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SAN DIEGO NOIRedited by Maryelizabeth Hart Mystery/Fiction Anthology | A Trade Paperback Original
San Diego may be known as "America's finest city," but its deadly alter ego is hereby exposed! * Click here for events featuring the editors and select contributors * Click here to see more titles in the Akashic Noir Series. * Selected by San Diego Union-Tribune as one of the five best books of 2011, by January Magazine as one of the best crime fiction books of 2011, and by Zoom Street Magazine as the best anthology of the year! * FINALIST for SCIBA's 2011 T. Jefferson Parker Book Award for Mystery & Thrillers
"When it's done right, noir is a darkly delicious thrill: smart, sharp-tongued, surprising. The knife goes in at the end with a twist. San Diego Noir, a new 15-story collection by some of the region's best writers, has all that going for it, and the steady supply of hometown references makes it even more fun."
"Perfect for adventurous book groups and for travelers seeking the less rosy side of the cities they're planning to visit."
Featuring brand-new stories by: T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Gar Anthony Haywood, Gabriel R. Barillas, Maria Lima, Debra Ginsberg, Diane Clark and Astrid Bear, Ken Kuhlken, Lisa Brackmann, Cameron Pierce Hughes, Morgan Hunt, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Martha Lawrence, and Taffy Cannon.
San Diego is home to miles of beaches, Balboa Park, a world-famous zoo, and some of the country's most expensive home and resort real estate. Yet the city also houses a few items that aren't actively promoted by the visitor's bureau: a number of the country's most corrupt politicians, border-related crimes, terrorists, and the occasional earthquakes. A noir feast!
In the 50-plus years since Raymond Chandler set Playback in Esmeralda, his name for La Jolla, the population has grown by more than a million, and crime has proliferated as well. San Diego of the past and the present offers the book's contributors a rich selection of settings, from the cross on Mount Soledad to the piers of Ocean Beach, and perpetrators and victims from the residents of its wealthiest enclaves to the inhabitants of its segregated barrios.
Maryelizabeth Hart is a coowner of Mysterious Galaxy, an independent mystery and science fiction bookstore in San Diego, founded in 1993. In addition to her bookseller responsibilities, she is a reviewer for Publishers Weekly and an occasional contributor to works of nonfiction, including Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Greenwood Press).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction PART I: WORKING STIFFS PART II: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PART III: LIFE'S A BEACH PART IV: BOUNDARIES & BORDERS |
