a teenager running from the Buenos Aires Police? A misplaced biker and a boy whose sister is about to die? A policewoman hanging onto her sanity and a faded British pop star? They are the people we are. They share the same hopes and fears that we do. They walk about us every day and stare back from the mirror. Welcome to Out by the Trees. Eleven shorts stories, from one to thirty pages each, all with a dose of noir.

The Truth Doesn't Always Set You Free. In 1987, the dirty war that will last twelve years and kill thirty thousand Peruvians finally reaches up through the Andean cloud forest for Nina and her family. Nina's father is shot by soldiers, her mother raped, and her brother lost to the shadowy ranks of Shining Path guerrillas. And when Agustin Malqui, the village pastor, files a legal complaint against the military, it's no surprise when he disappears in the middle of the night-just another casualty of the military regime. Twenty-odd years later, Nina, now an officer in Cuzco's tourist police, comes across a familiar name on the police printer that she scans daily for any trace of her long-lost brother. Agustin Malqui is alive. After spending years in a political prison, the broken pastor has been wandering the country, saving souls and drowning his demons in pisco. Nina tracks him down, only to lose him yet again in a police sweep of political malcontents. But before Malqui disappears, he tells her a drunken tale she can scarcely believe: that her brother Miguel is still alive. Despite warnings and threats from her chief and the pleadings of her lover, an officer in Peru's anti-terrorist branch, Nina presses on to find Malqui. Her search takes her through Peru's underworld, from remote villages high in the Andes to the steaming jungle haunts of the narcotraficantes, and ultimately to a secret political prison in the altiplano, where she learns the truth about Malqui and her own vanished brother. From the Kirkus Review for Sendero: "Tomlinson's debut is golden...a lushly atmospheric novel consistently churning with intrinsic familial yearnings and authentic suspense...a vividly described journey throughout Peru's underbelly as the narrative gains momentum, hurtling toward a dramatic climax."

Who can you trust in a country haunted by its past? On the hunt for an abducted Indian beggar girl, Peruvian National Police officer Nina Flores is determined to track down the suspected kidnapper, a man who resembles what the locals call pishtacos: tall, pale ghosts who steal children. In spite of being jumped by a mysterious attacker, and the murder of a woman who gets too close to the truth, Nina is blocked at every turn by her superiors. Then she discovers links to a second case reaching back twenty years to the country's dirty war. Defying the powers that be, Nina forms a shaky alliance with a member of a brutal drug cartel and heads deep into the Amazon jungle. She will bring the lost one home, or die trying.