Denise Hamilton is a novelist, journalist, Edgar Award finalist, and the author of seven crime novels set in her hometown of Los Angeles. She is also the editor of Los Angeles Noir, which features the Edgar Award-winning short story "The Golden Gopher," and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics, which includes stories by Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and James Ellroy. A lifelong fangirl of crime and speculative fiction, Hamilton is finishing a novel set in an alternate Los Angeles.