“These seventeen very different stories confirm just how many places L.A. has become … Janet Fitch, as usual, operates at a scary level of intensity. Her story, ‘The Method,’ opens with a string of zippy onel-iners that out-Chandler Chandler … I wanted to take my eyes off the page and couldn’t.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
LOS ANGELES NOIR 2: THE CLASSICS
edited by Denise Hamilton
336 pages, trade paperback, $15.95
Classic stories by: Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, Yxta Maya Murray, and others.
“In the 15 tales collected by Denise Hamilton for Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics, we enjoy a guided tour of urban crime in a city that some would call ‘ground zero’ for pulp fiction … Los Angeles Noir 2 offers nothing short of great entertainment for lovers of crime fiction.”
—El Paso Times
BOSTON NOIR
edited by Dennis Lehane
240 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*Finalist for Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus awards
Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O’Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, J. Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron.
“In the best of the eleven stories in this outstanding entry in Akashic’s noir series, characters, plot, and setting feed off each other like flames and an arsonist’s accelerant … [T]his anthology shows that noir can thrive where Raymond Chandler has never set foot.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
SAN FRANCISCO NOIR
edited by Peter Maravelis
292 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Will Christopher Baer, and others.
“Haunting and often surprisingly poignant, these accounts of death, love, and all things pulp fiction will lead you into unexpected corners of a city known to steal people’s hearts.”
—7x7
SAN FRANCISCO NOIR 2 THE CLASSICS
edited by Peter Maravelis
330 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Classic stories by: Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Jack London, Dashiell Hammett, William T. Vollmann, Fletcher Flora, Bill Pronzini, Joe Gores, Janet Dawson, Oscar Peñaranda, and others.
“This classics entry in Akashic’s noir anthology series boasts an impressive roster of names … [and] as usual, the overall caliber of the writing in this reprint volume is superior …”
—Publishers Weekly
PHOENIX NOIR
edited by Patrick Millikin
312 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*Winner of an Edgar Award; finalist for Anthony & Macavity awards
Brand-new stories by: Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Stella Pope Duarte, and others.
“The stories in this book are a collective treat, and you can read them in any order you like.”
—Arizona Republic
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