Los Angeles Noir (Akashic Noir Book 1)

Brand-new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, Scott Phillips, Diana Wagman, Lienna Silver, Brian Ascalon Roley, and Denise Hamilton. Denise Hamilton writes the Eve Diamond series. Her books have been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony, and Willa Cather awards. The Los Angeles Times named Last Lullaby a Best Book of 2004, and it was also a USA Today Summer Pick and a finalist for a Southern California Booksellers Association 2004 award. Her fourth Eve Diamond novel, Savage Garden, is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Southern California Booksellers Association award for Best Mystery of 2005. Launched by 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 within the city of the book. Brand new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, Emory Holmes II, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, Scott Phillips, Diana Wagman, Lienna Silver, Brian Ascalon Roley, and Denise Hamilton. Los Angeles is the birthplace of Noir. Maybe it's the overwhelming shadow cast by Hollywood, the blur of artifice and reality, the possibility of shucking off the past like last year's dress and reinventing yourself beyond your wildest dreams. Maybe it's the desperation that descends when the dream goes sour, the duplicity behind the stunning beauty, the rot of the jungle flowers, the rip tides that carry off the unwary. Writers like James Cain, Nathanael West and Raymond Chandler understood both the?hope and the horror that Los Angeles inspired, and harnessed this duality to create their masterpieces. With Los Angeles Noir, we've brought you the ethos of Chandler and Cain filtered through a 21st-century, multicultural lens. This is a literary travelogue from the Chinese mansions of San Marino to the day spas of Koreatown to the windy hills of Mullholland Drive, the baby gangsters of East Hollywood, the OG entrepreneur of Leimert Park, the old money of Beverly Hills, and the working class?of Mar Vista. Los Angeles Noir brings you tales of crime and passion and betrayal from some of the most innovative and celebrated writers working today Brand new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, Emory Holmes II, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, Scott Phillips, Diana Wagman, Lienna Silver, Brian Ascalon Roley, and Denise Hamilton.Los Angeles is the birthplace of Noir, and with Los Angeles Noir, we've brought you the ethos of Chandler and Cain filtered through a 21st-century, multicultural lens. This is a literary travelogue from the Chinese mansions of San Marino to the day spas of Koreatown to the windy hills of Mullholland Drive, the baby gangsters of East Hollywood, the OG entrepreneur of Leimert Park, the old money of Beverly Hills, and the working class of Mar Vista. Los Angeles Noir brings you tales of crime and passion and betrayal from some of the most innovative and celebrated writers working today. A Collection Of Crime Stories That Take Place In Los Angeles. Part I, Police & Thieves. Mulholland Dive / Michael Connelly -- Number 19 / Naomi Hirahara -- Dangerous Days / Emory Holmes Ii -- Midnight In Silicon Valley / Denise Hamilton -- Part Ii, Hollywoodlandia. The Method / Janet Fitch -- Morocco Junction 90210 / Patt Morrison -- Over Thirty / Christopher Rice -- Once More, Lazarus / Héctor Tobar -- Part Iii, East Of La Cienega. The Golden Gopher / Susan Straight -- The Kidnapper Bell / Jim Pascoe -- City Of Commerce / Neal Pollack -- Fish / Lienna Silver -- Roger Crumbler Considered His Shave / Gary Phillips -- Part Iv, The Gold Coast. The Girl Who Kissed Barnaby Jones / Scott Phillips -- Kinship / Brian Ascalon Roley -- The Hour When The Ship Comes In / Robert Ferrigno -- What You See / Diana Wagman. Edited By Denise Hamilton. 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 Winner 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: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Héctor Tobar, Patt Morrison, Emory Holmes II, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, Neal Pollack, Scott Phillips, Diana Wagman, Lienna Silver, Brian Ascalon Roley, and Denise Hamilton.