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landmarks and streets, this is the sinister side of the Dolce Vita come to life, a stunning gallery of dark characters, grotesques, and lost souls seeking revenge or redemption in the shadow of the Colosseum, the Spanish Steps, the Vatican, Trastevere, the quiet waters of the Tiber, and Piazza Navona. Rome will never be the same.

ISTANBUL NOIR

edited by Mustafa Ziyalan edited by Mustafa Ziyalan & Amy Spangler 300 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

Brand new stories by:Müge Iplikçi, Behçet Çelik, Ismail Güzelsoy, Lydia Lunch, Hikmet Hükümenoglu, Riza Kiraç, Sadik Yemni, Baris Müstecaplioglu, Yasemin Aydinoglu, Feryal Tilmaç, and others.

Comprised of entirely new stories by some of Turkey’s most exciting authors—some still up-and-coming, others well-established and critically acclaimed in their homeland, as well as by a couple of “outsiders” temporarily held hostage in the city’s vice—Istanbul Noirintroduces a whole new breed of talent.

BROOKLYN NOIR

edited by Tim McLoughlin

350 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

*Winner of Shamus Award, Anthony Award, Robert L. Fish Memorial

Award; finalist for Edgar Award, Pushcart Prize.

Brand new stories by:Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Ellen Miller, Nelson George, Nicole Blackman, Sidney Offit, Ken Bruen, and others.

“Brooklyn Noiris such a stunningly perfect combination that you can’t believe you haven’t read an anthology like this before. But trust me—you haven’t. Story after story is a revelation, filled with the requisite sense of place, but also the perfect twists that crime stories demand. The writing is flat-out superb, filled with lines that will sing in your head for a long time to come.”

head for a long time to come.”

—Laura Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Shamus awards

LOS ANGELES NOIR

edited by Denise Hamilton

360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95 *A Los Angeles Timesbest seller and winner of an Edgar Award.

Brand new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Héctor Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Neal Pollack, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, and others.

“Akashic is making an argument about the universality of noir; it’s sort of flattering, really, and Los Angeles Noir,arriving at last, is a kaleidoscopic collection filled with the ethos of noir pioneers Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

HAVANA NOIR

edited by Achy Obejas

360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

Brand new stories by:Leonardo Padura, Pablo Medina, Carolina García-Aguilera, Ena Lucía Portela, Miguel Mejides, Arnaldo Correa, Alex Abella, Moisés Asís, Lea Aschkenas, and others.

“A remarkable collection … Throughout these 18 stories, current and former residents of Havana—some well-known, some previously undiscovered—deliver gritty tales of depravation, depravity, heroic perseverance, revolution, and longing in a city mythical and widely misunderstood.”—Miami Herald

TRINIDAD NOIR

edited by Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason

340 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

Brand new stories by:Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Oonya Kempadoo, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, elisha efua bartels, Tiphanie Yanique, Willi Chen, and others.

“For sheer volume, few—anywhere—can beat [V.S.] Naipaul’s prodigious output. But on style, the writers in the Trinidadian canon can meet him eye to eye … Trinidad is no one-trick pony, literarily speaking.”—Coeditor Lisa Allen-Agostini in the New York Times

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Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I: CITY OF LIGHTS, CITY OF DARKNESS

MARC VILLARD : Les Halles

The Chauffeur

CHANTAL PELLETIER : Ménilmontant

The

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