Mystery/Fiction Anthology | A Trade Paperback Original
ISBN-13: 978-1-936070-66-4 l 280 pages | $15.95
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Scandinavian writing has come to dominate the global crime-fiction landscape, and this volume offers a delicious, devious sampling.

Featuring brand-new stories by: Naja Marie Aidt, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Helle Helle, Christian Dorph & Simon Pasternak, Susanne Staun, Kaaberbol & Friis, Klaus Rifbjerg, Gretelise Holm, Georg Ursin, Kristian Lundberg, Kristina Stoltz, Seyit Ozturk, Benn Q. Holm, and Gunnar Staalesen.

Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

"The latest entry in the publisher's series (41 and counting) proves the resilience of, and market for, these locale noirs. Editor Micha‘lis, a Danish book critic, is both scholarly and insightful in the introduction and outlines how the stories reflect the greed and ennui of modern Denmark in contrast to the Danish idyll depicted in tourist brochures. [...] Although some stories veer from noir orthodoxy, there are fine examples of lyrical writing, noir sensibilities, and insight into the current Danish psyche. Overall, a very impressive anthology."
--Library Journal

"The indefatigable noir series of anthologies (Orange County Noir, Trinidad Noir, Brooklyn Noir 3, etc.) focuses in its 43rd volume on the home of Hans Christian Andersen. [...] Based on this collection, Copenhagen may be a great place to visit, but nobody seems to live there, at least not well or long."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Fans used to the watered-down noir now prevalent in America will notice immediately the much harder edge of these stories, which are much closer to the noir of the 1940s and '50s."
--Booklist

"[This] volume has grim, uncomfortable power."
--Publishers Weekly

JOINING PARIS, ROME, LONDON, AND DUBLIN as European hosts for the Akashic Noir Series, Copenhagen Noir features brand-new stories from a top-notch crew of Danish writers, with several Swedish and Norwegian writers thrown into the mix. This volume definitively reveals why Scandinavian crime-fiction has come to be so popular across the world.

Bo Tao Michaelis is a book critic and editor living in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents: Copenhagen Noir

Introduction

PART I: (Men and) Women
"Women in Copenhagen" NAJA MARIE AIDT (Inner City)
"One of the Rough Ones " JONAS T. BENGTSSON (Northwest)
"A Fine Boy" HELLE HELLE (Vanl¿se)
"Australia" C. DORPH & S. PASTERNAK (Vesterbro)
"All I want is my baby woah woah, woah woah woah" SUSANNE STAUN (Inner City)

PART II: MAMMON
"When the Time Came" KAABERB¯L & FRIIS (¯restad)
"Debt of Honor" KLAUS RIFBJERG (Amager)
"When It's Tough Out There" GRETELISE HOLM (Vesterbro)
"Sleipner's Assignment" GEORG URSIN (Frederiksberg)

PART III: Corpses
"Byen og Grusomheden" KRISTIAN LUNDBERG (S) (Malm¿)
"The Elephant's Tusks" KRISTINA STOLTZ (N¿rrebro)
"The Booster Station" SEYIT …ZT†RK (Valby)
"The Great Actor" BENN Q. HOLM (Frederiksberg)
"Last Train from Central Station " GUNNAR STAALESEN (Vesterbro)