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Orange County NoirEdited by Gary Phillips with a foreword by T. Jefferson Parker Mystery/Fiction Anthology | A Trade Paperback Original
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A hard-boiled tour behind the Orange Curtain. "There's a dark side to most places," even California's sunny Orange County, Edgar-winner T. Jefferson Parker observes in his foreword to this outstanding entry in Akashic's noir series, one of the stronger of the all-original anthologies. The crisp, often seductive prose of the 14 contributors, most of them relatively unknown, is a tribute to the critical judgment of the editor."--Publishers Weekly *STARRED* review.
Brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Robert S. Levinson, Rob Roberge, Nathan Walpow, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Dan Duling, Mary Castillo, Lawrence Maddox, Dick Lochte, Robert Ward, Gary Phillips, Gordon McAlpine, Martin J. Smith, and Patricia McFall. 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.Orange County, California, brings to mind the endless summer of sand and surf, McMansion housing tracts, a conservative stronghold, tony shopping centers where pilates classes are run like boot camp and real-estate values are discussed at your weekly colonic, and ice-cream parlors on Main Street, U.S.A., exist side-by-side with pho shops and taquerias. Orange County Noir takes you for a hardboiled tour behind the Orange Curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver prowls the streets with more than the ticking meter on his mind, where cultures clash, housewives want more than the perfect grout cleaner, and nobody is who they seem to be. Stories in Orange County Noir include contributions from Edgar Award winner Susan Straight, Hammett Award nominee Robert Ward, Chicana lit writer Mary Castillo, Los Angeles Times best seller Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Nero Wolfe Award winner Dick Lochte, and editor-in-chief of Orange Coast Magazine, Martin J. Smith. Gary Phillips (editor & contributor) is the author of many novels, and was coeditor of the jaw-grinding story collection The Cocaine Chronicles. He has contributed stories to Dublin Noir, Los Angeles Noir, and Phoenix Noir. His critically acclaimed work includes the World War II novel Freedom's Fight and the crime graphic novel Cowboys.
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