New Orleans Noir

a Louisiana native and is now the Hallie Brown Ford Chair at Willamette University.

    C HRISTINE W ILTZ has written five books: a detective trilogy— The Killing Circle, A Diamond Before You Die, and The Emerald Lizard ; a novel, Glass House; and a biography, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld. All of her books are set in New Orleans, where she was born and still lives.

Also available from the Akashic Books Noir Series

    D.C. NOIR
edited by George
    304 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95
    Brand new stories by: George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, James Grady, Kenji Jasper, Jim Beane, Ruben Castaneda, Robert Wisdom, James Patton, Norman Kelley, Jennifer Howard, Jim Fusilli, Richard Currey, Lester Irby, Quintin Peterson, Robert Andrews, and David Slater.
    G EORGE P ELECANOS is a screenwriter, independent-indepen-and dent-film producer, award-winning journalist, and the author of the bestselling series of Derek Strange novels set in and around Washington, D.c., where he lives with his wife and children.

    BROOKLYN NOIR
edited by Tim McLoughlin
    350 pages, a trade paperback original, $15.95
    *Winner of S HAMUS A WARD , A NTHONY A WARD , R OBERT L. F ISH M EMORIAL A WARD ; Finalist for E DGAR A WARD , P USHCART P RIZE
    Twenty brand new crime stories from New York’s punchiest borough.
    Contributors include: Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Maggie Estep, Nelson George, Neal Pollack, 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. Story after story is a revelation, filled with the requisite sense of place, but also the perfect twists that crime stories demand. 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

    MIAMI NOIR edited by Les Standiford
356 pages, trade paperback, $15.95
    Brand new stories by: James W. Hall, Barbara Parker, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Corcoran, Christine Kling, George Tucker, Kevin Allen, Anthony Dale Gagliano, David Beaty, Vicki Hendricks, John Bond, Preston Allen, Lynne Barrett, and Jeffrey Wehr.
    “Variety, familiarity, mood and tone, and the occasional gem of a

MANHATTAN NOIR
edited by Lawrence Block
    257 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95
    Brand new stories by: Jeffery Deaver, Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, Thomas H. Cook, Jim Fusilli, Robert Knightly, John Lutz, Liz Martínez, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, C.J. Sullivan, and Xu Xi.
    L AWRENCE B LOCK has won most of the major mystery awards, and has been called the quintes-has quintes-sentialquintes-city’s mystery awards, and has been called the quintes-sentialquintes-city’s quintes-has sential New York writer, although he insists the far too big to have a quintessential writer. His series characters—Matthew Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, Chip Harrison, and Keller—all live in Manhattan; like their creator, they wouldn’t really be happy anywhere else.

    SAN FRANCISCO NOIR
edited by Peter Maravelis
    292 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95
    Brand new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro Murguía, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry.

    BALTIMORE NOIR
edited by Laura Lippman
    298 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95
    Brand new stories by: David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart.
    These books are available at local bookstores.
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