The Cocaine Chronicles
The best fiction anthology of cocaine-themed tales to blow through in years, featuring all-new stories from Susan Straight, Lee Child, Jerry Stahl, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Bill Moody, Nina Revoyr, and many more.
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Gary Phillips
GARY PHILLIPS has published novels, comics, and short stories, and edited numerous anthologies. Violent Spring, first published in 1994, was named one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. Culprits, a linked anthology he coedited, has been optioned as a British miniseries, and he was a staff writer on FX’s Snowfall about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central, where he grew up. He is the editor of Orange County Noir, and the coeditor of The Cocaine Chronicles. He has contributed stories to Dublin Noir, Los Angeles Noir, Phoenix Noir, and The Heroin Chronicles. South Central Noir is his latest anthology.
Author Events
- Sep 3, 2022: South Central Noir featuring Gary Phillips and contributors – Southern California Library (Los Angeles, CA)
- Sep 8, 2022: South Central Noir featuring Gary Phillips, Emory Holmes II, Jeri Westerson, and Désirée Zamarano – Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
- Sep 22, 2022: VIRTUAL EVENT: South Central Noir featuring Gary Phillips, Tananarive Due, and Jervey Tervalon – Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA)
- Sep 22, 2022: VIRTUAL EVENT: South Central Noir featuring Gary Phillips, Gar Anthony Haywood, and Penny Mickelbury – Poisoned Pen (Scottsdale, AZ)
- Oct 12, 2022: South Central Noir featuring Gary Phillips, Naomi Hirahara, Jeri Westerson, and Désirée Zamarano – Vroman’s (Pasadena, CA)
Titles
Drug Chronicles (5-Book Set)
For a limited time, receive paperback copies of all books currently in our Drug Chronicles series (The Nicotine Chronicles, The Marijuana Chronicles, The Heroin Chronicles, The Speed Chronicles, and The Cocaine Chronicles) for $40, plus shipping!
Orange County Noir
You may be disturbed—or possibly titillated—to discover what can happen once you cross the Orange Curtain . . .
South Central Noir
Forthcoming: 9/6/22
The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’s most recognized neighborhoods.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before September 6, 2022.
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Dublin Noir (Ireland)
Irish crime-fiction sensation Ken Bruen and cohorts shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin.
The Heroin Chronicles
The latest entry in the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series. Heroin has long been understood as the most “literary” of narcotics, and this collection will, for better and worse, have tremendous pop cultural appeal.
Los Angeles Noir
Los Angeles Noir brings you tales of crime and passion and betrayal from some of the most innovative and celebrated writers working today.
Phoenix Noir
Lee Child, Diana Gabaldon, James Sallis, and others reveal how, in Phoenix, sunshine is the new noir.