USA Noir - Best Of The Akashic Noir Series

by Johnny Temple (Editor)

  Sandra Kitt, “Home Sweet Home”, City Island

  Robert J. Hughes, “A Visit to St. Nick’s”, Fordham Road

  Miles Marshall Lewis, “Numbers Up”, Baychester

  Joseph Wallace, “The Big Five”, Bronx Zoo

  Ed Dee, “Ernie K.’s Gelding”, Van Cortlandt Park

  Patrick W. Picciarelli, “The Prince of Arthur Avenue”, Arthur Avenue

  Thomas Adcock , “You Want I Should Whack Monkey Boy?” , Courthouse

  Brooklyn Noir edited by Tim McLoughlin

  Pete Hamill, “The Book Signing”, Park Slope

  Pearl Abraham, “Hasidic Noir”, Williamsburg

  Sidney Offit, “No Time for Senior’s”, Downtown

  Tim McLoughlin, “When All This Was Bay Ridge”, Sunset Park

  Ellen Miller, “Practicing”, Canarsie

  Adam Mansbach, “Crown Heist”, Crown Heights

  Arthur Nersesian, “Hunter/Trapper”, Brooklyn Heights

  Nelson George, “New Lots Avenue”, Brownsville

  Neal Pollack, “Scavenger Hunt”, Coney Island

  Norman Kelley, “The Code”, Prospect Heights

  Thomas Morrissey, “Can’t Catch Me”, Bay Ridge

  Lou Manfredo, “Case Closed”, Bensonhurst

  Luciano Guerriero, “Eating Italian”, Red Hook

  Kenji Jasper, “Thursday”, Bed-Stuyvesant

  Robert Knightly, “One More for the Road”, Greenpoint

  Maggie Estep, “Triple Harrison”, East New York

  Ken Bruen, “Fade to . . . Brooklyn”, Galway, Ireland

  Nicole Blackman, “Dumped”, Fort Greene

  C.J. Sullivan, “Slipping into Darkness”, Bushwick

  Chris Niles, “Ladies’ Man”, Brighton Beach

  Cape Cod Noir edited by David L. Ulin

  William Hastings, “Ten-Year Plan”, Falmouth

  Elyssa East, “Second Chance”, Buzzards Bay

  Dana Cameron, “Ardent”, Eastham

  Paul Tremblay, “Nineteen Snapshots of Dennisport”, Dennisport

  Adam Mansbach, “Variations on a Fifty-Pound Bale”, Martha’s Vineyard

  Seth Greenland, “Bad Night in Hyannisport”, Hyannisport

  Lizzie Skurnick, “Spectacle Pond”, Wellfleet

  David L. Ulin, “La Jetée”, Harwichport

  Kaylie Jones, “The Occidental Tourist”, Dennis

  Fred G. Leebron, “The Exchange Student”, Provincetown

  Ben Greenman, “Viva Regina”, Woods Hole

  Dave Zeltserman, “When Death Shines Bright”, Sandwich

  Jedediah Berry, “Twenty-Eight Scenes for Neglected Guests”, Yarmouth

  Chicago Noir edited by Neal Pollack

  Luciano Guerriero, “Goodnight Chicago and Amen”, 99th & Drexel

  Bayo Ojikutu, “The Gospel of Moral Ends”, 77th & Jeffery

  Peter Orner, “Dear Mr. Kleczka”, 54th & Blackstone

  Jeffery Renard Allen, “The Near Remote”, 35th & Michigan

  Achy Obejas, “Destiny Returns”, 26th & Kedvale

  Claire Zulkey, “The Great Billik”, 19th & Sacramento

  Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski “Maximillian”, 18th & Allport

  Andrew Ervin, “All Happy Families”, Canal & Jackson

  M.K. Meyers, “Monkey Head”, Grand & Western

  Kevin Guilfoile, “Zero Zero Day”, Grand & Racine

  Todd Dills, “Arcadia”, Chicago & Noble

  C.J. Sullivan, “Alex Pinto Hears the Bell”, North & Troy

  Daniel Buckman, “Pure Products”, Roscoe & Claremont

  Amy Sayre-Roberts, “Death Mouth”, Roscoe & Broadway

  Joe Meno, “Like a Rocket With a Beat”, Lawrence & Broadway

  Neal Pollack, “Marty’s Drink or Die Club”, Clark & Foster

  Adam Langer, “Bobby Kagan Knows Everything”, Albion & Whipple

  Jim Arndorfer, “The Oldest Rivalry”, I-94, Lake Forest Oasis

  DC Noir edited by George Pelecanos

  George Pelecanos, “The Confidential Informant”, Park View, NW

  Kenji Jasper, “First”, Benning Heights, SE

  Jim Patton, “Capital of the World”, Chinatown, NW

  Richard Currey, “The Names of the Lost”, Shepherd Park, NW

  Jennifer Howard, “East of the Sun”, Hill East, SE

  Robert Andrews, “Solomon’s Alley”, Georgetown, NW

  Robert Wisdom, “The Light and the Dark”, Petworth, NW

  Laura Lippman, “A.R.M. and the Woman”, Chevy Chase, NW

  Quintin Peterson, “Cold as Ice”, Congress Heights, SE/SW

  Lester Irby, “God Don’t Like Ugly”, Edgewood, NE

  Ruben Castaneda, “Coyote Hunt”, Mount Pleasant, NW

  Jim Beane, “Jeanette”, Deanwood, NE

  James Grady, “The Bottom Line”, Capitol Hill, NE/SE

  David Slater, “Stiffed”, Thomas Circle, NW

  Norman Kelley, “The Messenger of Soulsville”, Cardozo, NW

  Jim Fusilli, “The Dupe”, K Street, NW

  Detroit Noir edited by E.J. Olsen & John C. Hocking

  Loren D. Estleman, “Kill the Cat”, Rivertown

  P.J. Parrish, “Pride”, Brush Park

  Joyce Carol Oates, “Panic”, Chrysler Freeway

  Nisi Shawl, “Little Horses”, Belle Isle

  Craig Holden, “Red Quarters”, Hamtramck

  Craig Bernier, “Migration”, Rouge Foundry

  Desiree Cooper, “Night Coming”, Palmer Woods

  Melissa Preddy, “The Coffee Break”, Grandmont-Rosedale

  E.J. Olsen, “Snow Angel”, Grand Circus Park

  Joe Boland, “The Night Watchman Is Asleep”, Downtown

  Megan Abbott, “Our Eyes Couldn’t Stop Opening”, Alter Road

  Dorene O’Brien, “Honesty above All Else”, Corktown

  Lolita Hernandez, “Over the Belle Isle Boundary”, East Grand Boulevard

  Peter Markus, “The Dead Man’s Boat”, Delray

  Roger K. Johnson, “Hey Love”, New Center

  Michael Zadoorian, “The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit”, Woodward Avenue

  Indian Country Noir edited by Sarah Cortez & Liz Martínez

  Joseph Bruchac, “Helper”, Adirondacks, New York

  Jean Rae Baxter, “Osprey Lake”, Eastern Woodlands, Canada

  Gerard Houarner, “Dead Medicine Snake Woman”, New York, New York

  Melissa Yi, “Indian Time”, Ontario, Canada

  A.A. HedgeCoke, “On Drowning Pond”, Charlotte, North Carolina

  Mistina Bates, “Daddy’s Girl”, Memphis, Tennessee

  O’Neil De Noux, “The Raven and the Wolf”, New Orleans, Louisiana

  R. Narvaez, “Juracán”, San Juan, Puerto Rico

  David Cole, “JaneJohnDoe.com”, Tucson, Arizona

  Leonard Schonberg, “Lame Elk”, Ashland, Montana

  Reed Farrel Coleman, “Another Role”, Los Angeles, California

  Lawrence Block, “Getting Lucky”, Upper Peninsula, Michigan

  Liz Martínez, “Prowling Wolves”, Chicago, Illinois

  Kimberly Roppolo, “Quilt like a Night Sky”, Alberta, Canada

  Kansas City Noir edited by Steve Paul

  J. Malcolm Garcia, “Missing Gene”, Troost Lake

  Kevin Prufer, “Cat in a Box”, Country Club Plaza

  Grace Suh, “Mission Hills Confidential”, Mission Hills

  Daniel Woodrell, “Come Murder Me Next, Babe”, 12th Street

  Matthew Eck, “The Softest Crime”, 41st and Walnut

  Philip Stephens, “You Shouldn’t Be Here”, Midtown

  Catherine Browder, “The Incident”, Northeast

  Linda Rodriguez, “The Good Neighbor”, South Troost

  John Lutz, “Thelma and Laverne”, West 8th Street

  Nancy Pickard, “Lightbulb”, The Paseo

  Andrés Rodríguez, “Yesterdays”, Milton’s Tap Room

  Mitch Brian, “Last Night at the Rialto”, The Cellulo
id City

  Nadia Pflaum, “Charlie Price’s Last Supper”, 18th and Vine

  Phong Nguyen, “The Pendergast Musket”, West Bottoms

  Las Vegas Noir edited by Jarret Keene & Todd James Pierce

  John O’Brien, “The Tik”, Scotch 80s

  David Corbett, “Pretty Little Parasite”, Fremont

  Tod Goldberg, “Mitzvah”, Summerlin

  Scott Phillips, “Babs”, Naked City

  Vu Tran, “This or Any Desert”, Chinatown

  Pablo Medina, “Benny Rojas and the Rough Riders”, West Las Vegas

  Christine McKellar, “Bits and Pieces”, Green Valley

  Preston L. Allen, “Crip”, Nellis

  Lori Kozlowski, “Three Times a Night, Every Other Night”, North Las Vegas

  Jaq Greenspon, “Disappear”, Sunset Park

  José Skinner, “All About Balls”, East Las Vegas

  Nora Pierce, “Atomic City”, Test Site

  Celeste Starr, “Dirty Blood”, Pahrump

  Bliss Esposito, “Guns Don’t Kill People”, Centennial Hills

  Felicia Campbell, “Murder Is Academic”, Mount Charleston

  Janet Berliner, “The Road to Rachel”, Area 51

  Lone Star Noir edited by Bobby Byrd & Johnny Byrd

  Lisa Sandlin, “Phelan’s First Case”, Beaumont

  Claudia Smith, “Catgirl”, Galveston

  David Corbett & Luis Urrea , “Who Stole My Monkey?”, Port Arthur

  Tim Tingle, “Six Dead Cabbies”, Ellington AFB

  James Crumley, “Luck”, Crumley, Texas

  Jessica Powers, “Preacher’s Kid”, Andrews

  Joe R. Lansdale, “Six-Finger Jack”, Gladewater

  George Wier, “Duckweed”, Littlefield

  Milton T. Burton, “Cherry Coke”, Tyler

  Sarah Cortez, “Montgomery Clift”, Houston

  Jesse Sublett, “Moral Hazard”, Austin

  Dean James, “Bottomed Out”, Dallas

  Ito Romo, “Crank”, San Antonio

  Bobby Byrd, “The Dead Man’s Wife”, El Paso

  Long Island Noir edited by Kaylie Jones

  Matthew McGevna, “Gateway to the Stars”, Mastic Beach

  Nick Mamatas, “Thy Shiny Car in the Night”, Northport

  Kaylie Jones, “Home Invasion”, Wainscott

  Qanta Ahmed, “Anjali’s America”, Garden City

  Charles Salzberg, “A Starr Burns Bright”, Long Beach

  Reed Farrel Coleman, “Mastermind”, Selden

  Tim McLoughlin, “Seven Eleven”, Wantagh

  Sarah Weinman, “Past President”, Great Neck

  Jules Feiffer, “Boob Noir”, Southampton

  JZ Holden, “Summer Love”, Sagaponack

  Richie Narvaez, “Ending in Paumanok”, Stony Brook

  Sheila Kohler, “Terror”, Amagansett

  Jane Ciabattari, “Contents of House”, Sag Harbor

  Steven Wishnia, “Semiconscious”, Lake Ronkonkoma

  Kenneth Wishnia, “Blood Drive”, Port Jefferson Station

  Amani Scipio, “Jabo’s”, Bridgehampton

  Tim Tomlinson, “Snow Job”, Wading River

  Los Angeles Noir edited by Denise Hamilton

  Michael Connelly, “Mulholland Dive”, Mulholland Drive

  Naomi Hirahara, “Number 19”, Koreatown

  Emory Holmes II, “Dangerous Days”, Leimert Park

  Denise Hamilton, “Midnight in Silicon Valley”, San Marino

  Janet Fitch, “The Method”, Los Feliz

  Patt Morrison, “Morocco Junction 90210”, Beverly Hills

  Christopher Rice, “Over Thirty”, West Hollywood

  Héctor Tobar, “Once More, Lazarus”, East Hollywood

  Susan Straight, “The Golden Gopher”, Downtown

  Jim Pascoe, “The Kidnapper Bell”, Los Angeles River

  Neal Pollack, “City of Commerce”, Commerce

  Lienna Silver, “Fish”, Fairfax District

  Gary Phillips, “Roger Crumbler Considered His Shave”, Mid-City

  Scott Phillips, “The Girl Who Kissed Barnaby Jones”, Pacific Palisades

  Brian Ascalon Roley, “Kinship”, Mar Vista

  Robert Ferrigno, “The Hour When the Ship Comes In”, Belmont Shore

  Diana Wagman, “What You See”, Westchester

  Manhattan Noir edited by Lawrence Block

  Charles Ardai, “The Good Samaritan”, Midtown

  Carol Lea Benjamin, “The Last Supper”, Greenwich Village

  Lawrence Block, “If You Can’t Stand the Heat”, Clinton

  Thomas H. Cook, “Rain”, Battery Park

  Jeffery Deaver, “A Nice Place to Visit”, Hell’s Kitchen

  Jim Fusilli, “The Next Best Thing”, George Washington Bridge

  Robert Knightly, “Take the Man’s Pay”, Garment District

  John Lutz, “The Laundry Room”, Upper West Side

  Liz Martínez, “Freddie Prinze Is My Guardian Angel”, Washington Heights

  Maan Meyers, “The Organ Grinder”, Lower East Side

  Martin Meyers , “Why Do They Have to Hit?” , Yorkville

  S.J. Rozan, “Building”, Harlem

  Justin Scott, “The Most Beautiful Apartment in New York”, Chelsea

  C.J. Sullivan, “The Last Round”, Inwood

  Xu Xi, “Crying with Audrey Hepburn”, Times Square

  Miami Noir edited by Les Standiford

  James W. Hall, “Ride Along”, Coconut Grove

  Christine Kling, “Dead Storage”, County Line

  George Tucker, “Silence of the Stone Age”, North Miami

  Kevin Allen, “Sawyers”, Perrine

  Anthony Dale Gagliano, “Blown Away”, Homestead

  Tom Corcoran, “One Man’s Ceiling”, Card Sound

  Paul Levine, “Solomon & Lord Drop Anchor”, Florida Straits

  David Beaty, “The Last of Lord Jitters”, South Miami

  John Dufresne, “The Timing of Unfelt Smiles”, Sunny Isles

  Vicki Hendricks, “Boozanne, Lemme Be”, Miami Beach

  Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, “The Recipe”, Downtown

  John Bond, “T-bird”, Miami River

  Preston L. Allen, “Swap Out”, Miami-Dade Correctional Center

  Lynne Barrett, “The Noir Boudoir”, Upper Eastside

  Barbara Parker, “Machete”, Biscayne Bay

  Jeffrey Wehr, “The Swimmers”, South Beach

  New Jersey Noir edited by Joyce Carol Oates

  S.A. Solomon, “Live for Today”, University Heights, Newark

  Lou Manfredo, “Soul Anatomy”, Whitman Park, Camden

  S.J. Rozan, “New Day Newark”, Central Ward, Newark

  C.K. Williams, “Newark Black: 1940–1954”, Vailsburg, Newark

  Jonathan Santlofer, “Lola”, Hoboken

  Bradford Morrow, “The Enigma of Grover’s Mill”, Grover’s Mill

  Gerald Stern, “Broken Glass”, Mickle Street, Camden

  Sheila Kohler, “Wunderlich”, Montclair

  Richard Burgin, “Atlantis”, Atlantic City

  Alicia Ostriker, “August: Feeding Frenzy”, Jersey Shore

  Hirsh Sawhney, “A Bag for Nicholas”, Jersey City

  Jeffrey Ford, “Glass Eels”, Dividing Creek

  B. Malzberg & B. Pronzini, “Meadowlands Spike”, Rutherford

  Robert Arellano, “Kettle Run”, Cherry Hill

  Paul Muldoon, “Noir, NJ”, Paramus

  Jonathan Safran Foer, “Too Near Real”, Princeton

  E. White & M. Carroll, “Excavation”, Asbury Park

  Robert Pinsky, “Long Branch Underground”, Long Branch

  Joyce Carol Oates, “Run Kiss Daddy”, Kittatinny Mountains

  New Orleans Noir edited by Julie Smith

  Ted O’Brien , “What’s the Score?”, Mid-City

  Patty Friedmann, “Two-Story Brick Houses”, Uptown

  Tim McLoughlin, “Scared Rabbit”, Irish Channel

  Olym
pia Vernon, “Schevoski”, University District

  David Fulmer, “Algiers”, Algiers

  Laura Lippman, “Pony Girl”, Tremé

  Jervey Tervalon, “The Battling Priests of Corpus Christi”, Seventh Ward

  James Nolan, “Open Mike”, French Quarter

  Kalamu ya Salaam, “All I Could Do Was Cry”, Lower Ninth Ward

  Barbara Hambly, “There Shall Your Heart Be Also”, The Swamp

  Maureen Tan, “Muddy Pond”, Village de l’Est

  Thomas Adcock, “Lawyers’ Tongues”, Gentilly

  Jeri Cain Rossi, “And Hell Walked In”, Bywater

  Christine Wiltz, “Night Taxi”, Lakeview

  Greg Herren, “Annunciation Shotgun”, Lower Garden District

  Julie Smith, “Loot”, Garden District

  Ace Atkins, “Angola South”, Loyola Avenue

  Eric Overmyer, “Marigny Triangle”, Faubourg Marigny

  Orange County Noir edited by Gary Phillips

  Susan Straight, “Bee Canyon”, Santa Ana Narrows

  Robert S. Levinson, “Down in Capistrano”, San Juan Capistrano

  Rob Roberge, “Diverters”, Tustin

  Nathan Walpow, “A Good Day’s Work”, Seal Beach

  Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, “Crazy for You”, Costa Mesa

  Dan Duling, “The Toll”, Laguna Beach

  Mary Castillo, “2:45 Out of Santa Ana”, Santa Ana

  Lawrence Maddox, “Old, Cold Hand”, City of Orange

  Dick Lochte, “The Movie Game”, Laguna Niguel

  Robert Ward, “Black Star Canyon”, Dana Point

  Gary Phillips, “The Performer”, Los Alamitos

  Gordon McAlpine, “The Happiest Place”, Anaheim

  Martin J. Smith, “Dark Matter”, Balboa Island

  Patricia McFall, “On the Night in Question”, Garden Grove

  Philadelphia Noir edited by Carlin Romano

  Aimee LaBrie, “Princess”, South Philadelphia

  Solomon Jones, “Scarred”, Strawberry Mansion

  Asali Solomon, “Secret Pool”, West Philadelphia

  Keith Gilman, “Devil’s Pocket”, Grays Ferry

  Dennis Tafoya, “Above the Imperial”, East Falls

  Laura Spagnoli, “A Cut Above”, Rittenhouse Square

  Halimah Marcus, “Swimming”, Narberth

  Meredith Anthony, “Fishtown Odyssey”, Fishtown

  Jim Zervanos, “Your Brother, Who Loves You”, Fairmount

  Carlin Romano , “‘Cannot Easy Normal Die’”, University City

  Diane Ayres, “Seeing Nothing”, Bella Vista

  Duane Swierczynski, “Lonergan’s Girl”, Frankford

  Cordelia Frances Biddle, “Reality”, Old City

  Gerald Kolpan, “The Ratcatcher”, South Street