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Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- June 2012 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Fickling, G.G. The Honey West Files (Honey West) (r) ., Buy this book
Collects the first three novels: This Girl for Hire, A Gun for Honey and Girl on the Loose.
- April 2012 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Child, Lee, editor, Vengeance (MWA collection)...Buy this book...Kindle it!
Darker collection than usual from the Mystery Writers of America, focussing, naturally, on tales of revenge.
Contributors include Alafair Burke, Michael Connelly, Mike Cooper, Brendan DuBois, Jim Fusilli, Dennis Lehane, Steve Liskow, Twist Phelan, Zoe Sharp, Karin Slaughter and of course editor Child himself.
- March 2012 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Cain, Paul, The Complete Slayers (collection)...Buy this book
Long-awaited collection, co-edited by Lynn Myers and Max Alan Collins, features the novel Fast One and all Cain's short fiction written for Black Mask and other pulps. Includes both his P.I. stories about Black, as well as intros to each story by some of the current big shots of crime fiction. And me, there to cleanse the palate, no doubt.
- Phillips, Gary, editor, Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes...Buy this book...Kindle it!
Politically charged rage occupies this hard-boiled collection of tales by David Corbett, SJ Rozan, Reed Farrel Coleman, Brendan DuBois, Kelli Stanley, Tyler Dilts, Travis Richardson, Eric Stone, Bob Truluck, Pamela Samuels Young, Darrell James, Lono Waiwaiole, Seth Harwood and Gary Phillips.
- Various, Barrelhouse: Crime...Get it!
The tragically hip literary journal turns to crime, offering a malicious medley of "fiction, poetry, pop flotsam and cultural jetsam." With a little help from their friends at Small Town Noir, they've compiled agreat anthology, with contributions from Stewart O'Nan, Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevinger, Brian Evenson, Paula Bomer, Randall Brown, Chad Simpson, Mary Biddinger, Michelle Dove, Art Taylor, and Tara Laskowski, plus real mug shots and an illustrated storyby Emma Straub and Elizabeth Graeber.
- February 2012 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Harvey, John, A Darker Shade of Blue . Buy this book.. Kindle it!
Anthology includes all eight stories featuring P.I. Jack Kiley, plus more, including a handful featuring Charlie Resnick..
- January 2012 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Leonard, Elmore, Fire in the Whole (collection) (r)., Buy this book
Collects 9 stories, slightly revised edition of When the Women Come Out to Dance.
- Phillips, Gary, and Andrew Gibbons, editors, Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail. .Buy this book.. Kindle it!
Phillips and Gibbons get all in-yer-face with 18 tales, mostly new, of "Crime, Love and Rebellion" and it couldn't have come at a better time. Contributors include Sara Paretsky, Kim Stanley Robinson, Paco Taibo II, Cory Doctorow and Ken Wishnia
- December Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Sims, Michael, editor, The Dead Witness. .Buy this book.. Kindle it!
Sub-titled "A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories," and featuring solid tales from Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Bret Harte, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anna Katharine Green and a covey of people you've probably never heard of, including Australian writer Mary Fortune who is credited with being the first woman to write a detective story.
- Troy, Mark, Game Face (Val Lyon)...Buy this book..Kindle it!
Collects all eight Val Lyon P.I. stories..
November 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Mattson, Joseph, The Speed Chronicles. Buy this book
Akashic, perhaps fearing they'll soon run out of burgs to "noir-ize," kicks off a new crime fiction anthology series dedicated to drugs and other controlled substances. If the stories are all as good as Megan Abbott's "Everything I Want," this series may be as addictive as the noir" series is.
- Mortimer, John, Forever Rumpole (Rumpole) (r). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
- October 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Thornton, Brian, editor, West Coast Crime Wave.. Kindle it!...Nook it!
From Alaska to SoCal and back, these eighteen stories make their Left Coast setting a major character in the plot, with brand new stories from David Corbett, Steve Hockensmith, Simon Wood, Terrill Lee Lankford, Steve Brewer, Bill Cameron, Naomi Hirahara, R.T. Lawton, Jim Winter and others, as well as a rock 'em, sock 'em intro from Ken Bruen.
- September 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Block, Lawrence, The Night and the Music (Matthew Scudder)...Buy this book ...Kindle it!
- King, Laurie R., & Leslie S. Klinger, editors, A Study in Sherlock ...Buy this book...Kindle it!
Edited and compiled by Laurie R. King (who knows a little about Holmesian pastiche) and Leslie S. Klinger (a Sherlockian scholar), there are no reheated leftovers here -- just sixteen all new stories by some of the very top writers in the mystery game, many of whose fictional stomping grounds are generally very far indeed from 221B Baker Street. Contributors include such left-of-centre choices as Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Gayle Lynds, Neil Gaiman, Alan Bradley and Jacqueline Winspear.
- Rawson, Keith, Cameron Ashley & Jimmy Callaway, editors, Crime Factory: The First Shift ...Buy this book
First trade paperback anthology collects 28 stories from ezine, including contributions from Dave White, Dave Zeltserman and even a number of people not named Dave.
- August 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Herren, Greg, and J.M. Redmann, editors, Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir...Buy this book
Arguably the first collection of gay noir. Review here.
- Herren, Greg, and J.M. Redmann, editors, Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir...Buy this book
Dyke dicks and other sapphic sleuths.
- July 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Callaway, Jimmy, editor, Black Heart Magazine: The NOIR Issue... Get it!
Special noir issue of the online literary mag edited and produced by Laura "Naked Montreal" Roberts that preaches "reading, writing, rebellion." This, the first of their themed digital issues, features contributions from Christopher Benton, Richie Narvaez, Dan O'Shea, Benjamin Sobieck, Keith Rawson, Kieran Shea, Stephen D. Rogers, Jonathan Woods and more, guest edited by Jimmy Callaway.
- June 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Ruttan, Sandra, & Brian Lindemuth, editors, Speedloader...Kindle it!
Six-story noir anthology from Snubnose Press, with stories by Richard Thomas, Nik Korpon, Nigel Bird, Matthew C Funk and Jonathan Woods. Spinetingling!
- Starr, Jimmy, A Jimmy Starr Omnibus (Joe Medford) ...Buy this book
Includes all three novels featuring Hollywood newshawk Joe Medford from the 1940s
- Various, Collateral Damage!.. Kindle it
Hot on the heels of their last collection, Terminal Damage, and just in time for Father's Day, the Do Some Damage gang release a new anthology, with stories from Dave White, Steve Weddle, Joelle Charbonneau, Scott Parker, Jay Stringer, Sandra Ruttan, John McFetridge. and Russel McLean, with a new Sam Bryson yarn.
- May 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- DeMille, Nelson, editor, The Rich And The Dead (MWA anthology). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
Includes stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, and S.J. Rozan.
- March 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Moore, Christopher G., editor, Bangkok Noir.. Buy this book
First-ever anthology of Bangkok crime fiction, edited by Christopher G. Moore, the creator of Bangkok P.I. Vinnie Calvino, and featuring original noir stories by John Burdett, Pico Iyer, Timothy Hallinan, Dean Barrett and others.
- Top Suspense: 13 Classic Stories by 12 Masters of the Genre.. Buy this book . Kindle it!
13 stories by the "Top Suspense" gang. Includes stories by Ed Gorman, Max Allan Collins, Harry Shannon, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Vicki Hendricks, Bill Crider, Naomi Hirahara and others, plus a group effort entitled "The Chase."
- Washburn, L.J. Hallam (Hallam) ...Kindle it!
Contains four stories about the cowboy eye.
- February 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- White, Dave, More Sinned Against (Jackson Donne)...Kindle it!
One of our favourite P.I.s gets all his short stories rounded up. With an intro from Ray Banks.
- January 2011 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Faherty, Terrence, The Hollywood Op (Scott Elliott).. Buy this book
Collects eight stories featuring retro eye Scott Elliott.
- Oates, Joyce Carol, Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense...Buy this book.. Kindle it!
The noir master returns with tales to scare little boys and grown men.
- December 2010 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Danticat, Edwidge, editor, Haiti Noir... Buy this book
36th entry in Akashic's Noir series features stories from the hardluck Caribbean island, with brand-new stories by Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint-Eloi, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, M.J. Fievre, Marvin Victor, Yanick Lahens, Louis-Philipe Dalembert, Kettly Mars, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Evelyne Trouillot, Katia Ulysse, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Nadine Pinede and others you mostly haven't heard of. Blow your mind.
- November 2010 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Estleman, Loren, Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection (Amos Walker) ..Buy this book
- McFetridge, John, editor, Terminal Damage...Kindle it!
Eight stories tied together (for your safety and those of fellow passengers) by one single, horrible visit to the airport, featuring tales of ennui, desperation, murder and incomprehensible P.A. announcements from fellow travellers Joelle Charbonneau, Jay Stringer, John McFetridge, Dave White, Russel D. McLean, Byron Quertermous, Scott D. Parker and Steve Weddle.
- Keene, Day, League of the Grateful Dead and Other Stories..Buy this book
First in an ambitious series that aims to collect all of the master pulpsters short stories.
- October 2010 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Abbott, Patricia, and Stephen Weddle, editors, Discount Noir ...Kindle it!
Shopping is murder, and can get even uglier than WalMart shoppers at two in the morning. Don't believe me? Check out these flash fiction tales of MegaMart murder and mayhem by such savvy customers as Patricia Abbott, Ed Gorman, Bill Crider, John McFetridge, James Reasoner, Todd Mason, Sandra Scoppettone, Stephen D. Rogers, Sandra Seamans, Donna Moore, Keith Rawson and Gerald So, among others.
- Cranmer, David, and Elaine Ash, editors, Beat to a Pulp: Round One...Buy this book
Twenty-seven chunks of knockout pulp, ranging from noir, crime and hardboiled to ghost, western, fantasy and sci-fi. Featuring stories from Patricia Abbott, Charles Ardai, Ed Gorman, Robert J. Randisi, James Reasoner, and Stephen D. Rogers, plus a foreword by Bill Crider and great cover art by James O'Barr.Twenty-seven chunks of pulp, ranging from noir, crime and hardboiled to ghost, western, fantasy and sci-fi.
- September 2010 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Penzler, Otto, editor, The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories..Buy this book
Once you get past the ridiculous title, you're met with arguably the greatest collection of hard-boiled pulp stories ever. Edited by the tireless Otto Penzler, it deals out a winning hand of over 50 hard-boiled stories and even complete novels by some of the greatest pulp writers to ever pound a typewriter, including Dashiell Hammett (whose "The Maltese Falcon" appears in the original – and much-different --serialized version), Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner. Also included are hard-to-find treasures from Raoul Whitfield, John D. MacDonald, Frederick Nebel, Lester Dent, Norbert Davis, Cornell Woolrich, Carroll John Daly, Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain and Horace McCoy. With prose as tough as a two-buck steak and gritty as a sandpaper massage, this is where your hard-boiled education begins.
- July 2010 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Randisi, Robert J., editor, The Shamus Winners: America's Best Private Eye Stories: Volume I...Buy this book
Includes all the Shamus-winning stories from 1982 to 1995, by the likes of John Lutz, Bill Pronzini, Lawrence Block, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Ed Gorman, Mickey Spillane, Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard, Benjamin M. Schutz, Linda Barnes, Max Allan Collins, and Sue Grafton.
- Randisi, Robert J., editor, The Shamus Winners: America's Best Private Eye Stories: Volume II.. Buy this book
Includes the rest of the Shamus-winning stories up to 2009, from Pearl Abraham, Mitch Alderman, O'Neil De Noux, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Terrence Faherty, Gar Anthony Haywood, Jeremiah Healy, Ceri Jordan, John Lutz, Lia Matera, Warren Murphy, I. J. Parker, Cornelia Read, Carolyn Wheat and Michael Wiecek.
- May 2010 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
- Santlofer, Jonathan, & S.J. Rozan, editors, The Dark End of the Street....Buy this book....Kindle it!
The subtitle says it all. "New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors." Includes stories by Lawrence Block, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Michael Connelly (with a Mickey Haller story), Val McDermid, Janice Lee, Francine Prose, etc.
- April 2010 Short Fiction, Anthologies and Collections
Parker, T. Jefferson, ed., Hook, Line and Sinister....Buy this book
Editor Parker lands 16 original stories from William G. Tapply, Dana Stabenow, John Lescroart, Brian M. Wiprud, Don Winslow, Melodie Johnson howe, Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson, C.J. Box, and James W. Hall, among others -- all guaranteed to ber more fun than cutting bait. Proceeds go to two charitable groups, Casting For Recovery, which helps women cancer survivors to heal body and soul through fly-fishing, and Project Healing Waters, which does the same for our returning veterans.
- Phillips, Gary, ed.,Queens Noir....Buy this book
Akashic continues their tour of the planet, this time concentrating on the ethnically diverse New York. Among those acting as tour guides are Denis Hamill, Maggie Estep, Megan Abbott (who unleashes her inner Lebowski in with a bowling story), Robert Knightly, Tori Carrington (the author of the Sofie Metropolis series, who turns in a surprisingly hard little tale) and K.j.a. Wishnia,.
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