New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2015). First edition - Pelecano's first collection of stories - "A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, . . In the title novella . . - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script." 292 pp.