ANNIE ZAIDI is the author of Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales. Her work has also appeared in anthologies like India Shining, India Changing, and Women Changing India, and in several magazines including Frontline, Caravan, Tehelka, Pratilipi, and The Little Magazine. She currently lives and works in Mumbai.
Also available from the Akashic Noir Series
DELHI NOIR
edited by Hirsh Sawhney
304 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by: Irwin Allan Sealy, Radhika Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Meera Nair, Siddharth Chowdhury, Mohan Sikka, Palash K. Mehrotra, Hartosh Singh Bal, Hirsh Sawhney, Uday Prakash, and others.
“All fourteen stories are briskly paced, beautifully written, and populated by vivid, original characters … Few books can alter one’s perception about the state of a society, but this does, while delivering noir that’s first class in any light.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
BROOKLYN NOIR
edited by Tim McLoughlin
350 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*Winner of Shamus Award, Anthony Award, Robert L. Fish Memorial Award; finalist for Edgar Award, Pushcart Prize.
Brand-new stories by: Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Ellen Miller, Nelson George, Nicole Blackman, Sidney Offit, Ken Bruen, and others.
“Brooklyn Noir is such a stunningly perfect combination that you can’t believe you haven’t read an anthology like this before. But trust me— you haven’t … The writing is flat-out superb, filled with lines that will sing in your head for a long time to come.”
—Laura Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Shamus awards
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)
NEW JERSEY NOIR
edited by Joyce Carol Oates
312 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories (and a few poems) by: Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White & Michael Carroll, Bradford Morrow, S.J. Rozan, Bill Pronzini, Sheila Kohler, and others.
“Oates’s introduction to Akashic’s noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative definition of the genre, is alone worth the price of the book … Poems by C.K. Williams, Paul Muldoon, and others—plus photos by Gerald Slota—enhance this distinguished entry.” —Publishers Weekly
TRINIDAD NOIR
edited by Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason
348 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by: Elizabeth Nunez, Robert Antoni, Lawrence Scott, Oonya Kempadoo, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, and others.
“Covering the entire island of Trinidad, the stories take readers from the steamy jungle countryside to the tropical beaches and on to the city streets of the capital, where political intrigue thrives. The stories evoke an atmosphere so strong the reader can practically feel the heat, smell the marijuana, and hear the calypso music. The authors do an especially good job with the dialogue, portraying the speech rhythms and slang of the distinctive Caribbean island.” —Booklist
PARIS NOIR
edited by Aurélien Masson
252 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by: Didier Daeninckx, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Marc Villard, Chantal Pelletier, Patrick Pécherot, Hervé Prudon, and others.
“The dank and sweaty crime scenes in Paris Noir … testify to the fact that the French invented ‘noir.’” —New York Times “Rarely has the City of Light seemed grittier than in this hard-boiled short story anthology.” —Publishers Weekly
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