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Brooklyn NoirEditor: Tim McLoughlin
Akashic Books2004
The contents are:
- The Book Signing (Pete Hamill)
- Hasidic Noir (Pearl Abraham)
- No Time For Senior's (Sidney Offit)
- When All This Was Bay Ridge (Tim Mcloughin)
- Practicing (Ellen Miller)
- Crown Heist (Adam Mansbach)
- Hunter/Trapper (Arthur Nersesian)
- New Lots Avenue (Nelson George)
- Scavenger Hunt (Neal Pollack)
- The Code (Norman Kelley)
- Can't Catch Me (Thomas Morrissey)
- Case Closed (Lou Manfredo)
- Eating Italian (Luciano Guerriero)
- Thursday (Kenji Jasper)
- One More For The Road (Robert Knightly)
- Triple Harrison (Maggie Estep)
- Fade To ... Brooklyn (Ken Bruen)
- Dumped (Nicole Blackman)
- Slipping Into Darkness (C.J. Sullivan)
- Ladies' Man (Chris Niles)
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Brooklyn Noir 2: The ClassicsEditor: Tim McLoughlin
Akashic Books2005
The contents are:
- The Horror at Red Hook (H.P. Lovecraft)
- Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Borough of Cemeteries (Irwin Shaw)
- Tugboat Syndrome (Jonathan Lethem)
- The All-Night Bodega of Souls (Colson Whitehead)
- The Only Good Judge (Carolyn Wheat)
- Luck Be a Lady (Maggie Estep)
- By the Dawn’s Early Light (Lawrence Block)
- The Best-Friend Murder (Donald E. Westlake)
- The Men in Black Raincoats (Pete Hamill)
- The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Tralala (Hugert Selby, Jr.)
- The Boys of Bensonhurst (Salvatore La Puma)
- Steelwork (Gilbert Sorrentino)
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Chicago NoirEditor: Neal Pollack
Akashic Books2005
The contents are:
- Goodnight Chicago and Amen (Luciano Guerriero)
- The Gospel of Moral Ends (Bayo Ojikutu)
- Dear Mr. Kleczka (Peter Orner)
- The Near Remote (Jeffery Renard Allen)
- Destiny Returns (Achy Obejas)
- The Great Billik (Claire Zulkey)
- Maximillian (Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski)
- All Happy Families (Andrew Ervin)
- Monkey Head (M.K. Meyers)
- Zero Zero Day (Kevin Guilfoile)
- Arcadia (Todd Dills)
- Alex Pinto Hears the Bell (C.J. Sullivan)
- Pure Products (Daniel Buckman)
- Death Mouth (Amy Sayre-Roberts)
- Like a Rocket with a Beat (Joe Meno)
- Marty’s Drink or Die Club (Neal Pollack)
- Bobby Kagan Knows Everything (Adam Langer)
- The Oldest Rivalry (Jim Arndorfer)
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San Francisco NoirEditor: Peter Maravelis
Akashic Books2005
The contents are:
- The Prison (Domenic Stansberry)
- It Can Happen (David Corbett)
- Double Espresso (Sin Soracco)
- After Hours at La Chinita (Barry Gifford)
- The Neutral Zone (Kate Braverman)
- Le Rouge et le Noir (Alvin Lu)
- Larry’s Place (Michelle Tea)
- The Other Barrio (Alejandro Murguía)
- From Genesis to Revelation (Peter Plate)
- Deception of the Thrush (Will Christopher Baer)
- Weight Less Than Shadow (Jim Nisbet)
- Fixed (Jon Longhi)
- Briley Boy (Robert Mailer Anderson)
- Kid’s Last Fight (Eddie Muller)
- Confessions of a Sex Maniac (David Henry Sterry)
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DC NoirEditor: George Pelecanos
Akashic Books2006
The contents are:
- The Confidential Informant (George Pelecanos)
- First (Kenji Jasper)
- Capital of the World (Jim Patton)
- The Names of the Lost (Richard Currey)
- East of the Sun (Jennifer Howard)
- Solomon’s Alley (Robert Andrews)
- The Light and the Dark (Robert Wisdom)
- A.R.M. and the Woman (Laura Lippman)
- Cold as Ice (Quintin Peterson)
- God Don’t Like Ugly (Lester Irby)
- Coyote Hunt (Ruben Castaneda)
- Jeanette (Jim Beane)
- The Bottom Line (James Grady)
- Stiffed (David Slater)
- The Messanger of Soulsville (Norman Kelley)
- The Dupe (Jim Fusilli)
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Baltimore NoirEditor: Laura Lippman
Akashic Books2006
The contents are:
- Easy As A-B-C (Laura Lippman)
- Fat Chance (Robert Ward)
- Pigtown Will Shine Tonight (Jack Bludis)
- Over My Dead Body (Rob Hiaasen)
- The Invisible Man (Rafael Alvarez)
- Stainless Steel (David Simon)
- Home Movies (Marcia Talley)
- Liminal (Joseph Wallace)
- Almost Missed It By a Hair (Lisa Respers)
- Ode to the O’s (Charlie Stella)
- Don¹t Walk in Front of Me (Sarah Weinman)
- As Seen on TV (Dan Fesperman)
- The Haunting of Slink Ridgely (Tim Cockey)
- The Homecoming (Jim Fusilli)
- Frog Cycle (Ben Neihart)
- Goodwood Gardens (Sujata Massey)
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Dublin NoirEditor: Ken Bruen
Akashic Books2006
The contents are:
- Taking on PJ (Eoin Colfer)
- Black Stuff (Ken Bruen)
- Tribunal (Pat Mullan)
- Portrait of the Killer as a Young Man (Reed Farrel Coleman)
- The Best Part (Peter Spiegelman)
- The Ghost of Rory Gallagher (Jim Fusilli)
- Lost in Dublin (Jason Starr)
- Tainted Goods (Charlie Stella)
- Wrong ’em, Boyo (Ray Banks)
- The Piss-Stained Czech (Olen Steinhauer)
- Wish (John Rickards)
- The Death of Jeffers (Kevin Wignall)
- The Honor Bar (Laura Lippman)
- Tourist Trade (James O. Born)
- Hen Night (Sarah Weinman)
- The Man for the Job (Gary Phillips)
- The New Prosperity (Patrick J. Lambe)
- Lonely and Gone (Duane Swierczynski)
- Rope-A-Dope (Craig McDonald)
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London NoirEditor: Cathi Unsworth
Akashic Books2006
The contents are:
- Backgammon (Desmond Barry)
- Loaded (Ken Bruen)
- Rigor Mortis (Stewart Home)
- Maida Hell (Barry Adamson)
- I Fought the Lawyer (Michael Ward)
- I Hate His Fingers (Sylvie Simmons)
- Park Rites (Dan Bennett)
- Trouble Is a Lonesome Town (Cathi Unsworth)
- Chelsea Three, Scotland Yard Nil (Max Décharné)
- Love (Martyn Waites)
- Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Joolz Denby)
- New Rose (John Williams)
- Penguin Island (Jerry Sykes)
- She’ll Ride a White Horse (Mark Pilkington)
- South (Joe McNally)
- Who Do You Know in Heaven? (Patrick McCabe)
- Betamax (Ken Hollings)
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Manhattan NoirEditor: Lawrence Block
Akashic Books2006
The contents are:
- The Good Samaritan (Charles Ardai)
- The Last Supper (Carol Lea Benjamin)
- If You Can’t Stand the Heat (Lawrence Block)
- Rain (Thomas H. Cook)
- A Nice Place to Visit (Jeffery Deaver)
- The Next Best Thing (Jim Fusilli)
- Take the Man’s Pay (Robert Knightly)
- The Laundry Room (John Lutz)
- Freddie Prinze Is My Guardian Angel (Liz Martínez)
- The Organ Grinder (Maan Meyers)
- Why Do They Have to Hit? (Martin Meyers)
- Building (S.J. Rozan)
- The Most Beautiful Apartment in New York (Justin Scott)
- The Last Round (C.J. Sullivan)
- Crying with Audrey Hepburn (Xu Xi)
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Miami NoirEditor: Les Standiford
Akashic Books2006
The contents are:
- Ride Along (James W. Hall)
- Dead Storage (Christine Kling)
- Silence of the Stone Age (George Tucker)
- Sawyers (Kevin Allen)
- Blown Away (Anthony Dale Gagliano)
- One Man’s Ceiling (Tom Corcoran)
- Solomon & Lord Drop Anchor (Paul Levine)
- The Last of Lord Jitters (David Beaty)
- The Timing of Unfelt Smiles (John Dufresne)
- Boozanne, Lemme Be (Vicki Hendricks)
- The Recipe (Carolina Garcia-Aguilera)
- T-bird (John Bond)
- Swap Out (Preston Allen)
- The Noir Boudoir (Lynne Barrett)
- Machete (Barbara Parker)
- The Swimmers (Jeffrey Wehr)
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Twin Cities Noir: The Expanded EditionEditor: Julie Schaper and Steven Horwitz
Akashic Books2006
An expanded edition with four additional stories was published in 2013.
The contents of the expanded edition are:
- Someday All of This Will Probably Be Yours (John Jodzio)
- 16 mm Blues (Peter Schilling Jr.)
- Skyway Sleepless” Tom Kaczynski)
- Mai-Nu’s Window (David Housewright)
- Smoke Got in My Eyes (Bruce Rubenstein)
- Noir Neige (K.J. Erickson)
- Bums (William Kent Krueger)
- Blind Sided (Ellen Hart)
- Better Luck Next Time (Brad Zellar)
- Taking the Bullets Out (Mary Sharratt)
- The Guy (Pete Hautman)
- The Brewer’s Son (Larry Millett)
- Loophole (Quinton Skinner)
- Hi, I’m God (Steve Thayer)
- Eminent Domain (Judith Guest)
- Blasted (Mary Logue)
- If You Harm Us (Gary Bush)
- Chili Dog (Chris Everheart)
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Bronx NoirEditor: S.J. Rozan
Akashic Books2007
An anthology of mystery stories. The contents are:
- White Trash (Jerome Charyn)
- Gold Mountain (Terrence Cheng)
- Hey, Girlie (Joanne Dobson)
- The Woman Who Hated the Bronx (Rita Lakin)
- Rude Awakening (Lawrence Block)
- Burnout (Suzanne Chazin)
- The Cheers Like Waves (Kevin Baker)
- Jaguar (Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.)
- Early Fall (Steven Torres)
- Hothouse (S.J. Rozan)
- Lost and Found (Thomas Bentil)
- Look What Love Is Doing to Me (Marlon James)
- Home Sweet Home (Sandra Kitt)
- A Visit to St. Nick’s (Robert J. Hughes)
- Numbers Up (Miles Marshall Lewis)
- The Big Five (Joseph Wallace)
- Ernie K.’s Gelding (Ed Dee)
- The Prince of Arthur Avenue (Patrick W. Picciarelli)
- You Want I Should Whack Monkey Boy? (Thomas Adcock)
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Detroit NoirEditor: E.J. Olsen and John C. Hocking
Akashic Books2007
The contents are:
- Kill the Cat (Loren D. Estleman)
- Pride (P.J. Parrish)
- Panic (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Little Horses (Nisi Shawl)
- Red Quarters (Craig Holden)
- Migration (Craig Bernier)
- Night Coming (Desiree Cooper)
- The Coffee Break (Melissa Preddy)
- Snow Angel (E.J. Olsen)
- The Night Watchman Is Asleep (Joe Boland)
- Our Eyes Couldn’t Stop Opening (Megan Abbott)
- Honesty above All Else (Dorene O’Brien)
- Over the Belle Isle Boundary (Lolita Hernandez)
- The Dead Man’s Boat (Peter Markus)
- Hey Love (Roger K. Johnson)
- The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit (Michael Zadoorian)
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Los Angeles NoirEditor: Denise Hamilton
Akashic Books2007
The contents are:
- Mulholland Dive (Michael Connelly)
- Number 19 (Naomi Hirahara)
- Dangerous Days (Emory Holmes II)
- Midnight in Silicon Alley (Denise Hamilton)
- The Method (Janet Fitch)
- Morocco Junction 90210 (Patt Morrison)
- Over Thirty (Christopher Rice)
- Once More, Lazarus (Héctor Tobar)
- The Golden Gopher (Susan Straight)
- The Kidnapper Bell (Jim Pascoe)
- City of Commerce (Neal Pollack)
- Fish (Lienna Silver)
- Roger Crumbler Considered His Shave (Gary Phillips)
- The Girl Who Kissed Barnaby Jones (Scott Phillips)
- Kinship (Brian Ascalon Roley)
- The Hour When the Ship Comes In (Robert Ferrigno)
- What You See (Diana Wagman)
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New Orleans NoirEditor: Julie Smith
Akashic Books2007
The contents are:
- What’s the Score? (Ted O’Brien
- Two-Story Brick Houses (Patty Friedmann)
- Scared Rabbit (Tim McLoughlin)
- Schevoski (Olympia Vernon)
- Algiers (David Fulmer)
- Pony Girl (Laura Lippman)
- The Battling Priests of Corpus Christi (Jervey Tervalon)
- Open Mike (James Nolan)
- All I Could Was Cry (Kalamu ya Salaam)
- There Shall Your Heart Be Also (Barbara Hambly)
- Muddy Pond (Maureen Tan)
- Lawyers’ Tongues (Thomas Adcock)
- And Hell Walked In (Jeri Cain Rossi)
- Night Taxi (Christine Wiltz)
- Annunciation Shotgun (Greg Herren)
- Loot (Julie Smith)
- Angola South (Ace Atkins)
- Marigny Triangle (Eric Overmyer)
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Wall Street NoirEditor: Peter Spiegelman
Akashic Books2007
The contents are:
- At the Top of His Game (Stephen Rhodes)
- A Trader’s Lot (Twist Phelan)
- Feeding Frenzy (Tim Broderick)
- A Terrorizing Demonstration (Jim Fusilli)
- Town Car (David Noonan)
- The Quant (Richard Aleas)
- Make Me Rich (Lawrence Light)
- Rough Justice (James Hime)
- The Consultant (Peter Blauner)
- The Day Trader in the Trunk of Cleto’s Car (Mark Haskell Smith)
- Five Days at the Sunset (Peter Spiegelman)
- Today We Hit (Megan Abbott)
- The Basher (Jason Starr)
- The Enlightenment of Magnus McKay (John Burdett)
- Bonus Season (Henry Blodget)
- Everything I’m Not (Lauren Sanders)
- Due Diligence (Reed Farrel Coleman)
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Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the TruthEditor: Tim McLoughlin and Thomas Adcock
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- A Spring Afternoon in the Meadow, That ‘Long, Loud Scream' (Contance Casey)
- Sweet Cherry: R.I.P. (Christopher Musella)
- The Ghetto Never Sleeps, Mister Policeman (Robert Leuci)
- The Morgue Boys (Thomas Adcock)
- Fun-Time Monsters (Errol Louis)
- Getting to Know Mad Dog (Robert Knightly)
- True Confessions (Dennis Hawkins)
- The Body in the Doorway (Patricia Mulcahy)
- Snapshots (Tim McLoughlin)
- No Roses for Bubbeh (Reed Farrel Coleman)
- The Brooklyn Boogeyman (C.J. Sullivan)
- Slaves in Brooklyn (Kim Sykes)
- The Creamflake Kid (Jess Korman)
- Mommy Wears a Wire (Denise Buffa)
- Beef Kills (Rosemarie Yu)
- Sesame Street for Grown-ups (Aileen Gallagherl)
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DC Noir 2: The ClassicsEditor: George Pelecanos
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- A Council of State (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- Avey (Jean Toomer)
- Trouble with the Angels (Langston Hughes)
- The Man Who Killed a Shadow (Richard Wright)
- The Last Days of Duncan Street (Julian Mayfield)
- Washington (Julian Mazor)
- Cast a Yellow Shadow” (excerpt) by Ross Thomas)
- Reflecting (Rhozier 'Roach' Brown)
- Nora (Ward Just)
- Our Bright Tomorrows (Larry Neal)
- Kiss the Sky (James Grady)
- The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us (George Pelecanos)
- A Rich Man (Edward P. Jones)
- Wonderwall (Elizabeth Hand)
- Christmas in Dodge City (Benjamin M. Schutz)
- After (Marita Golden)
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Havana NoirEditor: Achy Obejas
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- Nowhere Man (Miguel Mejides)
- The Last Passenger (Ena Lucía Portela)
- The Scene (Mylene Fernández Pintado)
- Staring at the Sun (Leonardo Padura)
- The Dinner (Carolina García-Aguilera)
- Johnny Ventura’s Seventh Try (Pablo Medina)
- Shanghai (Alex Abella)
- Murder at 503 La Rosa (Moisés Asís)
- Murder, According to My Mother-in-Law (Arturo Arango)
- The Orchid (Mariela Varona Roque)
- What for, This Burden (Michel Encinosa Fú)
- The Red Bridge (Yoss)
- La Coca-Cola del Olvido (Lea Aschkenas)
- Roger Crumbler Considered His Shave (Gary Phillips)
- Zenzizenzic (Achy Obejas)
- Virgins of Regla (Mabel Cuesta)
- Olúo (Arnaldo Correa)
- Settling of Scores (Oscar F. Ortíz)
- Abikú (Yohamna Depestre)
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Istanbul NoirEditor: Mustafa Ziyalan and Amy Spangler
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- The Tongue of the Flames (Ismail Güzelsoy)
- Hitching in the Lodos (Feryal Tilmaç)
- The Stepson (Mehmet Bilâl)
- An Extra Body (Baris Müstecaplioglu)
- The Smell of Fish (Hikmet Hükümenoglu)
- All Quiet (Jessica Lutz)
- Around Here, Somewhere (Algan Sezgintüredi)
- The Spriit of Philosophical Vitriol (Lydia Lunch)
- One Among Us (Yasemin Aydinoglu)
- Black Palace (Mustafa Ziyalan)
- So Very Familiar (Behçet Çelik)
- The Bloody Horn (Inan Çetin)
- A Woman, Any Woman (Tarkan Barlas)
- Ordinary Facts (Riza Kiraç)
- Burn and Go (Sadik Yemni)
- The Hand (Müge Iplikçi)
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Las Vegas NoirEditor: Jarret Keene and Todd James Pierce
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- The Tik (John O’Brien)
- Pretty Little Parasite (David Corbett)
- Mitzvah (Tod Goldberg)
- Babs (Scott Phillips)
- This or Any Desert (Vu Tran)
- Benny Rojas and the Rough Riders (Pablo Medina)
- Bits and Pieces (Christine McKellar)
- Crip (Preston L. Allen)
- Three Times a Night, Every Other Night (Lori Kozlowski)
- Disappear (Jaq Greenspon)
- All About Balls (José Skinner)
- Atomic City (Nora Pierce)
- Dirty Blood (Celeste Starr)
- Guns Don’t Kill People (Bliss Esposito)
- Murder Is Academic (Felicia Campbell)
- The Road to Rachel (Janet Berliner)
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Manhattan Noir 2: The ClassicsEditor: Lawrence Block
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- Mrs. Manstey’s View (Edith Wharton)
- A Poker Game (Stephen Crane)
- The Furnished Room (O. Henry)
- Spanish Blood (Langston Hughes)
- Sailor off the Bremen (Irwin Shaw)
- My Aunt from Twelfth Street (Jerome Weidman)
- Johnny One-Eye (Damon Runyon)
- The Last Spin (Evan Hunter)
- New York Blues (Cornell Woolrich)
- The Raven (Edgar Allen Poe)
- Selections from Chelsea Rooming House (Horace Gregory)
- Selections from The McSorley Poems (Geoffrey Bartholomew)
- The Luger Is a 9mm Automatic Handgun with a Parabellum Action (Jerrold Mundis)
- The Interceptor (Barry N. Malzberg)
- Crowded Lives (Clark Howard)
- Young Isaac (Jerome Charyn)
- Love in the Lean Years (Donald E. Westlake)
- A Manhattan Romance (Joyce Carol Oates)
- In for a Penny (Lawrence Block)
- Two Over Easy (Susan Isaacs)
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Paris NoirEditor: Aurélien Masson
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- The Chauffeur (Marc Villard)
- The Chinese Guy (Chantal Pelletier)
- Big Brother (Salim Bachi)
- Berthet’s Leaving (Jérôme Leroy)
- Like a Tragedy (Laurent Martin)
- Christmas (Christophe Mercier)
- The Revenge of the Waiters (Jean-Bernard Pouy)
- La Vie en Rose (Dominique Mainard)
- Rue des Degrés (Didier Daeninckx)
- Dead Memory (Patrick Pécherot)
- (Precious) (DOA)
- No Comprendo The Stranger (Hervé Prudon)
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Queens NoirEditor: Robert Knightly
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- Alice Fantastic (Maggie Estep)
- Under the Throgs Neck Bridge (Denis Hamill)
- Golden Venture (Jill Eisenstadt)
- Buckner’s Error (Joseph Guglielmelli)
- Baggage Claim (Patricia King)
- Arrivederci, Aldo (Kim Sykes)
- Hollywood Lanes (Megan Abbott)
- Only the Strong Survive (Mary Byrne)
- First Calvary (Robert Knightly)
- Bottom of the Sixth (Alan Gordon)
- The Flower of Flushing (Victoria Eng)
- Crazy Jill Saves the Slinky (Stephen Solomita)
- Last Stop, Ditmars (Tori Carrington)
- Avoid Agony (Shailly Agnihotri)
- Viernes Loco (K.j.a. Wishnia)
- Out of Body (Glenville Lovell)
- Lights Out for Frankie (Liz Martínez)
- Jihad Sucks; or, The Conversion of the Jews (Jillian Abbott)
- The Investigation (Belinda Farley)
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Toronto NoirEditor: Janine Armin and Nathaniel G. Moore
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- The King of Charles Street West (Gail Bowen)
- Walking the Dog (Peter Robinson)
- Numbskulls (George Elliott Clarke)
- Filmsong (Pasha Malla)
- Wanted Children (Heather Birrell)
- Sic Transit Gloria at the Humber Loop (Sean Dixon)
- Lab Rats (Ibi Kaslik)
- The Emancipation of Christine Alpert (Nathan Sellyn)
- A Bout of Regret (Michael Redhill)
- Brianna South (RM Vaughan)
- Midnight Shift (Raywat Deonandan)
- Can’t Buy Me Love (Christine Murray)
- Tom (Andrew Pyper)
- A Taste of Honey (Kim Moritsugu)
- Stalling (Emily Schultz)
- Sick Day (Mark Sinnett)
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Trinidad NoirEditor: Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason
Akashic Books2008
The contents are:
- Pot Luck (Lisa Allen-Agostini)
- The Rape (Kevin Baldeosingh)
- The Funeral Party (Shani Mootoo)
- Dougla (Reena Andrea Manickchand)
- Nowarian Blues (Ramabai Espinet)
- Betrayal (Willi Chen)
- Bury Your Mother (Jaime Lee Loy)
- Standing on Thin Skin (Oonya Kempadoo)
- Woman Is Boss (Elisha Efua Bartels)
- Prophet (Lawrence Scott)
- How to Make Photocopies in the Trinidad & Tobago National Archives (Robert Antoni)
- The Best Laid Plans (Darby Maloney)
- The Jaguar (Keith Jardim)
- Eric’s Turn (Rian Marie Extavour)
- Lucille (Elizabeth Nunez)
- Peacock Blue (Vahni Capildeo)
- Dark Nights (Judith Theodore)
- Gita Pinky Manachandi (Tiphanie Yanique)
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Phoenix NoirEditor: Patrick Millikin
Akashic Books2009
The contents are:
- Bull (Jon Talton)
- The Eighth Deadly Sin (Charles Kelly)
- Dirty Scottsdale (Diana Gabaldon)
- Growing Back (Robert Anglen)
- Amapola (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- Public Transportation (Lee Child)
- Devil Doll (Patrick Milliken)
- Tom Snag (Laura Tohe)
- Others of My Kind (James Sallis)
- Valerie (Kurt Reichenbaugh)
- Blazin’ on Broadway (Gary Phillips)
- It’s Like a Whisper (Megan Abbott)
- Dead by Christmas (David Corbett)
- Whiteout on Van Buren (Don Winslow)
- By the Time He Got to Phoenix (Dogo Barry Graham)
- Confession (Stella Pope Duarte)
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Portland NoirEditor: Kevin Sampsell
Akashic Books2009
The contents are:
- The Clown and Bard (Karen Karbo)
- Julia Now (Luciana Lopez)
- Water under the Bridge (Ariel Gore)
- Alzheimer’s Noir (Floyd Skloot)
- The Sleeper (Dan DeWeese)
- The Wrong House (Jonathan Selwood)
- Baby, I’m Here (Monica Drake)
- Coffee, Black (Bill Cameron)
- Gone Doggy Gone (Jamie S. Rich & Joëlle Jones)
- Virgo (Jess Walter)
- The Red Room (Chris A. Bolton)
- Burnside Forever (Justin Hocking)
- Hummingbird (Zoe Trope)
- Shanghaied (Gigi Little)
- Lila (Megan Kruse)
- People Are Strange (Kimberly Warner-Cohen)
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San Francisco Noir 2: The ClassicsEditor: Peter Maravelis
Akashic Books2009
The contents are:
- A Watcher By the Dead (Ambrose Bierce)
- The Third Circle (Frank Norris)
- The Black Hole of San Francisco (Mark Twain)
- South of the Slot (Jack London)
- The Scorched Face (Dashiell Hammett)
- The Collector Comes After Payday (Fletcher Flora)
- Souls Burning (Bill Pronzini)
- The Second Coming (Joe Gores)
- Knives in the Dark (Don Herron)
- Christ Walked Down Market Street (Ernest J. Gaines)
- Deceptions (Marcia Muller)
- The King Butcher of Bristol Bay (Oscar Peñaranda)
- Invisible Time (Janet Dawson)
- Street Court (Seth Morgan)
- The Numbers Game (Craig Clevenger)
- The Woman Who Laughed (William T. Vollmann)
- Ash (John Shirley)
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Seattle NoirEditor: Curt Colbert
Akashic Books2009
The contents are:
- Blood Tide (Thomas P. Hopp)
- Promised Tulips (Bharti Kirchner)
- Golden Gardens (Stephan Magcosta)
- The Center of the Universe (Robert Lopresti)
- Blue Sunday (Kathleen Alcalá)
- The Taskmasters (Simon Wood)
- What Price Retribution? (Patricia Harrington)
- Till Death Do Us . . . (Curt Colbert)
- The Best View in Town (Paul S. Piper)
- The Wrong End of a Gun (R. Barri Flowers)
- Paper Son (Brian Thornton)
- The Magnolia Bluff (Skye Moody)
- Sherlock’s Opera (Lou Kemp)
- Food for Thought (G.M. Ford)
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Rome NoirEditor: Chiara Stangalino and Maxim Jakubowski
Akashic Books2009
The contents are:
- Pasolini’s Shadow (Nicoletta Vallorani)
- Eternal Rome (Antonio Scurati)
- The Melting Pot (Tommaso Pincio)
- Last Summer Together (Cristiana Danila Formetta)
- Don’t Talk to the Passenger (Diego De Silva)
- Roman Holidays (Enrico Franceschini)
- Tiburtina Noir Blues (Francesca Mazzucato)
- Words, Thoughts (Marcello Fois)
- Christmas Eves (Gianrico Carofiglio)
- Beret (Carlo Lucarelli)
- Remember Me with Kindness (Maxim Jakubowski)
- Eaten Alive (Evelina Santangelo)
- For a Few More Gold Tokens (Antonio Pascale)
- Silence Is Golden (Boosta)
- Caput Mundi (Giuseppe Genna)
- 1988 (Nicola Lagioia)
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Delhi NoirEditor: Hirsh Sawhney
Akashic Books2009
The contents are:
- Yesterday Man (Omair Ahmad)
- How I Lost My Clothes (Radhika Jha)
- Last In, First Out (Irwin Allan Sealy)
- Parking (Ruchir Joshi)
- Hissing Cobras (Nalinaksha Bhattacharya)
- The Railway Aunty (Mohan Sikka)
- Hostel (Siddharth Chowdhury)
- Small Fry (Meera Nair)
- Fit of Rage (Palash Krishna Mehrotra)
- Just Another Death (Hartosh Singh Bal)
- Gautam Under a Tree (Hirsh Sawhney)
- The Scam (Tabish Khair)
- The Walls of Delhi (Uday Prakash)
- Cull (Manjula Padmanabhan)
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Boston NoirEditor: Dennis Lehane
Akashic Books2010
The contents are:
- Exit Interview (Lynne Heitman)
- Animal Rescue (Dennis Lehane)
- The Place Where He Belongs (Jim Fusilli)
- Dark Waters (Patricia Powell)
- Femme Sole (Dana Cameron)
- The Dark Island (Brendan DuBois)
- The Reward (Stewart O’Nan)
- The Cross-Eyed Bear (John Dufresne)
- The Oriental Hair Poets (Don Lee)
- The Collar (J. Itabari Njeri)
- Turn Speed (Russ Aborn)
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Philadelphia NoirEditor: Carlin Romano
Akashic Books2010
The contents are:
- Princess (Aimee LaBrie)
- Scarred (Solomon Jones)
- Secret Pool (Asali Solomon)
- Devil’s Pocket (Keith Gilman)
- Above the Imperial (Dennis Tafoya)
- A Cut Above (Laura Spagnoli)
- Swimming (Halimah Marcus)
- Fishtown Odyssey (Meredith Anthony)
- Your Brother, Who Loves You (Jim Zervanos)
- Cannot Easy Normal Die (Carlin Romano)
- Seeing Nothing (Diane Ayres)
- Lonergan’s Girl (Duane Swierczynski)
- Reality (Cordelia Frances Biddle)
- The Ratcatcher (Gerald Koplan)
- Ghost Walk (Cary Holladay)
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Richmond NoirEditor: Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry and Tom De Haven
Akashic Books2010
The contents are:
- The Rose Red Vial (Pir Rothenberg)
- Homework (David L. Robbins)
- Gaia (Mina Beverly)
- Texas Beach (Dennis Danvers)
- The Battle of Belle Isle (Clay McLeod Chapman)
- A Late-Night Fishing Trip (X.C. Atkins)
- The Heart Is a Strange Muscle (Laura Browder)
- The Fall Lines (Dean King)
- Playing with DaBlonde (Tom De Haven)
- Midnight at the Oasis (Anne Thomas Soffee)
- Untitled (Meagan J. Saunders)
- Marco’s Broken English by Conrad Ashley Persons)
- The Thirteenth Floor (Howard Owen)
- Mr. Not (Hermine Pinson)
- The Apprentice (Clint McCown)
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Indian Country NoirEditor: Sarah Cortez and Liz Martínez
Akashic Books2010
The contents are:
- Helper (Joseph Bruchac)
- Osprey Lake (Jean Rae Baxter)
- Dead Medicine Snake Woman (Gerard Houarner)
- Indian Time (Melissa Yi)
- On Drowning Pond (A.A. HedgeCoke)
- Daddy’s Girl (Mistina Bates)
- The Raven and the Wolf (O’Neil De Noux)
- Juracán (R. Narvaez)
- JaneJohnDoe.com (David Cole)
- Lame Elk (Leonard Schonberg)
- Another Role (Reed, Farrel Coleman)
- Getting Lucky (Lawrence Block)
- Prowling Wolves (Liz Martínez)
- Quilt like a Night Sky (Kimberly Roppolo)
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Orange County NoirEditor: Gary Phillips
Akashic Books2010
The contents are:
- Foreword (T. Jefferson Parker)
- Bee Canyon (Susan Straight)
- Down in Capistrano (Robert S. Levinson)
- Diverters (Rob Roberge)
- A Good Day’s Work (Nathan Walpow)
Crazy for You (Barbara DeMarco-Barrett)
- The Toll (Dan Duling)
- 2:45 Out of Santa Ana (Mary Castillo)
- Old, Cold Hand (Lawrence Maddox)
- The Movie Game (Dick Lochte)
- Black Star Canyon (Robert Ward)
- The Performer (Gary Phillips)
- The Happiest Place (Gordon McAlpine)
- Dark Matter (Martin J. Smith)
- On the Night in Question (Patricia McFall)
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Lone Star NoirEditor: Bobby Byrd and Johnny Byrd
Akashic Books2010
The contents are:
- Phelan’s First Case (Lisa Sandlin)
- Catgirl (Claudia Smith)
- Who Stole My Monkey? (David Corbett & Luis Alberto Urrea)
- Six Dead Cabbies (Tim Tingle)
- Luck (James Crumley)
- Preacher’s Kid (Jessica Powers)
- Six-Finger Jack (Joe R. Lansdale)
- Duckweed (George Wier)
- Cherry Coke (Milton T. Burton)
- Montgomery Clift (Sarah Cortez)
- Moral Hazard (Jesse Sublett)
- Bottomed Out”by Dean James)
- Crank (Ito Romo)
- The Dead Man’s Wife (Bobby Byrd)
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Mexico City NoirEditor: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Akashic Books2010
The contents are:
- I’m Nobody (Eduardo Antonio Parra)
- Private Collection (Bernardo Fernández)
- The Corner (Pacio Ignacio Taibo II)
- The Unsmiling Comedian (F.G. Haghenbeck)
- BANG! (Juan Hernández Luna)
- Judas Burning (Eugenio Aguirre)
- Violeta Isn’t Here Anymore (Myriam Laurini)
- Outside the Door (Óscar de la Borbolla)
- A Squirrel without a Tree (Rolo Diez)
- God Is Fanatical, Hija (Eduardo Monteverde)
- Of Cats and Murderers (Víctor Luiz González)
- RENO (Julia Rodríguez)
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Moscow NoirEditor: Natalia Smirnova and Julia Goumen
Akashic Books2010
The contents are:
- The Mercy Bus (Anna Starobinets)
- Gold and Heroin (Vyacheslav Kuritsyn)
- In the New Development (Ludmilla Petrushevskaya)
- Wait (Andrei Khusnutdinov)
- Field of a Thousand Corpses (Alexander Anuchkin)
- Pure Ponds, Dirty Sex, or Two Army Buddies Meet (Vladimir Tuchkov)
- Decameron (Igor Zotov)
- The Doppelgänger (Gleb Shulpyakov)
- Daddy Loves Me (Maxim Maximov)
- Christmas (Irina Denezhkina)
- The Point of No Return (Sergei Samsonov)
- The Coat that Smelled like Earth (Dmitry Kosyrev)
- Europe after the Rain (Alexei Evdokimov)
- Moscow Reincarnations (Sergei Kuznetsov)
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Los Angeles Noir 2: The ClassicsEditor: Denise Hamilton
Akashic Books2010
The contents are:
- I’ll Be Waiting (Raymond Chandler)
- Murder in Blue (Paul Cain)
- I Feel Bad Killing You (Leigh Brackett)
- Dead Man (James M. Cain)
- The Night’s for Cryin' (Chester Himes)
- Find the Woman (Ross Macdonald)
- The Chirashi Covenant (Naomi Hirahara)
- High Darktown (James Ellroy)
- The People Across the Canyon (Margaret Millar)
- Surf (Joseph Hansen)
- The Kerman Kill (William Campbell Gault)
- Crimson Shadow (Walter Mosley)
- Rika (Jervey Tervalon)
- Lucía (Yxta Maya Murray)
- Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
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Pittsburgh NoirEditor: Kathleen George
Akashic Books2011
The contents are:
- Atom Smasher (Lila Shaara)
- Still Air (Terrance Hayes)
- Duplex (Steward O’Nan)
- Pray for Rain (Nancy Martin)
- A Minor Extinction (Paul Lee)
- When Johnny Came Shuffling Home (K.C. Constantine)
- Intruder (Kathleen George)
- Loaded (Rebecca Drake)
- Far Beneath (Carlos Antonio Delgado)
- At the Buena Vista (Hilary Masters)
- Homecoming (Kathryn Miller Haines)
- Cheater (Aubrey Hirsch)
- Key Drop (Tom Lipinski)
- Overheard (Reginald McKnight)
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New Jersey NoirEditor: Joyce Carol Oates
Akashic Books2011
The contents are:
- Live for Today (S.A. Solomon)
- Soul Anatomy (Lou Manfredo)
- New Day Newark (S.J. Rozan)
- Newark Black: 1940-1954 (C.K. Williams)
- Lola (Jonathan Santlofer)
- The Enigma of Grover’s Mill (Bradford Morrow)
- Broken Glass (Gerald Stern)
- Wunderlich (Sheila Kohler)
- Atlantis (Richard Burgin)
- August: Feeding Frenzy (Alicia Ostriker)
- A Bag for Nicholas (Hirsh Sawhney)
- Glass Eels (Jeffrey Ford)
- Meadowlands Spike (Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini)
- Kettle Run (Robert Arellano)
- Noir, NJ (Paul Muldoon)
- Too Near Real (Jonathan Safran Foer)
- Excavation (Edmund White & Michael Carroll)
- Long Branch Underground (Robert Pinsky)
- Run Kiss Daddy (Joyce Carol Oates)
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Cape Cod NoirEditor: David L. Ulin
Akashic Books2011
The contents are:
- Ten-Year Plan (William Hastings)
- Second Chance (Elyssa East)
- Ardent (Dana Cameron)
- Nineteen Snapshots of Dennisport (Paul Tremblay)
- Variations on a Fifty-Pound Bale (Adam Mansbach)
- Bad Night in Hyannisport (Seth Greenland)
- Spectacle Pond (Lizzie Skurnick)
- La Jetee (David L. Ulin)
- The Occidental Tourist (Kaylie Jones)
- The Exchange Student (Fred G. Leebron)
- Viva Regina (Ben Greenman)
- When Death Shines Bright (Dave Zeltserman)
- Twenty-Eight Scenes for Neglected Guests (Jedediah Berry)
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San Diego NoirEditor: Maryelizabeth Hart
Akashic Books2011
The contents are:
- Vic Primeval (T. Jefferson Parker)
- The Home Front (Diane Clark & Astrid Bear)
- Gold Shield Blues (Jeffrey J. Mariotte)
- Key Witness (Martha C. Lawrence)
- The New Girl (Debra Ginsberg)
- Instant Karma (Taffy Cannon)
- The Angel’s Share (Morgan Hunt)
- Homes (Ken Kuhlken)
- After Thirty (Don Winslow)
- Don’t Feed the Bums (Lisa Brackmann)
- Moving Black Objects (Cameron Pierce Hughes)
- The Roads (Gabriel R. Barillas)
- Like Something Out of a Comic Book (Gar Anthony Haywood)
- The National City Reparation Society (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- A Scent of Death (Maria Lima)
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Copenhagen NoirEditor: Bo Tao Michaëlis
Akashic Books2011
The contents are:
- Women in Copenhagen (Naja Marie Aidt)
- One of the Rough Ones (Jonas T. Bengtsson)
- Australia (Christian Dorph & Simon Pasternak)
- All I Want Is My Baby Woah Woah, Woah Woah Woah Woah (Susane Staun)
- A Fine Boy (Helle Helle)
- When the Time Came (Lene Kaaberbøl & Agente Friis)
- Sleipner’s Assignment (Georg Ursin)
- Debt of Honor (Klaus Rifbjerg)
- When It’s Tough Out There (Gretelise Holm)
- Savage City, Cruel City (Kristian Lundberg)
- The Elephant’s Tusks (Kristina Stoltz)
- The Booster Station (Seyit Öztürk)
- The Great Actor (Benn Q. Holm)
- Last Train from Central Station (Gunnar Staalesen)
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Barcelona NoirEditor: Adriana V. López and Carmen Ospina
Akashic Books2011
The contents are:
- The Law of Escape (Andreu Martín)
- Brawner’s Shadows (Antonia Cortijos)
- The Predator (Santiago Roncagliolo)
- The Enigma of Her Voice (Isabel Franc)
- In This World, and at the Time Mercedes Died (Lolita Bosch)
- Sweet Croquette (David Barba)
- The Offering (Teresa Solana)
- A High-End Neighborhood (Jordi Sierra I Fabra)
- The Customer is Always Right (Imma Monsó)
- Epiphany (Eric Taylor-Aragón)
- The Story of a Scar (Cristina Fallarás)
- Bringing Down the Moon (Valerie Miles)
- The Slender Charm of Chinese Women (Raúl Argemí)
- The Police Inspector Who Loved Books (Francisco González Ledesma)
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Haiti NoirEditor: Edwidge Danticat
Akashic Books2011
The contents are:
- Odette (Patrick Sylvain)
- The Rainbow’s End (M.J. Fievre)
- The Finger (Gary Victor)
- Paradise Inn (Kettly Mars)
- Which One? (Evelyne Trouillot)
- Twenty Dollars (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Claire of the Sea Light (Edwidge Danticat)
- The Harem (Ibi Aanu Zoboi)
- Rosanna (Josaphat-Robert Large)
- Maloulou (Marie Lily Cerat)
- Dangerous Crossroads (Louis-Philippe Dalembert)
- Blues for Irène (Marvin Victor)
- The Last Department (Katia D. Ulysse)
- Departure Lounge (Nadine Pinede)
- Who Is that Man? (Yanick Lahens)
- Mercy at the Gate (Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel)
- The Leopard of Ti Morne (Mark Kurlansky)
- The Blue Hill (Rodney Saint-Éloi)
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St. Petersburg NoirEditor: Julia Goumen and Natalia Smirnova
Akashic Books2012
The contents are:
- Training Day (Andrei Kivinov)
- The Sixth of June (Sergei Nosov)
- Wake Up, You’re a Dead Man Now (Vadim Levental)
- The Witching Hour (Alexander Kudriavtsev)
- Peau de Chagrin (Natalia Kurchatova & Ksenia Venglinskaya)
- Drunk Harbor (Lena Eltang)
- Barely a Drop (Andrei Rubanov)
- Swift Current (Anna Solovey)
- The Phantom of the Opera Forever (Julia Belomllinsky)
- The Nutcracker (Anton Chizh)
- Paranoia (Mikhail Lialin)
- The Hairy Sutra (Pavel Krusanov)
- A Cabinet of Curiosities (Eugene Kogan)
- Hotel Angleterre (Vladimir Berezin)
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Staten Island NoirEditor: Patricia Smith
Akashic Books2012
The contents are:
- Snake Hill (Bill Loehfelm)
- Sister-in-Law (Louisa Ermelino)
- When They Are Done with Us (Patricia Smith)
- A User’s Guide to Keeping Your Kills Fresh (Ted Anthony)
- Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (Shay Youngblood)
- Mistakes (Michael Penncavage)
- Abating a Nuisance (Bruce DeSilva)
- Paying the Tab (Michael Largo)
- Assistant Professor Lodge (Binnie Kirshenbaum)
- . . . spy verse spy . . . (Todd Craig)
- Before It Hardens (Eddie Joyce)
- The Fly-Ass Puerto Girl from the Stapleton Projects (Linda Nieves-Powell)
- Teenage Wasteland (Ashley Dawson)
- Lighthouse (S.J. Rozan)
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Mumbai NoirEditor: Altaf Tyrewala
Akashic Books2012
The contents are:
- Justice (Riyaz Mulla)
- The Romantic Customer (Paromita Vohra)
- By Two (Devashish Makhija)
- Chachu At Dusk (Abbas Tyrewala)
- Nagpada Blues (Ahmed Bunglowala)
- The Body in the Gali (Smita Harish Jain)
- A Suitable Girl (Annie Zaidi)
- TZP (R. Raj Rao )
- Pakeezah (Avtar Singh)
- The Watchman (Altaf Tyrewala)
- Lucky 501 (Sonia Faleiro)
- The Egg (Namita Devidayal)
- At Leopold Café (Kalpish Ratna)
- They (Jerry Pinto)
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Long Island NoirEditor: Kaylie Jones
Akashic Books2012
The contents are:
- Gateway to the Stars (Matthew McGevna)
- Thy Shiny Car in the Night (Nick Mamatas)
- Home Invasion (Kaylie Jones)
- Anjali’s America (Qanta Ahmed, MD)
- A Starr Burns Bright (Charles Salzberg)
- Mastermind (Reed Farrel Coleman)
- Seven Eleven (Tim McLoughlin)
- Past President (Sarah Weinman)
- Boob Noir (Jules Feiffer)
- Summer Love (JZ Holden)
- Ending in Paumanok (Richie Narvaez)
- Terror (Sheila Kohler)
- Contents of House (Jane Ciabattari)
- Semiconscious (Steven Wishnia)
- Blood Drive (Kenneth Wishnia)
- Jabo’s (Amani Scipio)
- Snow Job (Tim Tomlinson)
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Kansas City NoirEditor: Steve Paul
Akashic Books2012
The contents are:
- Missing Gene (J. Malcolm Garcia)
- Cat in a Box (Kevin Prufer)
- Mission Hills Confidential (Grace Suh)
- Come Murder Me Next, Babe (Daniel Woodrell)
- The Softest Crime (Matthew Eck)
- You Shouldn’t Be Here (Philip Stephens)
- The Incident (Catherine Browder)
- The Good Neighbor (Linda Rodriguez)
- Thelma and Laverne (John Lutz)
- Lightbulb (Nancy Pickard)
- Yesterdays (Andrés Rodríguez)
- Last Night at the Rialto (Mitch Brian)
- Charlie Price’s Last Supper (Nadia Pflaum)
- The Pendergast Musket (Phong Nguyen)
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Kingston NoirEditor: Colin Channer
Akashic Books2012
The contents are:
- My Lord (Kwame Dawes)
- The White Gyal with the Camera” Kei Miller)
- Tomcat Beretta (Patricia Powell)
- A Grave Undertaking (Ian Thomson)
- Immaculate (Marlon James)
- Roll It (Leone Ross)
- One-Girl Half Way Tree Concert (Marcia Douglas)
- Leighton Leigh Anne Norbrook (Thomas Glave)
- 54-46 (That’s My Number) (Christopher John Farley)
- Sunrise (Chris Abani)
- Monkey Man (Colin Channer)
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Boston Noir 2: The ClassicsEditor: Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton and Jaime Clarke
Akashic Books2012
The contents are:
- The Marriage Privilege (Chuck Hogan)
- Night-Side (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Home Sweet Home (Hannah Tinti)
- Surrogate (Robert B. Parker)
- Mushrooms (Dennis Lehane)
- Lucky Penny (Linda Barnes)
- Blanche Cleans Up (excerpt) (Barbara Neely)
- The Balance of the Day (George V. Higgins)
- Bait (excerpt) (Kenneth Abel)
- Townies (Andre Dubus)
- Driving the Heart (Jason Brown)
- The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Infinite Jest” (excerpt) by David Foster Wallace)
- At Night (David Ryan)
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Venice NoirEditor: Maxim Jakubowski
Akashic Books2012
The contents are:
- Cloudy Water (Matteo Righetto)
- The Comedy Is Over (Francesco Ferracin)
- Commissario Clelia Vinci (Barbara Baraldi)
- Little Sister (Francesca Mazzucato)
- Lido Winter (Maxim Jakubowski)
- Pantegana (Michelle Lovric)
- Desdemona Undicesima (Isabella Santacroce)
- Venice Aphrodisiac (Peter James)
- Drifter (Emily St. John Mandel)
- Rendezvous (Tony Cartano)
- Signor Gauke’s Tongue (Mike Hodges)
- Tourists for Supper (Maria Tronca)
- Laguna Blues (Michael Gregorio)
- A Closed Book (Mary Hoffman)
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Dallas NoirEditor: David Hale Smith
Akashic Books2013
The contents are:
- Hole-Man (Matt Bondurant)
- The Realtor (Ben Fountain)
- In the Air (Daniel J. Hale)
- The Clearing (Emma Rathbone)
- En la Calle Doce (Flaco’s Blues) (Oscar C. Peña)
- The Private Room (Merritt Tierce)
- Night Work (Clay Reynolds)
- Full Moon (Lauren Davis)
- Like Kissing Your Sister (James Hime)
- An Angel from Heaven (Fran Hillyer)
- Coincidences Can Kill You (Kathleen Kent)
- Big Things Happening Here (David Haynes)
- The Stickup Girl (Harry Hunsicker)
- Dog Sitter (Catherine Cuellar)
- Miss Direction (J. Suzanne Frank)
- Swingers Anonymous (Jonathan Woods)
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Manila NoirEditor: Jessica Hagedorn
Akashic Books2013
The contents are:
- Aviary (Lysley Tenorio)
- A Human Right (Rosario Cruz-Lucero)
- Satan Has Already Bought U (Lourd de Veyra)
- Broken Glass (Sabina Murray)
- After Midnight (Angelo R. Lacuesta)
- Trese: Thirteen Stations (Budjette Tan & Kajo Baldisimo)
- Comforter of the Afflicted (F.H. Batacan)
- The Professor’s Wife (Jose Dalisay)
- Cariño Brutal (R. Zamora Linmark)
- The Unintended (Gina Apostol)
- Old Money (Jessica Hagedorn)
- Desire (Marianne Villanueva)
- Darling, You Can Count on Me (Eric Gamalinda)
- Norma from Norman (Jonas Vitman)
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USA NoirEditor: Johnny Temple
Akashic Books2013
An anthology that collects 37 of the best stories in the US based Akashic Noir series anthologies published up to 2013. The contents are:
- Animal Rescue (Dennis Lehane)
- The Confidential Informant (George Pelecanos)
- The Golden Gopher (Susan Straight)
- The Book Signing (Pete Hamill)
- Run Kiss Daddy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Still Air (Terrance Hayes)
- White Trash (Jerome Charyn)
- Alice Fantastic (Maggie Estep)
- The Gospel of Moral Ends (Bayo Ojikutu)
- When All This Was Bay Ridge (Tim McLoughlin)
- Crazy for You (Barbara DeMarco-Barrett)
- Mastermind (Reed Farrel Coleman)
- The Clown and Bard (Karen Karbo)
- Mulholland Dive (Michael Connelly)
- Our Eyes Couldn’t Stop Opening (Megan Abbott)
- Public Transportation (Lee Child)
- Too Near Real (Jonathan Safran Foer)
- Ride Along (James W. Hall)
- Second Chance (Elyssa East)
- After Thirty (Don Winslow)
- Missing Gene (J. Malcolm Garcia)
- Loot (Julie Smith)
- The Prison (Domenic Stansberry)
- Helper (Joseph Bruchac)
- Easy As A-B-C (Laura Lippman)
- The Rose Red Vial (Pir Rothenberg)
- Amapola (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- The Tik (John O’Brien)
- Lighthouse (S.J. Rozan)
- Secret Pool (Asali Solomon)
- Bums (William Kent Kruger)
- Vic Primeval (T. Jefferson Parker)
- Feeding Frenzy (Tim Broderick)
- Promised Tulips (Bharti Kirchner)
- If You Can’t Stand the Heat (Lawrence Block)
- Phelan’s First Case (Lisa Sandlin)
- A Nice Place to Visit (Jeffery Deaver)
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Belfast NoirEditor: Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville
Akashic Books2014
The contents are:
- Foreword (David Torrans)
- The Undertaking (Brian McGilloway)
- Poison (Lucy Caldwell)
- Wet with Rain (Lee Child)
- Taking It Serious (Ruth Dudley Edwards)
- Ligature (Gerard Brennan)
- Belfast Punk REP (Glenn Patterson)
- The Reservoir (Ian McDonald)
- The Grey (Steve Cavanagh)
- Rosie Grant’s Finger (Claire McGowan)
- Out of Time (Sam Millar)
- Die Like a Rat (Garbhan Downey)
- Corpse Flowers (Eoin McNamee)
- Pure Game (Arlene Hunt)
- The Reveller (Alex Barclay)
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Singapore NoirEditor: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Akashic Books2014
The contents are:
- Last Time (Colin Goh)
- Detective in a City with No Crime (Donald Tee Quee Ho)
- Strangler Fig (Philip Jeyaretnam)
- Smile, Singapore (Colin Cheong)
- Reel (Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan)
- Mother (Monica Bhide)
- Kena Sai (S.J. Rozan)
- Tattoo (Lawrence Osborne)
- Mei Kwei, I Love You (Suchen Christine Lim)
- Spells (Ovidia Yu)
- Saiful and the Pink Edward VII (Damon Chua)
- Current Escape (Johann S. Lee)
- Bedok Reservoir (Dave Chua)
- Murder on Orchard Road (Nury Vittachi)
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Helsinki NoirEditor: James Thompson
Akashic Books2014
The contents are:
- Jenkem (Pekka Hiltunen)
- Kiss of Santa (Leena Lehtolainen)
- The Hand of Ai (James Thompson)
- St. Peter’s Street (Riikka Ala-Harja)
- Hard Rain (Tapani Bagge)
- The Silent Woman (Joe L. Murr)
- Little Black (Teemu Kaskinen)
- Silent Night (Jarkko Sipila)
- Snowy Sarcophagus (Jukka Petäjä)
- Dead Cinch (Tuomas Lius)
- Good Intentions (Jesse Itkonen)
- The Broker (Karo Hämäläinen)
- The Script (Antti Tuomainen)
- Stolen Lives (Johanna Holmström)
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Tehran NoirEditor: Salar Abdoh
Akashic Books2014
The contents are:
- The Fat, Fat Story of the Fat City (Danial Haghighi)
- Fear Is the Best Keeper of Secrets (Vali Khalili)
- A Woman’s Geography Is Sacred (Lily Farhadpour)
- The Shelf Life of Revenge (Sima Saeedi)
- The Corpse Fixer (Majed Neisi)
- Lariyan’s Day in the Sun (Aida Moradi Ahani)
- The Whitest Set of Teeth in Tehran (Salar Abdoh)
- The Restlessness of a Serial Killer at the Finish Line (Javad Afhami)
- My Own Marble Jesus (Mahsa Mohebali)
- In the Flophouse (Farhaad Heidari Gooran)
- A Stoning Before Breakfast (Azardokht Bahrami)
- Bridge of Simon (Yourik Karim-Masihi)
- Not Every Bullet Is Meant for a King (Hossein Abkenar)
- The Groom’s Return (Mahak Taheri)
- The Gravedigger’s Kaddish (Gina B. Nahai)
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Tel Aviv NoirEditor: Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron
Akashic Books2014
The contents are:
- Sleeping Mask (Gadi Taub)
- Women (Matan Hermoni)
- The Time-Slip Detective (Lavie Tidhar)
- Slow Cooking (Deakla Keydar)
- Clear Recent History (Gon Ben Ari)
- Saïd the Good (Antonio Ungar)
- Swirl (Silje Bekeng)
- My Father’s Kingdom (Shimon Adaf)
- Who’s a Good Boy! (Julia Farmentto)
- The Tour Guide (Yoav Katz)
- Death in Pajamas (Alex Epstein)
- The Expendables (Gai Ad)
- Allergies (Etgar Keret)
- Center (Assaf Gavron)
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Haiti Noir 2: The ClassicsEditor: Edwidge Danticat
Akashic Books2014
The contents are:
- Praisesong for Port-au-Prince (Danielle Legros Georges)
- Preface to the Life of a Bureaucrat (Jacques Roumain)
- A Strange Story (Ida Faubert)
- The Enchanted Second Lieutenant (Jacques-Stephen Alexis)
- A White House with Pink Curtains in the Downstairs Windows (Jan J. Dominique)
- Oresca (Paulette Poujol Oriol)
- Children of Heroes (excerpt) (Lyonel Trouillot)
- Remember One Day (Emmelie Prophète)
- Rêve Haitien (Ben Fountain)
- Heading South (Dany Laferrière)
- Three Letters You Will Never Read (Georges Anglade)
- The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special (Edwidge Danticat)
- True Life (Michèle Voltaire Marcelin)
- I Just Lost My Way (Èzili Dantò)
- The Mission (Marie-Hélène Laforest)
- Barbancourt Blues (excerpt) (Nick Stone)
- Dame Marie (Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell)
- Surrender” (excerpt) by Myriam J.A. Chancy)
- Things I Know About Fairy Tales (Roxane Gay)
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Prison NoirEditor: Joyce Carol Oates
Akashic Books2014
The contents are:
- Shuffle (Christopher M. Stephen)
- I Saw an Angel (Sin Soracco)
- Bardos (Scott Gutches)
- Trap (Eric Boyd)
- A Message in the Breath of Allah (Ali F. Sareini)
- Tune-Up by Stephen Geez)
- Foxhole (B.M. Dolarman)
- There Will Be Seeds for Next Year (Zeke Caligiuri)
- Immigrant Song (Marco Verdoni)
- Rat’s Ass (Kenneth R. Brydon)
- Milk and Tea (Linda Michelle Marquardt)
- Angel Eyes (Andre White)
- How eBay Nearly Killed Gary Bridgway (Timothy Pauley)
- 3 Block from Hell (Bryan K. Palmer)
- The Investigation (William Van Poyck)
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Chicago Noir: The ClassicsEditor: Joe Meno
Akashic Books2015
The contents are:
- 30 Seconds of Darkness (Harry Stephen Keeler)
- Brothers (Sherwood Anderson)
- Kaddish for the Kid (Max Allan Collins)
- The Man Who Went to Chicago (excerpt) (Richard Wright)
- He Swung and He Missed (Nelson Algren)
- I’ll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen (Fredric Brown)
- The Price of Salt (excerpt) (Patricia Highsmith)
- The Starving Dogs of Little Croatia (Barry Gifford)
- Blue Note (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
- The Whole World Is Watching (Libby Fischer Hellmann)
- Skin Deep (Sara Paretsky)
- Death and the Point Spread (Percy Spurlark Parker)
- One Holy Night (Sandra Cisneros)
- The Thirtieth Amendment (Hugh Holton)
- We Didn’t (Stuart Dybek)
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Providence NoirEditor: Ann Hood
Akashic Books2015
The contents are:
- Gold Leaf (Luanne Rice)
- The Pig (John Searles)
- Under the Shepard Clock (Ann Hood)
- The Vengeance Taker (Robert Leuci)
- Waltz Me Once Again (LaShonda Katrice Barnett)
- Once, at Trinity Rep (Elizabeth Strout)
- The Autobiographical House (Amity Gaige)
- Femur (Hester Kaplan)
- Missing Sri (Marie Myung-Ok Lee)
- $1,000 Nassau (Thomas Cobb)
- All in the Family (Bruce DeSilva)
- Armory Park (Taylor M. Polites)
- Training (Dawn Raffel)
- WaterFire’s Smell Tonight (Pablo Rodriguez)
- The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday (Peter Farrelly)
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Buffalo NoirEditor: Ed Park and Brigid Hughes
Akashic Books2015
The contents are:
- Dr. Kirkbride’s Moral Treatment Plan (Christina Milletti)
- It’s Only for Forever (Tom Fontana)
- The Ehrengraf Settlement (Lawrence Block)
- The Bubble Man of Allentown (Dimitri Anastasopoulos)
- Falling on Ice (Lissa Marie Redmond)
- Parkside (S.J. Rozan)
- Chicken Noodle’s Night Out (John Wray & Brooke Costello)
- Peace Bridge (Connie Porter)
- Valentine (Joyce Carol Oates)
- The Odd (Ed Park)
- Good Neighbors (Gary Earl Ross)
- Hand (Kim Chinquee)
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Memphis NoirEditor: Laureen P. Cantwell and Leonard Gill
Akashic Books2015
The contents are:
- Her Better Devils (David Wesley Williams)
- Heartbreak at Graceland (Kaye George)
- Through Valleys (Jamey Hatley)
- The Panama Limited (Richard J. Alley)
- Green-Eyed Blues (Dwight Fryer)
- The Never Never Is Forever (Adam Shaw & Penny Register-Shaw)
- Chain of Custody (Lee Martin)
- There Is No Rest (Arthur Flowers)
- A Game of Love (Suzanne Berube Rorhus)
- Mother (Ehi Ike)
- Battle (Stephen Clements)
- Stinkeye (Cary Holladay)
- A Shut-and-Open Case (John Bensko)
- Nightflight (Sheree Renée Thomas)
- Tell Him What You Want (Troy L. Wiggins)
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Marseille NoirEditor: Cédric Fabre
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- The Josettes Really Liked Me (Christian Garcin)
- Extreme Unction (François Thomazeau)
- Silence Is Your Best Friend (Patrick Coulomb)
- The Dead Pay a Price for the Living (René Frégni)
- I’ll Go Away with the First Man Who Says I Love You (Marie Neuser)
- On Borrowed Time (Emmanuel Loi)
- What Can I Say? (Rebecca Lighieri)
- Katrina (François Beaune)
- The Problem with the Rotary (Philippe Carrese)
- The Prosecution (Pia Petersen)
- Green, Slightly Gray (Serge Scotto)
- The Red Mule (Minna Sif)
- The Warehouse for People from Before (Salim Hatubou)
- Joliette Sound System (Cédric Fabre)
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New Orleans Noir: The ClassicsEditor: Julie Smith
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- A Marriage of Conscience (Armand Lanusse)
- The Little Convent Girl (Grace King)
- The Story of an Hour (Kate Chopin)
- Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking (O. Henry)
- The Purple Hat (Eudora Welty)
- Desire and the Black Masseur (Tennessee Williams)
- Miss Yellow Eyes (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Pleadings (John William Corrington)
- Ritual Murder (Tom Dent)
- Rich (Ellen Gilchrist)
- Spats (Valerie Martin)
- The Man with Moon Hands (O’Neil De Noux)
- Rose (John Biguenet)
- Mussolini and the Axeman’s Jazz (Poppy Z. Brite)
- GDMFSOB (Nevada Barr)
- Jesus Out to Sea (James Lee Burke)
- Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Ace Atkins)
- Pie Man (Maurice Carlos Ruffin)
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Mississippi NoirEditor: Tom Franklin
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- Combustible (Ace Atkins)
- Lord of Madison County (Jimmy Cajoleas)
- Losing Her Religion (RaShell R. Smith-Spears)
- Most Things Haven’t Worked Out (William Boyle)
- Uphill (Mary Miller)
- Boy and Girl Games Like Coupling (Jamie Paige)
- Oxford Girl (Megan Abbott)
- Digits (Michael Kardos)
- Moonface (Andrew Paul)
- God’s Gonna Trouble the Water (Dominiqua Dickey)
- My Dear, My One True Love (Lee Durkee)
- Hero (Michael Farris Smith)
- Pit Stop (John M. Floyd)
- Anglers of the Keep (Robert Busby)
- Jerry Lewis (Jack Pendarvis)
- Cheap Suitcase and a New Town (Chris Offutt)
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San Juan NoirEditor: Mayra Santos-Febres
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- Death on the Scaffold (Janette Becerra)
- Fish Food (Manolo Núñez Negrón)
- The Infamy of Chin Fernández (Tere Dávila)
- Two Deaths for Ángela (Ana María Fuster Lavín)
- Matchmaking (Mayra Santos-Febres)
- Dog Killer (Luis Negrón)
- Saint Michael’s Sword (Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos)
- A Killer Among Us (Manuel A. Meléndez)
- Sweet Feline (Alejandro Álvarez Nieves)
- Things Told While Falling (Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro)
- Turistas (Ernesto Quiñonez)
- Y (José Rabelo)
- Inside and Outside (Edmaris Carazo)
- Death Angel of Santurce (Charlie Vázquez)
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Rio NoirEditor: Tony Bellotto
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- The Hanged Man (Adriana Lisboa)
- Toned Cougars (Tony Bellotto)
- The Cannibal of Ipanema (Alexandre Fraga dos Santos)
- The Booty (Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza)
- The Return (MV Bill)
- Weekend in São Conrado (Luiz Eduardo Soares)
- RJ-171 (Guilherme Fiuza)
- Argentine Taxi (Arthur Dapieve)
- Blind Spot (Victoria Saramago)
- The Enigma of the Victrola (Arnaldo Bloch)
- Tangerine Tango (Marcelo Ferroni)
- The Wait (Flávio Carneiro)
- The Story of Georges Fullar (Raphael Montes)
- The Woodsman (Luis Fernando Verissimo)
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St. Louis NoirEditor: Scott Phillips
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- Abandoned Places (S.L. Coney)
- Deserted Cities of the Heart (Paul D. Marks)
- Blues for the River City (Colleen J. McElroy)
- Fool’s Luck (LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn)
- Attrition (Calvin Wilson)
- Tracks (Jason Makansi)
- Four St. Louis Poems (Michael Castro)
- A Paler Shade of Death (Laura Benedict)
- Have You Seen Me? (Jedidiah Ayres)
- A St. Louis Christmas (Umar Lee)
- The Pillbox (Chris Barsanti)
- The Brick Wall (John Lutz)
- Tell Them Your Name Is Barbara (L.J. Smith)
- One Little Goddamn Thing (Scott Phillips)
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Brussels NoirEditor: Michel Dufranne
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- The Parakeet (Barbara Abel)
- Daedalus (Katia Lanero Zamora)
- Only Muddy Streams Flow in Darkness (Patrick Delperdange)
- R I T U A L: Diary of Flesh and Faith (Kenan Görguin)
- A Fraction of a Second (Paul Colize)
- The Other War of the Marolles (Sara Doke)
- The Other Half of a Life (Ayerdhal)
- The Killer Wore Slippers (Nadine Monfils)
- The Village Idiot (Edgar Kosma)
- In the Shadow of the Tower (Émilie de Béco)
- Ecuador (Alfredo Noriega)
- Paint It, Black (Bob Van Laerhoven)
- The Beekeeper (Jean-Luc Cornette)
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Beirut NoirEditor: Iman Humaydan
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- The Bastard (Tarek Abi Samra)
- Maya Rose (Zena el Khalil)
- Pizza Delivery (Bana Beydoun)
- Under the Tree of Melancholy (Najwa Barakat)
- Eternity and the Hourglass (Hyam Yared)
- Beirut Apples (Leila Eid)
- Bird Nation (Rawi Hage)
- Dirty Teeth (The Amazin’ Sardine)
- The Boxes (Mazen Maarouf)
- Rupture (Bachir Hilal)
- The Thread of Life (Hala Kawtharani)
- Without a Trace (Mohamad Abi Samra)
- The Death of Adil Uliyyan (Abbas Beydoun)
- Scent of a Woman, Scent of a City (Alawiya Sobh)
- Sails on the Sidewalk (Marie Tawk)
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Zagreb NoirEditor: Ivan Sršen
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- A Girl in the Garage (Darko Macan)
- Crossbar (Josip Novakovich)
- The Old Man from the Mountain (Ivan Vidic)
- The Gates of Hell (Ružica Gašperov)
- Horse Killer (Mima Simic)
- It All Happened So Fast (Robert Perisic)
- Night Vision (Pero Kvesic)
- Numbers 1–3 (Nada Gašic)
- Wraiths (Zoran Pilic)
- Slices of Night (Andrea Žigic-Dolenec)
- Headlessness (Darko Milošic)
- She-Warrior (Nora Verde)
- Wiener Schnitzel (Ivan Sršen)
- Happiness on a Leash (Neven Ušumovic)
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Stockholm NoirEditor: Nathan Larson and Carl-Michael Edenbo
Akashic Books2016
The contents are:
- Stairway from Heaven (Åke Edwardson)
- Still in Kallhäll (Johan Theorin)
- The Smugglers (Martin Holmén)
- The Splendors and Miseries of a Swedish Crime Writer (Malte Persson)
- Horse (Anna-Karin Selberg)
- From the Remains (Inger Edelfeldt)
- Northbound (Lina Wolff)
- Kim (Torbjörn Elensky)
- Black Ice (Inger Frimansson)
- The Wahlberg Disease (Carl Johan De Geer)
- Nineteen Pieces (Carl-Michael Edenborg)
- Death Star (Unni Drougge)
- 10/09/03 (Nathan Larson)
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Trinidad Noir: The ClassicsEditor: Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni
Akashic Books2017
The contents are:
- La Divina Pastor (C.L.R. James)
- The Cricket Match (Samuel Selvon)
- Homestead (Eric Roach)
- Man-Man (V.S. Naipaul)
- The Valley Of Cocoa (Michael Anthony)
- The Quiet Peasant (Harold Sonny Ladoo)
- The Schooner Flight (Derek Walcott)
- Malgret97te (Lawrence Scott)
- Assam's Iron Chest (Willi Chen)
- Joebell And America (Earl Lovelace)
- Hindsight (Robert Antoni)
- Uncle Zoltan (Ismith Khan)
- Town Of Tears (Elizabeth Nunez)
- The Vagrant At The Gate (Wayne Brown)
- Losing Control. Songster (Jennifer Rahim)
- The Party (Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw)
- Ghost Story (Barbara Jenkins)
- The Dragonfly's Tale (Sharon Millar)
- The Bonnaire Silk Cotton Tree (Shani Mootoo)
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Atlanta NoirEditor: Tayari Jones
Akashic Books2017
The contents are:
- Snowbound (Tananarive Due)
- Terceira (Dallas Hudgens)
- The Prisoner (Brandon Massey)
- Kill Joy (Sheri Joseph)
- One-Eyed Woman (Gillian Royes)
- Selah (Anthony Grooms)
- Caramel (Tayari Jones)
- Comet (David James Poissant)
- Come Ye, Disconsolate (Daniel Black)
- The Bubble (Jennifer Harlow)
- A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House (Kenji Jasper)
- Four in the Morning in the New Place (Jim Grimsley)
- Ma’am (Alesia Parker)
- The Fuck Out (John Holman)
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Oakland NoirEditor: Eddie Muller and Jerry Thompson
Akashic Books2017
The contents are:
- The Bridge Tender (Nick Petrulakis)
- The Wishing Well (Kim Addonizio)
- A Murder of Saviors (Keenan Norris)
- Divine Singularity (Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder)
- White Horse (Katie Gilmartin)
- A Town Made of Hustle (Dorothy Lazard)
- The Streets Don’t Love Nobody (Harry Louis Williams II)
- Bulletproof (Carolyn Alexander)
- The Three Stooges (Phil Canalin)
- Cabbie (Judy Juanita)
- Two to Tango (Jamie DeWolf)
- Survivors of Heartache (Nayomi Munaweera)
- Prophets and Spies (Mahmud Rahman)
- Black and Borax (Tom McElravey)
- Waiting for Gordo (Joe Loya)
- The Handyman (Eddie Muller)
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Montana NoirEditor: James Grady and Keir Graff
Akashic Books2017
The contents are:
- Red, White, and Butte (David Abrams)
- Constellations (Caroline Patterson)
- Ace in the Hole (Eric Heidle)
- Fireweed (Janet Skeslien Charles)
- Dark Monument (Sidner Larson)
- All the Damn Stars in the Sky (Yvonne Seng)
- The Road You Take (James Grady)
- The Dive (Jamie Ford)
- Bad Blood (Carrie La Seur)
- Oasis (Walter Kirn)
- Motherlode (Thomas McGuane)
- Trailer Trash (Gwen Florio)
- Custer’s Last Stand (Debra Magpie Earling)
- Red Skies of Montana (Keir Graff)
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New Haven NoirEditor: Amy Bloom
Akashic Books2017
The contents are:
- Crossing Harry (Chris Knopf)
- Callback (Sarah Pemberton Strong)
- A Woe for Every Season (Hirsh Sawhney)
- Sure Thing (David Rich)
- I’ve Never Been to Paris (Amy Bloom)
- The Secret Societies (Roxana Robinson)
- The Boy (Karen E. Olson)
- Evening Prayer by Stephen L. Carter)
- Second Act (Jessica Speart)
- The Gauntlet (Jonathan Stone)
- Innovative Methods (Alice Mattison)
- Spring Break (John Crowley)
- Silhouettes (Chandra Prasad)
- The Man in Room Eleven (Michael Cunningham)
- The Queen of Secrets (Lisa D. Gray)
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Montreal NoirEditor: Jacques Filippi and John McFetridge
Akashic Books2017
The contents are:
- Rush Hour (Patrick Senécal)
- Such a Pretty Little Girl (Geneviève Lefebvre)
- Three Tshakapesh Dreams (Samuel Archibald)
- The Haunted Crack House (Michel Basilières)
- Wild Horses (Arjun Basu)
- Driftwood (Ian Truman)
- Joke’s On You (Catherine McKenzie)
- Coyote (Brad Smith)
- The Crap Magnet (Peter Kirby)
- Poppa (Robert Pobi)
- Journal of an Obsession (Johanne Seymour)
- The Sin Eaters (Melissa Yi)
- Milk Teeth (Howard Shrier)
- Other People’s Secrets (Tess Fragoulis)
- Suitcase Man (Martin Michaud)
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Buenos Aires NoirEditor: Ernesto Mallo
Akashic Books2017
The contents are:
- The Dead Wife (Inés Garland)
- Crochet (Inés Fernández Moreno)
- Ex Officio (Ariel Magnus)
- Fury of the Worm (Alejandro Parisi)
- A Face in the Crowd (Pablo De Santis)
- Orange Is a Pretty Color (Verónica Abdala)
- Chameleon and the Lions (Alejandro Soifer)
- The Golden Eleventh (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara)
- Eternal Love (Ernesto Mallo)
- You’ve Spoken My Name (Enzo Maqueira)
- Three Rooms and a Patio (Elsa Osorio)
- The Excluded (Leandro Ávalos Blacha)
- Death and the Canoe (Claudia Piñeiro)
- Feel the Burn (María Inés Krimer)
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Prague NoirEditor: Pavel Mandys
Akashic Books2018
The contents are:
- Three Musketeers (Martin Goffa)
- Amateurs (Štepán Kopriva)
- Disappearances on the Bridge (Miloš Urban)
- The Dead Girl from a Haunted House (Jirí W. Procházka)
- The Magical Amulet (Chaim Cigan)
- Marl Circle (Ondrej Neff)
- The Cabinet of Seven Pierced Books (Petr Stancík)
- The Life and Work of Baroness Mautnic (Katerina Tucková)
- All the Old Disguises (Markéta Pilátová)
- Percy Thrillington (Michal Sykora)
- Better Life (Michaela Klevisová)
- Another Worst Day (Petra Soukupová)
- Olda No. 3 (Irena Hejdová)
- Epiphany, or Whatever You Wish (Petr Šabach)
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Santa Cruz NoirEditor: Susie Bright
Akashic Books2018
The contents are:
- Buck Low (Tommy Moore)
- Whatever happened to Skinny Jane? (Ariel Gore)
- Monarchs and Maidens (Margaret Elysia Garcia)
- 54028 Love Creek Road (Jessica Breheny)
- Possessed (Naomi Hirahara)
- Wheels of Justice (Jon Bailiff)
- Mischa and the seal (Liza Monroy)
- First Peak (Peggy Townsend)
- Safe Harbor (Seana Graham)
- Miscalculation (Vinnie Hansen)
- To live and Die in Santa Cruz (Calvin McMillin)
- Treasure Island (Micah Perks)
- Flaming Arrows (Wallace Baine)
- The Big Creep (Elizabeth McKenzie)
- Death and Taxes (Jill Wolfson)
- The Strawberry Tattoo (Maceo Montoya)
- Crab Dinners (Lou Mathews)
- Pinballs (Beth Lisick)
- The Shooter (Lee Quarnstrom)
- It Follows Until It Leads (Dillon Kaiser)
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São Paulo NoirEditor: Tony Bellotto
Akashic Books2018
The contents are:
- Cross Contamination (Vanessa Barbara)
- Boniclaide And Mrs. Als (Ilana Casoy)
- Useless Diary (Tony Bellotto)
- My Name Is Nicky Nicola (Jô Soares)
- Teresão (Mario Prata)
- As If The World Were A Good Place (Marçal Aquino)
- Margot (Drauzio Varella)
- 24-Hour Service (Fernando Bonassi)
- The Final Table (Marcelo Rubens Paiva)
- Discreet Inelegance. The Force Is With Me (Beatriz Bracher & Maria S. Carvalhosa)
- Flow (Ferréz)
- Coffee Stain (Olivia Maia)
- Any Similarity Is Not Purely Coincidental (Marcelino Freire)
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Lagos NoirEditor: Chris Abani
Akashic Books2018
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Vancouver NoirEditor: Sam Wiebe
Akashic Books2018
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Baghdad NoirEditor: Samuel Shimon
Akashic Books2018
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Marrakech NoirEditor: Yassin Adnan
Akashic Books2018
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Hong Kong NoirEditor: Jason Y. Ng and Susan Blumberg-Kason
Akashic Books2018
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Amsterdam NoirEditor: René Appel and Josh Pachter
Akashic Books2019
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Sydney NoirEditor: John Dale
Akashic Books2019
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Accra NoirEditor: Nana-Ama Danquah
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Addis Ababa NoirEditor: Maaza Mengiste
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Alabama NoirEditor: Don Noble
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Berkeley NoirEditor: Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill
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Berlin NoirEditor: Thomas Wörtche
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Bogotá NoirEditor: Andrea Montejo
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Columbus NoirEditor: Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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Houston NoirEditor: Gwendolyn Zepeda
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Jerusalem NoirEditor: Dror Mishani
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Milwaukee NoirEditor: Tim Hennessy
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Nairobi NoirEditor: Peter Kimani
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Santa Fe NoirEditor: Ariel Gore
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