The Big Sandy Mountaineer -

A Measure of Darkness

by Jonathan Kellerman,

and Jesse Kellerman

It’s been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner’s Deputy Clay Edison. He’s solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man--earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. And his brother’s fresh out of prison, bringing with him a great big basket of crazy.

Then the call comes in the middle of the night. It’s a bad one. A party in West Oakland. An argument with the neighbors. A crowd in the street. Two guns, firing at random, spreading chaos and death. Nobody kno...