Miles Corwin, a former crime reporter for The Los Angeles Times, is the author of three nonfiction books: The Killing Season, a national bestseller; And Still We Rise, the winner of the PEN West award for nonfiction and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; and Homicide Special, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. His novel, Kind of Blue, was named one of the Top Ten First Crime Novels by Booklist. Midnight Alley is the second book in the Ash Levine series.