Noir | Noir
Jun.17.2008
A super-charged story full of bad guys, a lot badder guys (among them rogue Feds, Russian and Albanian mobsters and locally-grown mafiosi) and a not-that-bad bad guy you can come to love and root for. Jerry Lang, by name.
Lang, a thief practically from when he was a toddler, usually...
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Apr.14.2008
What does an action movie one-hit-wonder and ex-drug-addict do when he's cleaned up, down on his luck, and running out of money? In the three years since Jack Palms went clean-no drugs, no drinking, no life-he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can...
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Feb.26.2008
From the New York Times review:
LIVING SHADOWS (Prime, paper, $14.95), is subtitled “Stories: New and Preowned” because much of it has been previously published: some stories in earlier, out-of-print Shirley collections, others in small-press anthologies and obscure magazines. It’s a greatest-...
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Feb.25.2008
Collection of noir crime stories edited by Ken Bruen and set in Dublin, Ireland. Contributors include Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Laura Lippman, Craig McDonald, Olen Steinhauer, Peter Spiegelman, Kevin Wignall, Jim Fusilli, John Rickards, Patrick J. Lambe, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, James O. Born,...
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Feb.02.2008
Peter McKrall is at a crossroads—out of work, fighting a klepto habit, and trying to figure out his next move. Life takes an unexpected turn when a search for his niece’s stuffed dog leads him to something else entirely: a bullet-riddled corpse. Talking to reporters lands Peter on the local news,...
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Jan.15.2008
Edited by by John C. Hocking (Editor), E. J. Olson (Editor) From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of those risking everything to the desperation of those with nothing left to lose, Detroit Noir delivers unforgettable tales that...
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Dec.27.2007
The city of Chicago has spent much time and money over the last decade marketing itself as a tourist-friendly place for the whole family. It’s got a shiny new Millennium Park, a spaceship in the middle of Soldier Field, and thousands of identical faux-brick condo buildings that seem to spring from...
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Dec.21.2007
This is the definitive biography of one of America's most important, most fascinating and most enigmatic twentieth-century writers. It is the first and only book on Hammett written with the full cooperation of his longtime friend Lillian Hellman, Hammett's late wife Josephine and his daughters....
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Dec.21.2007
Gifford (Wild at Heart) never shies away from confrontational fiction even when it strains credulity. Yet these four well-wrought, linked novellas, all dealing with struggle and violence—particularly violence toward women—and all set in dark corners of the South, all have the stamp of truth. Big...
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Dec.21.2007
It’s time to check in again with Barry Gifford’s gang of New Orleans weirdos. A few of our old favorites from Night People (1992) are back, including Marble Lesson, the lethal leader of the Mary Mother of God Rape Crisis Center, but there are also plenty of new, equally bizarre faces: We’ve got...
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