145 results on '"NOIR fiction"'
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2. Introduction: A Kaleidoscope of Cultures and Works.
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Reitz, Caroline
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KALEIDOSCOPES ,NOIR fiction ,MYSTERY fiction ,SUSPENSE fiction ,YOUNG adult fiction - Abstract
The executive editor of Clues provides an overview of the issue, including articles on John Dickson Carr; Agatha Christie; Arthur Conan Doyle in Dutch translation; Umberto Eco; a YA mystery series featuring Indigenous issues; island mysteries; Korean crime fiction; and noir's relationship with works by William Faulkner, David Goodis, and John D. MacDonald. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
3. Victorian Noir: Cornell Woolrich's Waltz into Darkness.
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Snyder, Robert Lance
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NOIR fiction , *19TH century English literature , *MYSTERY fiction - Abstract
In the article, the author discusses terminal naturalism and the depiction of Victorian noir in literature by analyzing the novel "Waltz into Darkness" by American pulp writer Cornell Woolrich. Also cited are a comparison of the novel with Woolrich's other works like "The Bride Wore Black" and "I Married a Dead Man," and the novels' topics like human desires, murder, and cosmic determinism.
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- 2023
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4. Dark Borealism: Why Arctic Noir is the New Black.
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Toudoire-Surlapierre, Frédérique
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EXOTICISM in literature ,NOIR fiction ,SCANDINAVIAN literature ,GENERICALNESS (Linguistics) ,MYSTERY fiction - Abstract
The joint success of the stories of explorers in the Far North and the crime story, or Nordic Noir, gave rise to a new form of borealism that this article proposes to call Dark Borealism. The article explains what is black in Nordic Noir, and, more precisely, in Arctic Noir and aims to identify the modalities, functions and issues of this generic hybridization in examples of Nordic crime fiction by Peter Høeg and Monica Kristensen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. A Gnostic Noir: Y.B.'s Explication of the Algerian Crisis.
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Agar, Trudy
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NOIR fiction , *HISTORY of Islam , *AUTOBIOGRAPHY , *MYSTERY fiction , *CRIMINAL investigation , *POSTCOLONIAL literature - Abstract
The Algerian writer Y.B. (Yassir Benmiloud) originally established himself as a satirical journalist and critic of the Algerian regime before publishing his first novel, L'Explication , from exile in Paris in 1999. Although it was met with a relative lack of critical attention, reserved more for his third novel Allah Superstar (2003), which examines the place of Muslims in post 9/11 France, L'Explication is a dynamic reimagining of noir that "others" the classically Western genre. While respecting many of the tropes of detective and noir fiction, including the gradual unveiling of the criminals and their motives for murder, an investigator-focused narrative, temporal doubling, and sassy one-liners, L'Explication deviates from reader expectations with its autobiographical elements, hybridity, and its refusal to provide a rational resolution to the investigation. The novel is imbued with a Sufi mystical structure and ideology that exist uncomfortably alongside, and call into question, French rationalism, the underpinning of a classical detective story. Y.B.'s criminal investigation proceeds along unexpected lines to become an esoteric interpretation of the history of Islam in North Africa and the rise of Algeria's cabinet noir during the 1990s civil war. This article will show that L'Explication is at once a detective novel and a parody of both that genre and of Islamic exegesis. The parodic elements allow Y.B. to circumvent censure, while offering an indirect means of giving voice to national trauma as he endeavors to explain the seemingly inexplicable Algerian civil war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Geographies of Memory: Paula Hawkins's Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning.
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Snyder, Robert Lance
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MYSTERY fiction , *NOIR fiction , *MNEMONICS - Abstract
Quadrupling the number of unreliable narrators employed in her worldwide bestseller The Girl on the Train (2015), Paula Hawkins's second novel titled Into the Water (2017) continues her exploration of the convoluted geographies of memory associated with women's mystery-shrouded deaths. A Slow Fire Burning (2021) extends this domestic-noir theme while connecting it intratextually to an experimental crime novel written by one of the male characters. In both of these recent works employing narratological montage, Hawkins cunningly draws attention to what might be called the mnemonics of fiction—that is, of the stories we tell ourselves and others. Her post-postmodernist tales, however, take the idea of truth seriously, even if it is one shorn of the premise of logocentrism and ultimacy. In the process she seems devoted to plumbing the intricacies of William Faulkner's conundrum in Light in August (1932): "Memory believes before knowing remembers". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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7. Delteil's Les Écœurés: Gilets Jaunes and the Limits of the Noir.
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Goulet, Andrea, Lee, Susanna, Singh, Lisa, and Sobanet, Andrew
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SOCIOECONOMICS , *NOIR fiction , *MYSTERY fiction , *CAPITALISM , *SOCIAL change , *SOCIAL media - Abstract
This article is an interdisciplinary study of Gérard Delteil's Les Écœurés, a 2019 novel that was marketed as a "le premier polar en Gilet Jaune." In this essay, we explore the generic tensions that arise when murder mystery intersects with socioeconomic criticism in our age of advanced capitalism. We argue that Les Écœurés functions differently when read through a sociological prism than it does as a noir or polar. We demonstrate that analysis of social media data shows that Delteil captures quite well and to a large extent reproduces the concerns of the Gilets Jaunes movement, while at the same time showcasing the dispiriting durability of a corrupt establishment. Second, on the level of character, we maintain that in presenting a drably failed bildungsroman, the novel undercuts the importance of any individual agency or élan. And third, we argue that on the level of genre, the text—by sidelining its own murder mystery—raises questions about the force and relevance of crime fiction as a potential agent of social change. Ultimately, we maintain that the very failures in and of Les Écœurés point metatextually to the novel's position as an artifact of the period and as embodiment of the Gilets Jaunes movement's likely fate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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8. Refashioning Noir: Do Dead Girls Still Live in L.A.?
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Ingram, Susan
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MYSTERY fiction , *NOIR fiction , *ART museums , *FASHION photography - Abstract
This article compares two works picked by celebrity book clubs in the summer of 2018 for their dissection of mainstream America's ongoing obsession with the violence inflicted on beautiful young bodies of those who identify as female: Alice Bolin's essay collection Dead Girls and Maria Hummel's mystery Still Lives. In reading them together with Melanie Pullen's High Fashion Crime Scenes (2003–2017), a series of monumental, five-feet-by-six-feet photographs in which well-known actresses and models dressed in haute couture were staged as murder victims in elaborately designed settings mostly in and around Los Angeles; Rosi Braidotti's accounting of the two competing notions of life, bios and zoe, and how they coincide on gendered human bodies; and W.J.T. Mitchell's understanding of images' uncanny ability to live on and to animate bodies, my analyses consider the way different forms of artistic representation emerging in Los Angeles work for and against the biopolitical control of objectified, gendered life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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9. The Good Turn
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Dervla McTiernan and Dervla McTiernan
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Thrillers (Fiction), Mystery fiction, Police corruption--Fiction
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The Good Turn is the highly anticipated third book in the Cormac Reilly Series, which began with the acclaimed The Ruin and The Scholar.Winner of the 2022 Barry Award for Best Original PaperbackSome lines should never be crossed.Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy, and the mystery of a little girl's silence—three unconnected events that will prove to be linked by one small town.While Detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personal life, Garda Peter Fisher is relocated out of Galway with the threat of prosecution hanging over his head. But even that is not as terrible as having to work for his overbearing father, the local copper for the pretty seaside town of Roundstone.For some, like Anna and her young daughter, Tilly, Roundstone is a refuge from trauma. But even this village on the edge of the sea isn't far enough to escape from the shadows of evil men.
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- 2021
10. Just Thieves
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Gregory Galloway and Gregory Galloway
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- Thrillers (Fiction), Novels, Fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Mystery fiction
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A CrimeReads'Best Noir Novel of 2021''A sucker punch noir that is also a powerful and haunting allegory of work, debt, and power.'—Richard Price'An unreliable narrator makes this thriller all the more gripping.'— WBUR A down and dirty gem of a tale—a twisty and twisted crime novel that evokes the worlds of George V. Higgins, Patricia Highsmith, and David Mamet, destined to be a Neo-noir classic. Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves. They do not steal randomly - - they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they're tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates interest and obsession out of proportion to its apparent value. Just as the robbery is completed, the two are involved in a freak car accident that sets off a chain of events and Frank disappears with the trophy. As Rick tries to find Frank, he is forced to confront his past, upending both his livelihood and his sense of reality. The narrative builds steadily into a powerful and shocking climax. Reveling in its con-artistry and double-crosses, Just Thieves is a nail-biting, noirish exploration of the working lives of two unforgettable crooks and the hidden forces that rule and ruin their lives.
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- 2021
11. Worse Angels
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Laird Barron and Laird Barron
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- Noir fiction, Suspense fiction, Mystery fiction
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Ex-mob enforcer-turned-private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions.Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S. senator, Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly on his way to either a jail cell or a grave, depending on who finds him first. In his final days as a free man, he hires Isaiah Coleridge to tie up a loose end: the suspicious death of his nephew four years earlier. At the time police declared it an accident, and Adeyemi isn't sure it wasn't, but one final look may bring his sister peace.So it is that Coleridge and his investigative partner, Lionel Robard, find themselves in the upper reaches of New York State, in a tiny town that is home to outsized secrets and an unnerving cabal of locals who are protecting them. At the epicenter of it all is the site of a stalled supercollider project, an immense subterranean construction that may have an even deeper, more insidious purpose....
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- 2020
12. The Darkest Hearts
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Nelson George and Nelson George
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- Urban fiction, Thrillers (Fiction), Novels, Noir fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Suspense fiction
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A P.I.-turned-talent manger's new client leads him into dangerous territory in this hard-boiled novel by the author of To Funk and Die in L.A.Former bodyguard D Hunter has moved to Los Angeles to become a talent manager, and business is good. He has signed a hot Atlanta rapper named Lil Daye and negotiated a lucrative endorsement with a liquor band. However, the liquor CEO's unsavory sexual habits and reactionary political views lead D to wonder if he's sold his soul.Back in Brooklyn, a body has been found in the waters near the Canarsie Pier. It connects D and retired hit man Ice to incidents from back in The Plot Against Hip Hop, the second book in the series. Now, an FBI agent wants to speak to D, which makes Ice nervous. And Ice is not a man you want worrying about you.Meanwhile Serene Powers, a vigilante and D's sometime collaborator, breaks up a human trafficking ring in London. When she returns to the States, D asks her for assistance with a sensitive and volatile matter in Atlanta involving Lil Daye, his wife, his mistress, and a thug on his payroll named Ant... The Darkest Hearts reflects the challenges of being a Black businessperson in an era when the rules of entrepreneurship are constantly shifting beneath an increasingly polarized political environment.Praise for The Darkest Hearts“Once again, my brother Nelson George comes through in the clutch like he's batting clean-up. I've known Nelson over thirty years and he has been our cultural storyteller for that length of time. Keep telling. Keep writing our stories. I know I will keep reading them too.” —Spike Lee, filmmaker“George's passion for, and encyclopedic knowledge of, hip-hop suffuses every word of this smart, stylish novel. Although the author deftly deals with issues of predatory capitalism, government corruption, and the senseless murder of Black men by America's cops, it's his handling of the tale's sex trafficking and #MeToo subplots that deserves special acclaim.” —Mystery Scene Magazine“Smart... This action-packed crime novel both educates and entertains.” —Publishers Weekly“We're big fans of music mysteries here at CrimeReads, so I'm psyched for the new Nelson George... A complex mystery that should serve as the perfect quarantine distraction.” —CrimeReads, One of CrimeReads'10 Novels You Should Read This August andOne of the Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020“This dark, rollicking mystery is the fifth in George's D Hunter series... D's point of view, his self-confessed vulnerability, and his deep appreciation for music, from R&B on, make this thoroughly satisfying reading.” —Booklist
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- 2020
13. Double Feature
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Donald E. Westlake and Donald E. Westlake
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- Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Thrillers (Fiction), Mystery fiction, Murder--Fiction, Adultery--Fiction
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THE MOVIE STAR AND THE MOVIE CRITIC — HOW FAR WOULD THEY GO TO KEEP THEIR SECRETS BURIED? DOUBLE FEATURE Contains two CLASSIC Donald E. Westlake novellas, A Travesty and Ordo WHAT'S HIDDEN BEHIND THE SILVER SCREEN? In New York City, a movie critic has just murdered his girlfriend – well, one of his girlfriends (not to be confused with his wife). Will the unlikely crime-solving partnership he forms with the investigating police detective keep him from the film noir ending he deserves? On the opposite coast, movie star Dawn Devayne – the hottest It Girl in Hollywood – gets a visit from a Navy sailor who says he knew her when she was just ordinary Estelle Anlic of San Diego. Now she's a big star who's put her past behind her. But secrets have a way of not staying buried… These two short novels, one hilarious and one heartbreaking, are two of the best works Westlake ever wrote. And fittingly, both became movies – one starring Jack Ryan's Marie Josée Croze, and one starring Fargo's William H. Macy and Desperate Housewives'Felicity Huffman. A book by this guy is cause for happiness - Stephen King
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- 2020
14. Dangerous Femininity: Looking into the Portrayal of Daphne Monet as a Femme Fatale in Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress.
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Chakravarty, Prerana
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NOIR fiction ,MYSTERY fiction ,FICTION genres ,AMERICAN fiction ,FILM noir - Abstract
The phrase "femme fatale" is a well-known figure in the literary and cultural representations of women. Associated with evil temptation, the femme fatale is an iconic figure that has been appropriated into folklore, literature, and mythology. In the twentieth century, the figure finds space in literary and cinematic endeavours, particularly in crime fiction and noir thrillers. The progenitors of the hard-boiled genre of detective fiction popularised the figure of a sexually seductive and promiscuous woman who betrays men for material gain. Walter Mosley, an African American detective fiction writer, adapted the hard-boiled formula popularised by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but altered it to address socio-political issues concerning the condition of African Americans in the post-World War II era. Mosley followed Chandler's lead in weaving a quest narrative around femme fatale Daphne Monet in his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress (1990). The purpose of this paper is to look at Mosley's treatment of the femme fatale figure in this novel. The methodology employed is a close analysis of the text, as well as an analysis of the figure of the femme fatale in its function as catalyst for men's behaviour. The purpose of this study is to examine how the femme fatale was created, specifically what elements contributed to Daphne Monet's transformation into a femme fatale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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15. Hope Rides Again : An Obama Biden Mystery
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Andrew Shaffer and Andrew Shaffer
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, Humorous fiction, Theft--Fiction, Conspiracies--Fiction, Conspiracies
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In the sequel to the New York Times best-selling novel Hope Never Dies, Obama and Biden reprise their roles as BFFs-turned-detectives as they chase Obama's stolen cell phone through the streets of Chicago—and right into a vast conspiracy.Following a long but successful book tour, Joe Biden has one more stop before he can return home: Chicago. His old pal Barack Obama has invited him to meet a wealthy benefactor whose endorsement could turn the tide for Joe if he decides to run for president.The two friends barely have time to catch up before another mystery lands in their laps: Obama's prized Blackberry is stolen. When their number-one suspect winds up full of lead on the South Side, the police are content to write it off as just another gangland shooting. But Joe and Obama smell a rat...Set against the backdrop of a raucous city on St. Patrick's Day, Joe and Obama race to find the shooter, only to uncover a vast conspiracy that goes deeper than the waters of Lake Michigan—which is exactly where they'll spend the rest of their retirement if they're not careful.
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- 2019
16. Cutting Edge : New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
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Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Valerie Martin, Bernice L. McFadden, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Valerie Martin, Bernice L. McFadden, and Joyce Carol Oates
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Short stories, Mystery fiction, Poetry, Detective and mystery stories--Women authors, Noir fiction, Noir poetry, Detective and mystery stories
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A chilling noir collection featuring fifteen crime and mystery tales and six poems from female authors.Joyce Carol Oates, a queen-pin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy readers who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society. This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more.With stories by: Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood (poems), Valerie Martin, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Sheila Kohler, S.A. Solomon, S.J. Rozan, Lucy Taylor, Cassandra Khaw, Bernice L. McFadden, Jennifer Morales, Elizabeth McCracken, Livia Llewellyn, Lisa Lim, and Steph Cha.Praise for Cutting Edge“The indefatigable Joyce Carol Oates gathers a strong list of names.... Emerging and established authors provide attention-grabbing short works: especially notable are Edwidge Danticat's story on the quotidian horror of domestic violence, Bernice L. McFadden's comic take on the appropriation of racial friendship, and Lisa Lim's illustrations of a grotesque marriage.” —Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine“But of course, in the end, it isn't the themes or the innovations on the format of the short story anthology that make the tales collected in Cutting Edge most “feel” as if you were reading Joyce Carol Oates herself. It is the writing. The tight plots and fresh, flowing prose that go about their business until—snap!—the story's well-oiled mousetrap does its job.” —New York Journal of Books“The 15 stories and six poems in this slim yet weighty all-original noir anthology... are razor-sharp and relentless in their portrayal of life, offering snapshots of dysfunction, everyday toil, and brief joy. It is unusual, however, in its scope, zeroing in not only on what the female characters endure but what they dish out.... Each story sears but does not cauterize, leaving protagonists and readers raw.... Fans of contemporary crime fiction won't want to miss this one.” —Publishers Weekly
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- 2019
17. Mike Hammer: Murder, My Love : A Mike Hammer Novel
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Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, and Mickey Spillane
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- Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Suspense fiction, Noir fiction, Thrillers (Fiction), Private investigators--New York (State)--New Y, Legislators--United States--Fiction
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Pulp crime fiction is at its best in this Mike Hammer novel that sees the hard-boiled private eye unpack a scandal involving a US Senator and his femme fatale of a wifeHammer is summoned to a meeting with Jamie Winters, a United States Senator from New York, and Jamie's lovely, very smart wife, Nicole—considered by many to be the power behind the throne. Winters is being blackmailed, and Hammer is given a list of suspects who may be behind the threats to the Senator's career. But when the suspects begin to drop like flies, Hammer realizes there is more to this case than just a salacious tape.
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- 2019
18. Entropic Disintegration: Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, and A Hell of a Woman.
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NOIR fiction , *MYSTERY fiction - Abstract
The article presents a literary criticism of the noir crime fiction novels "The Killer Inside Me," "Savage Night," and "A Hell of a Woman," all by Jim Thompson. The author explores how each work presents entropic disintegration, examines their fostering of a postwar paranoia of otherness, and discusses the relation to the onslaught of serial killers of the 1970s.
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- 2021
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19. Humour in the Midst of Darkness: An interview with noir writer Ken Bruen.
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Murphy, Paula
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FILM adaptations ,WIT & humor ,NOIR fiction ,MYSTERY fiction - Published
- 2021
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20. Marrakech Noir
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Fouad Laroui, Allal Bourqia, Abdelkader Benali, Yassin Adnan, Fouad Laroui, Allal Bourqia, Abdelkader Benali, and Yassin Adnan
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Short stories, Mystery fiction
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This unique anthology of crime fiction features 15 original stories of “scandals, smugglers, and other sordid tales” by award-winning Moroccan authors (CrimeReads). At first glance, Marrakech may seem like an odd setting for noir fiction. Contemporary Moroccans call it The Joyful City—a place where locals are happy to joke about gossip and quick to forget stories of crime. But in Marrakech Noir, some of Morocco's finest authors address old wrong that have been kept hidden behind the city's ancient gates, and spin contemporary tales of poverty, grift, and violence in this global tourist destination. Marrakech Noir features brand-new stories by Fouad Laroui, Allal Bourqia, Abdelkader Benali, Mohamed Zouhair, Mohamed Achaari, Hanane Derkaoui, Fatiha Morchid, Mahi Binebine, Mohamed Nedali, Halima Zine El Abidine, My Seddik Rabbaj, Yassin Adnan, Karima Nadir, Taha Adnan, and Lahcen Bakour.
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- 2018
21. So Many Doors
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Oakley Hall and Oakley Hall
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- Novels, Noir fiction, Fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Mystery fiction, Trials (Murder)--California--San Diego--Fict, Prisoners--Fiction
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The legendary lost crime novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Oakley Hall, instructor of Ann Rice, Amy Tan, Richard Ford, and Michael Chabon, who calls SO MANY DOORS'Beautiful, powerful, even masterful.'It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered - Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling'cat skinners'of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to tame the American West. And the story that unfolds, in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Oakley Hall, is a lyrical outpouring of hunger and grief, of jealousy and corruption, of raw sexual yearning and the tragedy of the destroyed lives it leaves in its wake. Unpublished for more than half a century, So Many Doors is Hall's masterpiece, an excoriating vision of human nature at its most brutal, and one of the most powerful books you will ever read.
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- 2018
22. Prague Noir
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Martin Goffa, Štepán Kopriva, Pavel Mandys, Martin Goffa, Štepán Kopriva, and Pavel Mandys
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Short stories, Translations, Mystery fiction
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This “varied and polished” anthology of original noir fiction introduces a new wave of Czech authors to English-speaking audiences (Publishers Weekly).It can be difficult to imagine noir fiction emerging in a city like Prague, where the profession of private detective didn't even exist prior to 1990. Before the Velvet Revolution, the only serious criminal organization was the secret police. Yet, with its complex and often tragic history, the home of Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera offers a uniquely rich setting for stories of menace, danger, and secrecy; tales of individuals driven to break the law in the face of a desperate situation. In this “superior entry in Akashic's noir series,” fourteen contemporary Czech authors introduce themselves—and their world—to an international audience (Publishers Weekly).Prague Noir includes brand-new stories by Martin Goffa, Štěpán Kopřiva, Miloš Urban, Jiří W. Procházka, Chaim Cigan, Ondřej Neff, Petr Stančík, Kateřina Tučková, Markéta Pilátová, Michal Sýkora, Michaela Klevisová, Petra Soukupová, Irena Hejdová, and Petr Šabach.
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- 2018
23. Night Dogs
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Kent Anderson and Kent Anderson
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, Vietnam War (1961-1975), Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Fiction, Post-traumatic stress disorder--Fiction
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Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's'fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing'police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there for punishment, and those who come for the action. Officer Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to decide he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson knows war, and in this battle for the Portland streets, he fights not for the law but for his own code of justice.Yet Hanson can't outrun his memories of another, warmer battleground. A past he thought he'd left behind, that now threatens to overshadow his future. An enemy, this time close to home, is prying into his war record. Pulling down the shields that protect the darkest moments of that fevered time. Until another piece of his past surfaces, and Hanson risks his career, his sanity--even his life--for honor.
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- 2018
24. Bluebird, Bluebird
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Attica Locke and Attica Locke
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Suspense fiction, Mystery fiction, Thrillers (Fiction), Texas Rangers--Fiction
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A'heartbreakingly resonant'thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today).'In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it.'-Ann Patchett When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders -- a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman -- have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes -- and save himself in the process -- before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.
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- 2017
25. The Painted Gun
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Bradley Spinelli and Bradley Spinelli
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION / Noir
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2018 Shamus Award Finalist: A “tricky and delightfully surprising crime novel” set at the dawn of the digital age in San Francisco (Publishers Weekly).It's 1997, and the dotcom boom is going strong in San Francisco. But ex-journalist and struggling alcoholic David “Itchy” Crane's fledgling “information consultancy” business is getting slowly buried by bad luck, bad decisions, and the growing presence of the Internet. Before he can completely self-destruct, a private investigator offers him fifty grand to find a missing girl named Ashley. Crane takes the job because the money's right and because the only clue to her disappearance is a dead-on oil portrait of Crane himself—painted by the mysterious missing girl whom he has never met.As Crane's search for Ashley becomes an obsession, he stumbles upon a series of murders, for which he begins to fear he's being framed...“Spinelli deftly segues from one genre to another—from hard-boiled noir to paranoid thriller, puzzle mystery (with each and every riddle logically explained), spy caper, and ultimately to something evocative of Bogart and Bacall. Spinelli is definitely a talent to watch.”—Publishers Weekly“A neat little post-modern mash-up of Chandler and Hammett...[Spinelli's] got wit and style up the wazoo.”—Thrilling Detective “The Painted Gun is hardboiled like they don't make anymore. Whiplash twists, razor-sharp prose, an addictive narrative—I couldn't read it fast enough.”—Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse
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- 2017
26. Montana Noir
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James Grady, Keir Graff, James Grady, and Keir Graff
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Short stories, Western stories, Mystery fiction, Western fiction
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“Thoroughly entertaining... from desperate writing students in Missoula to a van of itinerant strippers working the Hi-Line paralleling the Canadian border.” —Publishers Weekly A Parade Magazine “Books We Love” Pick The Big Sky State may seem to lack the shadowy urban mazes traditional to the noir genre. But in Montana, darkness is found in the regions of the heart, driving the desperate and deadly to commit the most heinous of crimes. Here, James Grady and Keir Graff, both Montana natives, masterfully curate this collection of hard-edged Western tales. Montana Noir includes Eric Heidle's “Ace in the Hole,” an Edgar Award nominee for Best Short Story, and impressive contributions by David Abrams, Caroline Patterson, Thomas McGuane, Janet Skeslien Charles, Sidner Larson, Yvonne Seng, James Grady, Jamie Ford, Carrie La Seur, Walter Kirn, Gwen Florio, Debra Magpie Earling, and Keir Graff. “Terrific... Montana Noir is one of the high points in Akashic's long-running and justly celebrated Noir series... varying landscapes reflect the darkness within the people who walk the streets or drive the country roads.” —Booklist “Montana may not have the back alleys so common to noir but it has western justice which can be quick, brutal and final and that is as satisfying as anything found in the urban streets that typically attract the dark beauty of the noir genre.” —New York Journal of Books “Certain noir standbys prove both malleable and fertile in these 14 new stories... If Montana has a dark side, is anywhere safe from noir?” —Kirkus Reviews
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- 2017
27. Trinidad Noir : The Classics
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Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni, Earl Lovelace, and Robert Antoni
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Short stories, Mystery fiction
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“To travel through the 19 works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Two of Trinidad's top writers masterfully curate this literary retrospective of the nation's best writing over the past century from authors who were largely part of the literary wave that swept in with Trinidadian Independence in 1962. Though Trinidad Noir: The Classics encompasses a variety of moods and themes, it winds up capturing the uniquely Trinidadian character. Influenced by the waning days of the colonial world—an era rife with crime, violence, enslavement, and indentureship—the selections highlight the often heroic individuals of the underclass. In this anthology, you'll find reprints of classic stories and poems by C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Samuel Selvon, Eric Roach, V.S. Naipaul, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Michael Anthony, Willi Chen, Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Ismith Khan, Lawrence Scott, Wayne Brown, Jennifer Rahim, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Sharon Millar, Barbara Jenkins, and Shani Mootoo. “Lovelace and Antoni offer a ‘subversive'take on island culture... Whether history repeats itself or progress is stalled by people's infinite capacity to get in their own ways, these 19 reprinted tales offer a bittersweet perspective on the cussedness of human nature.” —Kirkus Reviews “Holds strong appeal for fans of noir and literary writing.” —Library Journal
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- 2017
28. The Executioner Weeps
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Frédéric Dard and Frédéric Dard
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- Fiction, Noir fiction, Suspense fiction, Mystery fiction, Thrillers (Fiction), Murder--Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Murder
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WINNER OF THE 1957 GRAND PRIX DE LA LITTÉRATURE POLICIÉRE It was fate that led her to step out in front of the car. A quiet mountain road. A crushed violin. And a beautiful woman lying motionless in the ditch. Carrying her back to his lodging on a beach near Barcelona, Daniel discovers that the woman is still alive but that she remembers nothing - not even her own name. And soon he has fallen for her mysterious allure. She is a blank canvas, a perfect muse, and his alone. But when Daniel travels to France in search of her past, he slips into a tangled vortex of lies, depravity and murder. The Executioner Weeps is a macabre thriller about the dangerous pitfalls of love. Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote more than three hundred thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays, under a variety of noms de plume, throughout his long and illustrious career. Dard's Bird in a Cage, The Wicked Go to Hell, Crush, The Gravediggers'Bread and The King of Fools are also available or forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo.
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- 2017
29. Why Women Turn to Crime.
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Shute, Carmel
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WOMEN'S societies & clubs , *WOMEN authors , *MYSTERY fiction , *NOIR fiction , *LITERARY form - Abstract
The auto reflects on the progress of the Women in Crime organisation since its launch in 1991 in Melbourne, Victoria and the reasons behind women writer's turn to crime novels over the past three decades. Topics discussed are origins of Sisters in Crime Australia and its partnership with various literary events and institutions, the popularity of women domestic noir in Australia, and crime fiction as a genre that allows writers to explore issues from different time periods.
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- 2021
30. South Village
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Rob Hart and Rob Hart
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Thillers (Fiction.), Fiction, Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, Private investigators--Fiction, Murder--Investigation--Fiction, De´tectives--Romans, nouvelles, etc
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Ash McKenna used to be an amateur P.I.emphasis on amateur'. Despite good intentions, he made a mess of his life in New York, so tried to build a new one in Portland. But after a traumatic turn of events, he ends up on a commune in the Georgia woods, binge-drinking cheap whiskey and waiting for his passport to flee the country and nightmares that have followed him.Then a man is found dead. Known only as Crusty Pete', the commune dweller is sprawled in the dirt, having fallen from a high rope bridge. It's written off as an accident, but Ash suspects something more sinister. As he looks into Pete's death, Ash is shocked to find the supposedly peaceful community houses a rogue faction preparing to commit an unspeakable act of violence.Ash has to make a choice: run, or put his skills to use and try to stop them. But he doesn't know who to trust, or where the faction is planning to strike. As he struggles to put a stop to the violence, while keeping his own demons at bay, Ash finds that it's only a matter of time before one or the other puts him down for good.
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- 2016
31. Rio Noir
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Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, M. V. Bill, Victoria Saramago, Adriana Lisboa, Arthur Dapieve, Arnaldo Bloch, Tony Bellotto, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, M. V. Bill, Victoria Saramago, Adriana Lisboa, Arthur Dapieve, Arnaldo Bloch, and Tony Bellotto
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- Fiction, Noir fiction, Translations, Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Brazilian--Translations into Engli, Detective and mystery stories, Brazilian--Transl
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Explore the darker side of the sunny Brazilian city in this gritty mystery anthology featuring fourteen tales by writers from the region.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 respect city. With Rio Noir, the Akashic Noir series delver for the first time into South America.With stories by: Tony Bellotto, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, MV Bill, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Guilherme Fiuza, Arthur Dapieve, Victoria Saramago, Arnaldo Bloch, Adriana Lisboa, Alexandre Fraga dos Santos, Marcelo Ferroni, Flávio Carneiro, Raphael Montes, and Luis Fernando Verissimo. All stories translated from Portuguese by Clifford Landers (Coelho's The Alchemist, etc.).Praise for Rio Noir“In the latest entry to this globetrotting series, a man goes for a tarot reading and winds up poisoned by the daughter he never knew he had. And that's just one story in a collection that takes us down the mysterious alleys and mazy favelas of Rio.” —O, the Oprah Magazine“A good introduction to writers of the region and to the dark side of a very sunny place.” —Booklist“A solid addition to Akashic's acclaimed noir series.” —Publishers Weekly
- Published
- 2016
32. Dirty in Cashmere : A Novel
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Peter Plate and Peter Plate
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- Dystopias, Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, Prophets--Fiction, Dystopias--Fiction, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Urban Life
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Ricky Bellamy is shot in the head by a vigilante at the corner of Geneva and Mission in San Francisco. He's declared brain-dead and hooked up to life support, but ten months later he emerges from his coma. The bullet stays lodged in his head—inoperable, the doctors say—but with it comes what Ricky calls “visions, a third eye.” Dirty in Cashmere follows Ricky through the recent past of San Francisco, a city dealing with the fall-out from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, after which massive contamination spread across the Pacific Ocean to California. He's set adrift in a world in which Life—the street name of an experimental radiation vaccine—is the currency by which both criminal enterprises and survival are won. As he squats in abandoned houses and brands himself as an “oracle” who can see the future, Ricky wonders whether there isn't a bigger picture out there, one that maybe he can't focus on or perhaps one that someone's hiding from him. And as his skills as an oracle are called upon by more powerful forces, it becomes clear that the one thing Ricky wants most to predict is the city's future—the mirror of his own destiny.
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- 2016
33. Fever City
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Tim Baker and Tim Baker
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, Kidnapping--Fiction, Private investigators--Fiction, Kidnapping, Private investigators
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“Puts a new twist on the Kennedy assassination... [a] remarkable first novel... delights in sex, hypocrisy and political conspiracy” (The Washington Post). If you took James Ellroy at his most imaginative and Oliver Stone at his most conspiratorial, and mixed them up in a supersized martini shaker, you would produce the vivid writing, explosive events, and irresistible entertainment of Fever City, a Shamus Award finalist. The story kicks off in 1960 Los Angeles, with the daring kidnapping of the child of one of America's richest men. It then darts back and forth between a private detective's urgent search for the child, the saga of a notorious hit man in the days leading to JFK's assassination, and the modern-day story of a skeptical journalist researching the still-active conspiracy theories of the 1950s and'60s, with the aim of debunking them. Just as the detective discovers that the kidnapping is a crime much larger than he imagined, and the hit man finds himself caught in a web that is astonishingly complex, the journalist discovers—to his horror, dismay, and even his jeopardy—that the conspiracy theories might well be true. “In this ambitious debut Baker gives us a bare-knuckle take on the president's murder and adds two other plotlines, connecting them solidly with the equivalent of a jab-jab-cross combination.” —The New York Times Book Review “Hits you like a cannonball... A turbo-charged, beautifully written noir, Fever City is one of those mind-blowingly ambitious debuts that only comes along once in a great while.” —Stav Sherez, author of Eleven Days
- Published
- 2016
34. The Halls of Power
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William C. Gordon and William C. Gordon
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- Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Reporters and reporting--California--San Franc
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Fifth in a series of noir mysteries featuring newspaper reporter Samuel Hamilton, The Halls of Power explores corruption at the top of the money chain in San Francisco in the early 1960s. The work teems with eccentric characters: hardboiled cops and immigrant workmen, prosperous businessmen, but especially the albino sage, Mr. Song, who brings a form of vigilante justice when the system stops working for the people of Chinatown.
- Published
- 2016
35. Beirut Noir
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Iman Humaydan and Iman Humaydan
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- Short stories, Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Arabic fiction--Lebanon--Translations into Eng, French fiction--Lebanon--Translations into Eng
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“Haunting” stories about crimes that are “often submerged in the greater tragedy of a beautiful city constantly torn within and without by violence” (Publishers Weekly). Beirut is a city both urban and rural, a city of violence and forgiveness, memory and forgetfulness, war and peace. This short story collection, rich with moody suspense, brings this Middle Eastern city and its troubled history to vivid life—revealing the vast maze of the city that can't be found in tourist brochures or hazy, nostalgic depictions of Beirut. Featuring brand-new stories by Rawi Hage, Mohamad Abi Samra, Leila Eid, Hala Kawtharani, Marie Tawk, Bana Baydoun, Hyam Yared, Najwa Barakat, Alawiyeh Sobh, Mazen Zahreddine, Abbas Beydoun, Bachir Hilal, Zena El Khalil, Mazen Maarouf, and Tarek Abi Samra. “The Lebanese authors featured in the collection draw from a much broader palette of Beirut life, and, true to the genre, they tap into their city's dark past and uncertain present. Some stories are absurd and humorous, but almost all are haunted in some way by a nagging memory, a war, a death.” —The National
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- 2015
36. Moronga, by Horacio Castellanos Moya, and the Divergence of Latin American Noir.
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Sellés, Carmen Luna
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VIOLENCE , *MYSTERY fiction , *NOIR fiction - Abstract
Taking Moronga (2018), by Salvadorian author Horacio Castellanos Moya, as a point of departure, this article focuses on the reinterpretation of mainstream crime fiction in Latin American terms. This new approach is made from both formal and thematic perspectives. Moronga is structurally fragmented; the traditional detective figure has disappeared, and the plot does not revolve around a single crime but denounces a society at large which is characterized by paranoid surveillance. The reinterpretation of the crime fiction genre in Latin American terms has opened up two different strands of noir: firstly, the so-called 'post-neopolicial' where crime is a mere backdrop to formal experimentation, and secondly, what Ricardo Piglia refers to as 'ficción paranoica' [paranoiac fiction]. Moronga is a good example of both these strands, making it an appropriate case study to analyse the ways in which Hispanic literature deviates from classic Anglophone crime fiction (particularly the North American hardboiled tradition). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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37. 'That Ever-Blurry Line Between Us and the Criminals': African Noir and the Ambiguity of Justice in Mũkoma Wa Ngũgĩ's Black Star Nairobi and Leye Adenle's When Trouble Sleeps.
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Naidu, Sam
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NOIR fiction , *POSTCOLONIALISM , *MYSTERY fiction , *AFRICAN detective & mystery stories , *FICTION - Abstract
This article, which focuses on African noir as a variety of neo-noir literature, begins by outlining the intertextual and intercultural relationships between classic noir and African noir. Thereafter, the postcolonial, postmodernist and transnational elements of African noir are described utilizing Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ's novel Black Star Nairobi (2013) and Leye Adenle's When Trouble Sleeps (2018) as exemplars. Arguing that African noir draws on various genres and discourses, the article demonstrates how issues of socio-political justice, ontological and existential dilemmas, aesthetic concerns and the epistemological quest are rendered as ambiguous and murky. Based on a close reading of Black Star Nairobi and When Trouble Sleeps , the article concludes that the predominant chiaroscuro effect of African noir is not so much a 'dark' sensibility as one of abstruseness and poignant Afro-pessimism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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38. Canadian Noir: Consumer Culture, Colonial Nationalism and the Cardinal Series.
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Jones, Manina
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MYSTERY fiction , *CANADIAN fiction , *TELEVISION adaptations , *NOIR fiction - Abstract
Giles Blunt's Cardinal police-procedural novels and their recent television adaptations evidence the noir genre's sombre aesthetic, focus on a morally tainted hero, are preoccupied with seemingly irrational violence, and fixate on unresolved past injustices. In doing so, they reflect Canada's aesthetic and ethical relationship to questions of national and transnational culture, colonial territoriality, and the moral principles at stake in the representation of violence. This Canadian 're-branding' of noir features is haunted by deep-seated historical dissension and the present-day repercussions that are at the heart of the country's national identity. Focusing on the first season of Cardinal (2017) and the novel from which it was adapted, Forty Words for Sorrow (2002), this essay examines the series' stylish – if conflicted – reworking of noir's roots in American crime fiction and film, and its use of contemporary Nordic influences, which work to salvage a form of Canadian cultural authenticity from the cultural dominance of US television and film crime dramas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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39. Galician Noir: Diego Ameixeiras, from Parody to Social Critique.
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Grandoso, Javier Rivero
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GALICIAN fiction , *MYSTERY fiction , *NOIR fiction , *FICTION , *CRIME in literature - Abstract
It is generally agreed that Galician crime fiction began in 1984, when Carlos G. Reigosa's Crime en Compostela was published. Since then, different authors have explored the genre with varying success. One of the best-known writers of Galician crime fiction is Diego Ameixeiras, who published eleven novels between 2004 (Baixo mínimos) and 2018 (A crueldade de abril). This paper will focus on Ameixeiras's works, in particular Baixo mínimos and A noite enriba (2015). The distance between their dates of publication will allow us to highlight through their differences in structure and style the clear evolution in Ameixeiras's narrative production from parody to social critique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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40. 'Burminggaon? Nottinggaon? Biradforrd?': British Asian Noir Depictions of Bradford.
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Chambers, Claire
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NOIR fiction , *MYSTERY fiction - Abstract
In this article, I examine noir representations of Bradford, that important West Yorkshire city which, as one British-Punjabi character's mispronunciation suggests, has been transformed by South Asian Muslim migration. I examine a trilogy: M. Y. Alam's Bradford noir novels Annie Potts is Dead , Kilo and Red Laal (1998−2012), and a tetralogy: A. A. Dhand's Streets of Darkness , Girl Zero , City of Sinners and One Way Out (2016−2019). These novels explore the biradari or kinship system evoked by Atia Hosain's character in her neologism 'Biradforrd'. They also focus, among other matters, on Bradford's predominantly Mirpuri community from the Azad Kashmir region of northeast Pakistan. I argue that despite their different religious backgrounds, Alam and Dhand are both from the 'myth of return' class and generation, and portray from the inside Bradfordians' ghettoized deprivation, drugs problem and vulnerability to racist and Islamophobic abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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41. Wirusocentryczne narracje reporterskie z nurtu „mrocznej biologii”.
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ADAMCZEWSKA-BARANOWSKA, IZABELLA
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NOIR fiction ,MYSTERY fiction ,HORROR tales ,NONFICTION ,CREATIVE nonfiction ,ECOCRITICISM - Abstract
This paper discuses an eco-apocalyptic non-fiction, which can be described as dark biology (referring to dark fantasy, dark science-fiction or noir crime fiction). The analysis is focused on Richard Preston’s, David Quamenn’s, Karl Taro Freenfeld’s and Nathan Wolfe’s medical/ scientific nonfiction and heroic-exploratory narratives. The authors of dark narratives about viruses use the motives typical of crime, thriller, horror or sensation fiction. This analysis is set in a context of „dark ecology” — Timothy Morton’s eco-critical project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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42. Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond: Negotiating geopolitical regionalisation through SVoD crime narratives.
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Kim Toft Hansen
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MYSTERY fiction , *MARKET share , *NOIR fiction , *MUNICIPAL services , *CRIME - Abstract
In this article, I show how a vision for the Nordic region exists as a banal Nordism, based on years of content exchange, Nordic co-production models, and public funding opportunities. I document how new commercial players have been able to gain a very large market share in only a few years, significantly disrupting the reach of public service broadcasters in the Nordic region. The three largest contemporary commercial players on the Nordic market - Viaplay, HBO, and Netflix - have been able to, in very different ways, tap into the ideology of banal Nordism and the geopolitical unity of the Nordic region, and they have done so by producing and acquiring content that has deep associations with one of the Nordic region's main international brands: Scandinavian crime fiction and Nordic Noir. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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43. The Green and the Black: Ecological Awareness and the Darkness of Noir.
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HOLLISTER, LUCAS
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ECOLOGY , *FICTION , *NOIR fiction , *MYSTERY fiction , *NARRATIVES - Abstract
The article discusses green aesthetic thought or ecological awareness and the dark fictional domain called noir. Topics discussed include the emergence of ecological awareness as a pervasive traumatic or pretraumatic imaginary, narrrativization of traumatic ecological awareness by crime fiction or violent popular fiction, and the articulation of the green and the black.
- Published
- 2019
44. Laidlaw
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William McIlvanney and William McIlvanney
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, Police--Scotland--Fiction, Police
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First in “a crime trilogy so searing it will burn forever into your memory. McIlvanney is the original Scottish criminal mastermind” (Christopher Brookmyre, international bestselling author). The Laidlaw novels, a groundbreaking trilogy that changed the face of Scottish fiction, are credited with being the founding books of the Tartan Noir movement that includes authors like Val McDermid, Denise Mina, and Ian Rankin. Says McDermid of William McIlvanney: “Patricia Highsmith had taken us inside the head of killers; Ruth Rendell tentatively explored sexuality; with No Mean City, Alexander McArthur had exposed Glasgow to the world; Raymond Chandler had dressed the darkness in clever words. But nobody had ever smashed those elements together into so accomplished a synthesis.” In Laidlaw, the first book of the series, readers meet Jack Laidlaw, a hard-drinking philosopher-detective whose tough exterior cloaks a rich humanity and keen intelligence. Laidlaw's investigation into the murder of a young woman brings him into conflict with Glasgow's hard men, its gangland villains, and the moneyed thugs who control the city. As the gangsters running Glasgow race Laidlaw for the discovery of the young woman's killer, a sense of dangerous betrayal infests the city that only Laidlaw can erase. “From the opening chapter of Laidlaw, I knew I'd never read a crime novel like this.” —Val McDermid, international bestselling author “It's doubtful I would be a crime writer without the influence of McIlvanney's Laidlaw.” —Ian Rankin, New York Times–bestselling author “Laidlaw is a tough novel, with an exciting ending, and it is superbly written. You should not miss this one.” —The New York Times “A classic of the genre.” —The Guardian
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- 2014
45. The Wrong Quarry
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Max Allan Collins and Max Allan Collins
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- Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, Assassins--Fiction, Missing persons--Fiction
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A HIT. AND A MISS. Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them...and then removing that problem as well. So far he's rid of the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights? The Critics Love QUARRY'Violent and volatile and packed with sexuality...classic pulp fiction.'-- USA Today'Collins'witty, hard-boiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud.'-- Entertainment Weekly
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- 2014
46. Belfast Noir
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Adrian McKinty, Stuart Neville, Adrian McKinty, and Stuart Neville
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- Fiction, Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, English, Detective and mystery stories, English, English fiction--Irish authors, English fiction--21st century, Noir fiction
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Atmospheric, all-new crime fiction set in this Northern Ireland city—from Lee Child, Arlene Hunt, Steve Cavanagh, Gerard Brennan, and more. During the decades of the Troubles, Belfast was plagued with riots, bombings, and other violence, and armored vehicles patrolled the streets—a daily darkness that is reflected in the personality of the city. New York Times–bestselling author Lee Child calls it “the most noir place on earth.” This collection of short stories in the “acclaimed noir series” provides not only a compelling read for fans of mystery and suspense and an opportunity to discover some new must-read authors, but a portrait of the moody, murderous history of Belfast (Publishers Weekly). Featuring brand-new stories by Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan “The works are short, allowing readers to savor each snippet or devour the entire compelling book in a day, depending on just how deliciously gloomy they're feeling.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review) “All the stories are compelling and well executed... Great writing for fans of noir and short stories, with some tales close to perfection.” —Library Journal (starred review) “The choices made by editors McKinty and Neville celebrate lowlifes, convicts, hookers, private eyes, cops and reporters, and, above all, the gray city at the heart of each story.” —Kirkus Reviews
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- 2014
47. Eleven Days
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Stav Sherez and Stav Sherez
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- Noir fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Murder--Investigation--England--London--Fi, Murder--Investigation
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Second in the acclaimed Carrigan and Miller series from the author of A Dark Redemption. “[A] superbly written, intelligent and captivating crime novel” (Crime Review). It is eleven days before Christmas, and an early morning fire rages through a West London square, engulfing a convent tucked within a handsome residential neighborhood. Detectives Jack Carrigan and Geneva Miller arrive at the dreadful scene to find eleven dead bodies—but there were only ten nuns in residence. Despite the department's top brass pressing for the case to be solved before the holidays, the detectives suspect more than mere arson. Why did the nuns make no move to escape the fire? Who is the eleventh victim? And where is the convent's influential priest liaison to the church, the one man who can answer their questions? Shortlisted for the coveted Old Peculier Novel of the Year award, Eleven Days, the new entry in Sherez's acclaimed series which began with A Dark Redemption, follows Carrigan and Miller as they unravel an elaborate mystery that spans four decades and two continents. On their second case together, the partners, at once fresh and familiar, confront both their haunting pasts and the dangers that threaten to cut short their futures. As pressure intensifies to close the case, they struggle to solve a hidden history whose exposure threatens both the church and the political establishment. “Sherez scores high marks for his writing and characterization. Carrigan and Miller are shaping up to be an attractive duo.” —The Times “Engrossing... A surprising plot and well-developed characters led by Carrigan and Miller make for a highly satisfying mystery.” —Publishers Weekly
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- 2014
48. The Rage
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Gene Kerrigan and Gene Kerrigan
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- Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Suspense fiction, Police--Ireland--Fiction, Police--Fiction.--Ireland
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Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. “Fans [of The Wire] can find many of the same strengths in Kerrigan's work” (The New York Times). Vincent Naylor has just been released from prison and has already begun to plot his next heist—the robbery of an armored car. Det. Sgt. Bob Tidey has been caught perjuring himself to protect fellow officers. He's also found the link between an unsolved murder case and the recent execution of a corrupt banker in serious financial difficulty. An old acquaintance will change the course of the investigation. A retired nun living on regrets and bad memories notices something deeply suspicious and makes a phone call that sets in motion a series of fateful events. In The Rage, Gene Kerrigan weaves together astute observations regarding a financial crisis, church abuse, and gangland crime. The writing is, as always with a Kerrigan novel, superb, with an engaging story that has pitch perfect dialogue and characters that come fully alive. The prize-winning crime fiction is set in contemporary Ireland where nothing is neatly resolved and there are no easy choices. Like life itself. “A perfect novel... beautifully constructed, with sharp and relevant dialogue, and not a superfluous word to be found.” —The Oregonian “Gritty and compulsively readable.” —The Wall Street Journal “Tightly plotted... the story's pacing is masterly.” —The New Yorker “A boundlessly readable portrait of an Ireland in which all the old certainties have vanished. Remarkable for its verve, moral trickiness, and nifty plotting.” —NPR Fresh Air “Fans of Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes, and Declan Burke won't want to miss this one.” —Booklist (starred review)
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- 2013
49. The Crocodile
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Maurizio de Giovanni and Maurizio de Giovanni
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- Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, Serial murders--Italy--Naples--Fiction, Murder--Investigation--Italy--Naples--Fict, Murder--Investigation, Serial murders
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The author of the Commissario Ricciardi series “manages to conjure up the terrifying darkness at the heart of a serial killer in this chilling procedural” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).The chaotic, shadowy city of Naples proves the perfect hunting ground for a killer dubbed “The Crocodile” by the press. Like a crocodile, when he devours his own children, he cries. And like a crocodile he is a perfect killing machine: He waits and watches until his prey is within range, and then he strikes.Three young people with very diverse backgrounds have been found murdered in three different neighborhoods, each shot with a single bullet, execution style. While his colleagues see little or no connection, Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono, smells a rat. Once an esteemed member of the mobile unit of the Agrigento police force, Lojacono was accused of leaking sensitive information to the mob and has now lost everything—first and foremost the love of his wife and daughter. But now he's been given a second chance and a shot at clearing his name. A young magistrate has heard of his preternatural skills and his incredible powers of observation and she thinks a man like him is needed in Naples. So it is that Inspector Lojacono is charged with finding the link between the three dead bodies. At the root of these murders, he will discover, is a pain that still burns, a sense of guilt than cannot be purged, and one all-consuming love.“A wonderfully suspenseful novel in which de Giovanni restores life to the cliché of the world-weary detective.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Offers an elegant narrative and vividly rendered characters. It's genuinely seductive.” —Booklist
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- 2013
50. Dallas Noir
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David Hale Smith and David Hale Smith
- Subjects
- Noir fiction, Mystery fiction, American fiction--Texas--Dallas, Detective and mystery stories, American, Noir fiction, American
- Abstract
Gritty all-new crime stories set in the bustling Texas city, by Ben Fountain, Kathleen Kent, James Hime, and many more. In a country with so many interesting cities, Dallas is often overlooked—except on November 22 every year. On that day in 1963, Dallas became American noir. This collection of crime stories takes its inspiration from the darker corners of everyday life in a city that many associate only with a historic assassination—or a glitzy TV show about oil fortunes and family feuds. 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, David Haynes, and J. Suzanne Frank.
- Published
- 2013
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