Akashic Books

• Apr-2004
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Praise for Percival Everett:�"If Percival Everett isn’t already a household name, it’s because people are more interested in politics than truth.”� -- Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Washington Square Ensemble�"Everett’s talent is multifac...

• Jul-2004
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This award-winning anthology of original crime fiction exploring Brooklyn’s many enclaves features new stories by Pete Hamill, Maggie Estep and others.New York’s punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with this collection of stories from s...

• Jun-2005
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This anthology of classic noir set in NYC’s County of Kings features stories by Thomas Wolfe, Lawrence Block, Maggie Estep and more. On the heels of the award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir -- a collection of all-new Brooklyn-based crime fic...

• Sep-2005
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Nelson Algren, Richard Wright, and Patricia Highsmith are just three of the iconic authors included in this outstanding volume.“In this superior entry in Akashic’s noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction. . . . Fam...

• Sep-2005
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Gritty crime fiction filled with dark Irish wit from Eoin Colfer, James O. Born, Laura Lippman, and many more.   The Irish master of noir Ken Bruen -- and an all-star lineup of award-winning authors from both sides of the Atlantic -- shine ...

• Oct-2005
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This anthology of “genuinely haunting noir fiction” set in the Golden City features new stories by Jim Nisbet, Alejandro Murguía, Michelle Tea and others (Publishers Weekly).   Oscar Wilde once quipped that anyone who disappears is said to ...

• Feb-2006
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Sixteen stories of capital crimes and misdemeanors -- the basis for the film directed by George Pelecanos, producer and writer of The Wire.   Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of storie...

• Apr-2006
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The publisher's fast-growing Noir series includes Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Dublin, Chicago, San Francisco--and now Manhattan. The volumes are uneven, but when the right editor sits at the desk, the results can be well worthwhile, as is ...

• Jun-2006
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Reggae's rebel spirit blazes in this hot selection of short fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop. Set in the Caribbean and the U.S.A., the stories sweep across a range of moods and genres to create a narrative LP of fascinating voices. F...

• Jun-2006
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An expanded edition -- with brand-new stories added to the fourth printing of this best-selling Noir Series installment. Here, the unseemly underside of Minneapolis/St. Paul is revealed like never before.“If you’ve never read an Akashic Noir book...

• Aug-2006
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Cooper & Mansbach team with some of today’s most talented writers to vitalize American history.“This is a ‘people’s history’ with tongue in cheek: delightfully funny, imaginative, but with a subtle undertone of seriousness. I enjoyed it...

• Aug-2006
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Serpent’s Tail novelist Unsworth teases, tickles, and horrifies with her stellar curation of London Noir.Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is se...

• Nov-2006
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The long-awaited sequel to 2006’s best-selling Miami Noir highlights an outstanding tradition of legendary writers exploring the dark side of paradise.“An exceptional treat for all dedicated fans of noir fiction.” -- Midwest Book Rev...

• Jan-2007
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This anthology brings to light some of the new fiction writers who are using the Internet’s labyrinthine array of blogs and personal web pages to expose, test, and develop their work. They are gay, straight, young, old, and in some cases still sear...

• Feb-2007
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"There's a new player stepping into the street-lit spotlight, and he's one to watch...Urban libraries have to get Got."--Library Journal (starred review)"A gritty, streetwise debut [with] solid writing and unrelenting, brutal detail...The firs...

• Apr-2007
• / Mystery
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“Explores the dark corners of our city . . . set both pre- and post-Katrina . . . harrowing reading, to be sure, but it’s pure page-turning pleasure, too.” -- The Times-Picayune   Residents of the Big Easy ar...

• May-2007
• / Mystery
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Los Angeles Noir brings you tales of crime and passion and betrayal from some of the most innovative and celebrated writers working today. -- A Los Angeles Times best seller, Book Sense Notable Pick, and SCIBA Book Award WinnerAkashic ...

• Jun-2007
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This anthology explores the dark side of finance from Manhattan to Bangkok and Tel Aviv, featuring new stories by Jim Fusilli, Lauren Sanders and more.   Wall Street often looks like a gleaming world of high-end professionalism where decisions t...

• Aug-2007
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Fiction by Marlon James, Kevin Baker, and more: “Captures the immense diversity . . . from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale” (Publishers Weekly).   Set amid landmarks like Yankee Stadium and the Bronx ...

• Oct-2007
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“[A] superb collection . . . The 18 stories by current and former residents of Havana are gritty, heartbreaking and capture the city.” -- Orlando Sentinel   To most outsiders, Havana is a tropical sin city. Habaneros know tha...

• Nov-2007
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This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City “is one of the best in Akashic Books’ noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology.” -- Reviewing the Evidence   From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vivid...

• Nov-2007
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All original stories from Paris' finest authors, all translated from French.Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or loca...

• Jan-2008
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Nineteen authors share mystery stories set in New York City’s largest borough in this anthology.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new st...

• May-2008
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Launched by the summer '04 award-winning bestseller 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 t...

• May-2008
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“Stories of murder, passion, betrayal . . . grounded very firmly and specifically in Toronto -- Dundas Square, The Beach, Dufferin Mall, Yorkville, etc.” -- BlogTO   A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, Af...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. This volume presents the first nonfiction collection in the series, curated by acclaimed novelists Tim McLoughlin and Thomas Adcock.Br...

• Jul-2008
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“There’s a new player stepping into the street-lit spotlight, and he’s one to watch. . . . Urban libraries have to get Got.” -- Library Journal, on D’s debut novel Got (starred review)

It’s less than six months after the events o...

• Aug-2008
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Eighteen authors share dark mysteries set on the sunny Caribbean island in this anthology.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of all-new stories,...

• Sep-2008
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In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America’s mighty capital.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories se...

• Sep-2008
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Following the commercial success of the original Manhattan Noir, mystery titan Lawrence Block digs even deeper into the New York noir legacy. Classic reprints from: Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Irwin Shaw, Jerrold Mundis, Edgar Allan Poe, ...

• Nov-2008
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Istanbul Noir presents stories from a city at once ancient and modern, Asian and European, postcard-perfect and simmering with rage.“Istanbul straddles the divide of Europe and Asia, and its polyglot population of 12 million seethes with polit...

• Feb-2009
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Rome Noir looks beyond the tourist facade of Italy’s capital. This is the real city of Fellini, Pasolini, and countless other major artists who devoted their lives to depicting its grandeur and decadence.Brand-new stories from: Antonio Scurati, C.D...

• Feb-2009
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Dashiell Hammett and William Vollmann are just two treats in this stellar sequel to the smash-hit original volume of San Francisco Noir, which captures the dark mythology of a world-class locale.Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series ...

• Jun-2009
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Explore the dark, rainy underbelly of one of America's most beautiful but enigmatic cities.Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neigh...

• Jun-2009
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“Featuring short, edgy fiction on the Emerald City’s seamy underbelly . . . seedy characters, private detectives and the like from all over urban Seattle.” -- Kitsap Daily News   Early Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport fil...

• Aug-2009
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“This book is a chance to get a fix on some of India’s best crime writers” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).   These fourteen original stories, from some of India’s most outstanding literary talents, take you into a world of sex in parks, m...

• Nov-2009
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Dennis Lehane steps up to the plate as editor and presents a scintillating collection of deep, dark fiction.“Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales stan...

• Nov-2009
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Sixteen stories reveal the dark side of Arizona’s capital, including tales from #1 New York Times�"bestselling authors Lee Child and Diana Gabaldon.   Even a desert metropolis has its share of cold-blooded criminals. Along with suburban spraw...

• Dec-2009
• / Mystery
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Cocaine is the subject, the subtext, the whys and wherefores in this collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, and at all times riveting. Contributors include Susan Straight, Lee Child, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman...

• Mar-2010
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The River City emerges as a hot spot for unseemly noir in this anthology with a foreword by New York Times�"bestselling author Tom Robbins.   A rich literary tradition sets the stage for this talented group of authors who take their inspiration...

• Apr-2010
• / General Fiction
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From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in ...

• Apr-2010
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Orange County, California, brings to mind the endless summer of sand and surf, McMansion housing tracts, a conservative stronghold, and tony shopping centers. It's a place where pilates classes are run like boot camps, real estate values are discusse...

• Jun-2010
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Step into Indian Country. Enter the dark welter of troubled history throughout the Americas, where the heritage of violence meets the ferocity of intent. Features brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac...

• Jun-2010
• / General Fiction
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The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face -- and it isn’t always pretty. Following Akashic Books’ international success with London Noir, Delhi Noir, Paris Noir, and others, the Noir series ex...

• Nov-2010
• / Mystery
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“Traverses Texas, finding evidence of the hard boiled, sultry, and disreputable throughout the state . . . Think of the book as a sort of criminal travelogue.” -- Booklist   If everything is bigger in Texas, then that include...

• Nov-2010
• / Mystery
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“A collection enhanced by an unerring sense of place, with no clinkers . . . that will please the most discriminating lovers of the dark side.” -- Kirkus Reviews   From its posh Main Line to its blue-collar enclaves, Philadel...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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“A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island,” from a lineup of authors including two National Book Award finalists (Kirkus Reviews).   “The Haitian-born Danticat has brought her country’s literature back in...

• Dec-2010
• / Mystery
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Scandinavian writing has been dominating the global crime fiction landscape, and this volume offers a delicious, devious sampling.“The latest entry in the publisher’s series (41 and counting) proves the resilience of, and market for, these locale...

• May-2011
• / Mystery
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Includes brand-new stories by: Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Imma Monso, Santiago Roncagliolo, Francisco "Paco" Gonzalez Ledesma, Valerie Miles, David Barba, Isabel Franc, Lolita Bosch, Eric C. Aragon, Antonia Cortijos, Cristina Fallaras, Raul Argemi, Teresa...

• May-2011
• / Mystery
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Southern California is not all sun, sand, and surf in this gripping collection of noir tales from T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Maria Lima, and others.   San Diego is home to miles of beaches, Balboa Park, a world-famous zoo, and some of the...

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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Includes brand-new stories by Paul Tremblay, Seth Greenland, Ben Greenman, Fred G. Leebron, David L. Ulin, Dana Cameron, Kaylie Jones, and others. Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin has been vacationing in Cape Cod every summer since he w...

• Jun-2011
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Includes brand-new stories by Stewart O'Nan, Hilary Masters, Lila Shaara, Rebecca Drake, Kathleen George, Paul Lee, K. C. Constantine, Nancy Martin, Kathryn Miller Haines, Terrance Hayes, Carlos Delgado, Aubrey Hirsch, Tom Lipinski, and Reginald McKn...

• Nov-2011
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Featuring brand-new stories (and a few poems) by: Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White & Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford M...

• Dec-2011
• / Mystery
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Brand-new stories by: Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, James Franco, Megan Abbott, Jerry Stahl, Beth Lisick, Jess Walter, Scott Phillips, James Greer, Tao Lin, Joseph Mattson, Natalie Diaz, Kenji Jasper, and Rose Bunch. The subject of speed is...

• Mar-2012
• / Mystery
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Featuring brand-new stories by: Annie Zaidi, R. Raj Rao, Abbas Tyrewala, Avtar Singh, Ahmed Bunglowala, Smita Harish Jain, Sonia Faleiro, Altaf Tyrewala, Namita Devidayal, Jerry Pinto, Kalpish Ratna, Riaz Mulla, Paromita Vohra, and Devashish Makhija....

• May-2012
• / Mystery
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Original stories by: Jules Feiffer, Matthew McGevna, Nick Mamatas, Kaylie Jones, Qanta Ahmed, Charles Salzberg, Reed Farrel Coleman, Tim McLoughlin, Sarah Weinman, JZ Holden, Richie Narvaez, Sheila Kohler, Jane Ciabattari, Steven Wishnia, Kenneth Wis...

• Jun-2012
• / Mystery
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Original stories by: Marlon James, Kwame Dawes, Patricia Powell, Colin Channer, Marcia Douglas, Leone Ross, Kei Miller, Christopher John Farley, Ian Thomson, Thomas Glave, and Chris Abani. ""Kingston Noir" goes darker and deeper than any before...th...

• Jun-2012
• / Mystery
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Original stories by: Peter James, Emily St. John Mandel, Barbara Baraldi, Mike Hodges, Mary Hoffman, Maria Tronca, Matteo Righetto, Tony Cartano, Francesco Ferracin, Isabella Santacroce, Michelle Lovric, Francesca Mazzucato, Maxim Jakubowski, and Mic...

• Aug-2012
• / Mystery
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Original stories by: Lena Eltang, Sergei Nosov, Alexander Kudriavstev, Andrei Kivinov, Julia Belomlinsky, Natalia Kurchatova, Kseniya Venglinskaya, Evgeniy Kogan, Anton Chizh, Konstantin Gavrilov, Vladimir Berezin, Andrei Rubanov, and others....

• Oct-2012
• / Mystery
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Brand-new stories from: J. Malcolm Garcia, Grace Suh, Daniel Woodrell, Kevin Prufer, Matthew Eck, Philip Stephens, Catherine Browder, John Lutz, Nancy Pickard, Linda Rodriguez, Andrés Rodríguez, Mitch Brian, Nadia Pflaum, and Phong Nguyen....

• Nov-2012
• / Mystery
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Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller!"The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andr...

• Nov-2012
• / Mystery
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Dennis Lehane returns to coedit the sequel to the best-selling evergreen anthology Boston Noir. ...

• Nov-2012
• / Mystery
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New York's fifth borough finally enters the Noir Series arena, completing the series tour of the world's noirest city. ...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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Inspired by the ongoing international success of the city-based Akashic Noir Series ("Brooklyn Noir," "Boston Noir," "Paris Noir," etc.), last year Akashic created the new Drug Chronicles series. On the heels of "The Speed Chronicles" (Sherman Alexie...

• Jan-2013
• / Mystery
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Discover dark mysteries nestled in every borough of the Big Apple in this collection of five noir short story anthologies.New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set collects the five NYC borough installments in our award-winning Akashic Noir Series int...

• Jun-2013
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Lourd De Veyra, Gina A...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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""A gem" of a collection of marijuana stories, poems and artwork by Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Linda Yablonsky, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, and others (New York Journal of Books). It's known by many names: Pot. Gr"...

• Nov-2013
• / Mystery
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Contributors include: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, Jerome Charyn, ...

• Nov-2013
• / Mystery
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Brand-new stories by: Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, Gary Earl Ross, Kim Chinquee, Tom Fontana, Lissa Marie Redmond, S.J. Rozan, John Wray, Christina Milletti, Peter J. Ramos, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Connie Rose Porter, and others. Buffalo, Ne...

• Nov-2013
• / Mystery
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Featuring brand-new stories by: Kathleen Kent, Ben Fountain, James Hime, Harry Hunsicker, Matt Bondurant, Merritt Tierce, Daniel J. Hale, Emma Rathbone, Jonathan Woods, Oscar C. Peña, Clay Reynolds, Lauren Davis, Fran Hillyer, Catherine Cuellar, Dav...

• Jan-2014
• / Mystery
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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 wit...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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“This wonderful anthology of fresh voices . . . includes writers from Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.” -- Booklist   Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press, two of the foremo...

• Jun-2014
• / Mystery
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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 withi...

• Sep-2014
• / Suspense
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location withi...

• Oct-2014
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location withi...

• Oct-2014
• / Mystery
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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 withi...

• Nov-2014
• / Mystery
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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 withi...

• Nov-2014
• / Mystery
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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 withi...

• Jun-2015
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring brand-new stories by: John Searles...

• Sep-2015
• / Mystery
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Although Los Angeles may be considered the most quintessentially "noir" American city, this volume reveals that pound-for-pound, Chicago has historically been able to stand up to any other metropolis in the noir arena. Classic reprints from: Harry...

• Nov-2015
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring brand-new stories by: Richard J. A...

• Nov-2015
• / Mystery
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Eastern European history is filled with noir-ish and harrowing tales, and Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia, certainly has its fill. Editor Sršen has curated a diverse, powerful, and dramatic group of stories that offer tremendous insight into the...

• Dec-2015
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring brand-new stories by: Rawi Hage, M...

• Dec-2015
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. The Akashic Noir Series first ventured into ...

• Mar-2016
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stor...

• Jun-2016
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Tony Bellotto, Luiz Al...

• Aug-2016
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. Brand-new stories by: Ace Atkins,...

• Aug-2016
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Calvin Wilson, LaVelle...

• Sep-2016
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Barbara Abel, Ayerdhal...

• Jul-2017
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. This much-anticip...

• Nov-2017
• / Mystery
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The Noir Series dives deeper into Latin America, into a city with a long history, both glorious and sinister....

• Apr-2018
• / Literary
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Matthew is a sixteen-year-old living in Jackson Heights, Queens, in 1976. After he loses his two most important male role models, his father and grandfather, his mother uses her inheritance to uproot Matthew and herself to a posh apartment building i...

• May-2018
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Set in early 1970s Detroit, a racially divided city still reeling from its violent riot of 1967, BEAUTIFUL MUSIC is the story of one young man's transformation through music. Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio-loving loner balancing a dysfunctional ...

• Jun-2018
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographic area of the book. West Africa enters th...

• Jun-2018
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographic area of the book. Following in the foot...

• Jun-2018
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Featuring brand-new stories by: Tony Bellotto, Olivia Maia, Marcelo Freire, Beatriz Bracher, Maria S. Carvalhosa, Fernando Bonassi, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Marçal Aquino, Jô Soares, Mario Prata, Férrez, Vanessa Barbara, Ilana Casoy, and Drauzio Vare...

• Jul-2018
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December 1959: a furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace, traumatized after two years working in the army intelligence services and accused of ...

• Jul-2018
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"The 17 selections of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in this vibrant collection unite the voices of islanders from around the globe, complete with an excellent introduction by Marlon James...Readers encounter the language, customs, and flora and ...

• Aug-2018
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographic area of the book. One of the world's mo...

• Aug-2018
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographic area of the book. Northern Africa final...

• Sep-2018
• / Fantasy
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"This book is one of the most powerful installments...A satisfying conclusion to a series that takes readers on a very unusual journey, filled with emotional highs and lows."--School Library Journal XPress Reviews

"This is a bang-up ending to th...

• Oct-2018
• / Historical
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Finalist for the 2019 Oklahoma Book Awards, Fiction

"The murder investigation allows Loewenstein to probe into the lives of proud people who would never expose their troubles to strangers. People like John Hodge, the town's most respected lawyer...

• Oct-2018
• / General Fiction
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"This enjoyable book delivers a lesson, and its playful drawings invite the young reader into a wonderful place somewhere between fantasy and reality."--New York Times Book Review

"A girl frustrated with her parents' rules fires them and hires a...

• Nov-2018
• / Literary
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When Sam, a bartender in New York, hears that his ex, Vicki, his one true love, has quit AA and is out drinking again, he embarks on a quest to find her. Sam and his sidekick Francis trek from dive bars to gay bars to rocker bars--encountering skinhe...

• Nov-2018
• / Mystery
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Linda L. Richards's "Terminal City" has received the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story presented by Crime Writers of Canada!

Editor Sam Wiebe's "Wonderful Life" has been named a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Shor...

• Jan-2019
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stor...

• Jan-2019
• / Mystery
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stor...

• Mar-2019
• / Literary
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A Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet "Best of the Bunch" Fiction Pick

"High school basketball player Nancy Takahiro's future is uncertain. She's courted by recruiters from various colleges, but isn't sure where she'll go once high school ends....

• Mar-2019
• / Literary
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Rick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC, struggling to make rent on the South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W--, th...

• May-2019
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“A city with a rich noir past looks beyond its history to an equally unsettling present” in this anthology of original noir fiction set in Berlin (Kirkus Reviews).   From Christopher Isherwood to Philip Kerr, the long and rich tradition of n...

• Mar-2020
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"Like the rest of the state of Ohio, Columbus has been hit hard by the opioid crisis, and the stories included in Akashic''s ode to the city are as full of misery as the city currently is in real life. Moments of humanity shine through in many of the...

• Aug-2020
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Tampa Bay joins Miami in representing the (alleged) Sunshine State in the Noir Series arena.“Fifteen tales that reveal the dark side of sunny Tampa Bay.” -- Kirkus ReviewsAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir antholog...

• Sep-2020
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Lee Child recruits Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, Cara Black, and others to reveal nicotine’s scintillating alter egos.“Sixteen tributes to America’s guiltiest pleasure . . . Even confirmed anti-smokers will find something to savor.” -- K...

• Nov-2022
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The Akashic Noir series' forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles' most recognized neighborhoods.Featuring brand-new stories by: Steph Cha, Nikolas Charles, Tananarive Due, Larry Fondation, Gar Anthony Haywoo...