George Pelecanos (38 page)

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

BROOKLYN NOIR 2: THE CLASSICS

edited
by Tim McLoughlin

309
pages, trade paperback, $15.95

Brooklyn
Noi is back with a vengeance, this time with masters of yore mixing with the
young blood: H.P. Lovecraft, Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Pete Hamill,
Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Irwin Shaw, Carolyn Wheat, Thomas Wolfe,
Hubert Selby, Stanley Ellin, Gilbert Sorrentino, Maggie Estep, and Salvatore La
Puma.

CHICAGO NOIR

edited
by Neal Pollack

252
pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95

Chicago
Noi is populated by hired killers and jazzmen, drunks and dreamers, corrupt
cops and ticket scalpers and junkies. It's the Chicago that the Department of
Tourism doesn't want you to see, a place where hard cases face their sad fates,
and pay for their sins in blood. This isn't someone's dream of Chicago. It's
not even a nightmare. It's just the real city, unfiltered. Chicago Noir

Brand
new stories by: Neal Pollack, Achy Obejas, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Adam
Langer, Joe Meno, Peter Orner, Kevin Guilfoile, Bayo Ojikutu, Jeff Allen,
Luciano Guerriero, Claire Zulkey, Andrew Ervin, M.K. Meyers, Todd Dills, C.J.
Sullivan, Daniel Buckman, Amy Sayre-Roberts, and Jim Arndorfer.

BALTIMORE NOIR

edited
by Laura Lippman

252
pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95

Brand
new stories by: David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert
Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph
Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim
Fusilli, and Ben Neihart.

LAURA
LIPPMAN has lived in Baltimore most of her life and she would have spent even
more time there if the editors of the Sun had agreed to hire her earlier. She
attended public schools and has lived in several of the city's distinctive
neighborhoods, including Dickeyville, Tuscanyand Canterbury, Evergreen, and
South Federal Hill.

SAN FRANCISCO NOIR

edited
by Peter Maravelis

252
pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95

Brand
new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer
Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro
Murguia, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim
Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry.

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DUBLIN NOIR

The
Celtic Tiger vs.
The
Ugly American

edited
by Ken Bruen

228
pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95

Brand
new stories by: Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Jason Starr, Laura Lippman, Olen
Steinhauer, Peter Spiegelman, Kevin Wignall, Jim Fusilli, John Rickards,
Patrick J. Lambe, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, James O. Born, Sarah Weinman, Pat
Mullan, Reed Farrel Coleman, Gary Phillips, Duane Swierczynski, and Craig
McDonald.

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