CARMEN OSPINA directs the digital program at Random House Mondadori in Barcelona. Born and raised in Colombia, she lived in New York for eight years where she co-edited Críticas magazine and worked as an editor at Umbrage Editions and a freelance journalist for World Press Review and NY1 Noticias. She has lived in Barcelona since 2006 and rides her bike every day.
SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO, born in Lima, Peru, in 1975, is the author of the political thriller Abril rojo, which won Spain’s prestigious Alfaguara Prize in 2006. His first novel, Pudor, was adapted to the big screen in 2007. His most recent offering is the sci-fi novel Tan cerca de la vida. His books have sold more than 150,000 copies in the Spanish-speaking world and have been translated into more than thirteen languages. He lives in Barcelona.
TERESA SOLANA was born in Barcelona in 1962 and published her first novel, Un crim imperfecte, winner of the Brigada 21 award, in 2006. She subsequently published the novel Drecera al paradís and the story collection Set casos de sang i fetge i una història d’amor. Her work has been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Her latest novel, Negres tempestes, recently received the Crims de Tinta prize for the best noir novel in Catalan.
Also available from the Akashic Noir Series
MEXICO CITY NOIR
edited by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
176 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by: Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Eugenio Aguirre, Eduardo Antonia Parra, Bernardo Fernández Bef, Óscar de la Borbolla, Rolo Diez, Víctor Luiz González, F.G. Haghenbeck, Juan Hernández Luna, Myriam Laurini, Eduardo Monteverde, and Julia Rodriguez.
“Set across Mexico City in a variety of neighborhoods, the stories feature a cast of characters as diverse as the city, from homeless people to young children to innocent passersby. This is a strong collection, both for the way it showcases outstanding short fiction in the noir style and for the way it demonstrates how a strong sense of place can drive a narrative.” —Booklist
HAVANA NOIR
edited by Achy Obejas
360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by: Leonardo Padura, Pablo Medina, Carolina García-Aguilera, Ena Lucía Portela, Miguel Mejides, Arnaldo Correa, Alex Abella, Moisés Asís, Lea Aschkenas, and others.
“A remarkable collection … Throughout these eighteen stories, current and former residents of Havana—some well-known, some previously undiscovered—deliver gritty tales of depravation, depravity, heroic perseverance, revolution, and longing in a city mythical and widely misunderstood.” —Miami Herald
PARIS NOIR
edited by Aurélien Masson
300 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by: Didier Daeninckx, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Marc Villard, Chantal Pelletier, Patrick Pécherot, DOA, Hervé Prudon, Dominique Mainard, Salim Bachi, Jérôme Leroy, and others.
“Rarely has the City of Light seemed grittier than in this hard-boiled short story anthology, part of Akashic’s Noir Series … The twelve freshly penned pulp fictions by some of France’s most prominent practitioners play out in a kind of darker, parallel universe to the tourist mecca; visitors cross these pages at their peril …”
—Publishers Weekly
BOSTON NOIR
edited by Dennis Lehane
240 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
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)
HAITI NOIR
edited by Edwidge Danticat
318 pages, limited edition hardcover, $24.95; trade paperback, $15.95
Brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, Yanick Lahens, Kettly Mars, Mark Kurlansky, Evelyne Trouillot, Katia D. Ulysse, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Patrick Sylvain, and others.
“A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island … The 36th entry in Akashic’s Noir series (which ranges from Bronx to Delhi to Twin Cities) is beautifully edited, with a spectrum of voices.” —Kirkus Reviews
ROME NOIR
edited by Chiara Stangalino & Maxim Jakubowski
280 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by: Antonio Scurati, Carlo Lucarelli, Gianrico Carofiglio, Diego De Silva, Giuseppe Genna, Marcello Fois, Cristiana Danila Formetta, Enrico Franceschini, Boosta, and others.
From Stazione Termini, immortalized by Roberto Rossellini’s films, to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s desolate beach of Ostia, and encompassing famous landmarks and streets, this is the sinister side of the Dolce Vita come to life, a stunning gallery of dark characters, grotesques, and lost souls seeking revenge or redemption in the shadow of the Colosseum, the Spanish Steps, the Vatican, Trastevere, the quiet waters of the Tiber, and Piazza Navona. Rome will never be the same.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
PART I: FOLLOW ME IF YOU CAN
A NDREU M ARTÍN
Villa Olímpica
The Law of Escape
A NTONIA C ORTIJOS
El Born
Brawner’s Shadows
S ANTIAGO R ONCAGLIOLO
Barri Gòtic
The Predator
I SABEL F RANC
Poble Nou
The Enigma of Her Voice
L OLITA B OSCH
Sant Gervasi
In This World, and at the Time Mercedes Died
PART II: SHELTERED LIVES, SECRET CRIMES
D AVID B ARBA
El Carmel
Sweet Croquette
T ERESA S OLANA
Sant Antoni
The Offering
( Translated from Catalan by P ETER B USH )
J ORDI S IERRA I F ABRA
Turó Parc
A High-End Neighborhood
I MMA M ONSÓ
L’Eixample
The Customer Is Always Right
(Translated from Catalan by V ALERIE M ILES )
PART III: DAYS OF WINE (WHITE LINES) AND ROSES
E RIC T AYLOR -A RAGÓN
Barceloneta
Epiphany
C RISTINA F ALLARÁS
Nou Barris
The Story of a Scar
V ALERIE M ILES
Gràcia
Bringing Down the Moon
R AÚL A RGEMÍ
Montjuic
The Slender Charm of Chinese Women
F RANCISCO G ONZÁLEZ L EDESMA
El Raval
The Police Inspector Who Loved Books
About the Contributors
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