We’re thrilled to share that three original stories published in Noir Series anthologies in 2014 have been named finalists for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story.
It was a typical August night in Tokyo when each breath felt like you were sucking cotton into your lungs. . .
Skeleton umbrella. Coney Island crucifix. Tilyou’s Eiffel Tower. Steeplechase shrine. Icon. Landmark: looming, impotent, mocking, futile, naked, moot, regal, red, and ridiculous. Soaring twenty-six stories above the beach and boardwalk, passersby genuflecting at its feet, the Parachute Jump was all of these and none of these and more. Never less. Never. All you had to do was ask Richie . . .
Two stories from Santa Cruz Noir have been honored in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019!
The entire Noir Series backlist is on sale wherever e-books are sold for just $2.99 a title through October 31, 2014!
Mondays Are Murder features brand-new noir fiction modeled after our award-winning Noir Series. Each story is an original one, and each takes place in a distinct location. Our web model for the series has one more restraint: a 750-word limit. Sound like murder? It is. But so are Mondays. This week, Gary Phillips (editor of […]
Dennis Lehane’s short story “Animal Rescue” — originally published in Boston Noir and also featured in USA Noir — has been adapted into a major motion picture, starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini.
Now Available: Oakland Noir, edited by Eddie Muller and Jerry Thompson.