Some great stories in here. George Pelecanos, Sara Gran, Luis Alberto Urrea, CJ Box, Wallace Stroby, Kelly Braffet, Gary Phillips, Ace Atkins, Willy Vlautin, and Joe Lansdale really bring it. I knew most of the writers but Braffet and Vlautin are nice discoveries for me. ( )

Fogmeister by Christine Feehan - 3
Fictionalized story based on a factual event. It was very dry, reading Dr. Porsche investigate why the car he helped design, crashed and killed a friend.

The Highway Kind is a collection of short stories of varying lengths by an all-star cast of writers including such famed authors as Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, and Wil Vilharo. The theme of these stories is the fuel-infected powerful rides that some men spend their whole lives working on and perfecting.

Even what seem like the tamest stories about test driving a "dadmobile" are not tame, but at a certain point become emotionally out of control (winters' Test Drive). Other stories are hard crime stories but are almost hauntingly beautiful tales of isolated farmhouses and what comes out of the cold wintry night (Box's Power Wagon). Connelly's Burnt Matches draws on familiar characters from his Lincoln Lawyer series. There are stories about desperation and others about road rage ( Stroby's Night Run). Atkins' Apache Youth takes us on a road through a reservation.

Lots of good stuff here. And too many stories to describe them all even briefly. ( )