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What's new in the P.I. world...
- April 2010 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.
- November 2009 Anthologies and Collections
- Lehane, Dennis, editor, Boston Noir.....Buy this book
Akashic continues their noir world tour with the editorial help of Dennis Lehane, with contributions from Stewart O'Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron. How do you like them beans?
- Millikin, Patrick, editor, Phoenix Noir...Buy this book
Akashic again. This one features brand-new stories by Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte.
- October 2009 Anthologies and Collections
- Gorman, Ed, and Martin Greenberg, editors, Between the Dark and the Daylight: And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year...Buy this book
Gorman & Greenberg's annual collection is always a blast. This year's includes short stories by Michael Connelly, Charlaine Harris, T. Jefferson Parker, Joyce Carol Oates, Scott Phillips, Megan Abbott, Charles Ardai, Sean Chercover, Nancy Pickard, Bill Crider, Gary Phillips, Patricia Abbot, Peter Robinson, Martin Edwards, Jeremiah Healy, Martin Lim and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert S. Levinson, Bill Pronzini, Doug Allyn, Brett Battles, Norman Partridge, N.J. Ayres, David Edgerly Gates, Dominique Mainard, and John Harvey, plus "The Mystery Year in Review" by Jon L. Breen.
- Straub, Peter, editor, Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps...Buy this book
Straub, Peter, editor, Terror and the Uncanny: From the 1940s to Now...Buy this book
Not exactly P.I. fare, but anyone interested in the development of the horror genre will go for this impressive two-volume Library of America collection that presents a staggering array of classic American tales of mystery, horror, terror and things you can't even begin to imaginat. Volume one traces the development of the genre, with selections from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe (of course), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ambrose Bierce, among others, while the second volume traces the genre from the pulps right up to the present day, with stories from Fritz Leiber, Stephen King, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, Gene Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and more. Available seperately, or as a boxed set that includes both volumes.
- Mortimer, John, A Rumpole Christmas (Horace Rumpole)...Buy this book
Just in time for Christmas, this tasty little volume brings together five holiday-themed stories, never before pStraub, Peter, editor,
- September 2009 Anthologies and Collections
- Robinson, Peter, The Price of Love and Other Stories...Buy this book
A shotgun blast of short crime stories, including a couple featuring Inspector Banks. But the real treat for P.I. fans will, of course, be the reprinting of "The Cherub Affair," about a Toronto P.I.
- August 2009 Anthologies and Collections
- Jakubowski , Maxim, editor, The Mammoth Book of the World's Best Crime Stories
Buy this book....Kindle it!
An impressive slab of a paperback that collects 40 tales of murder and mayhem from all over the globe, and boasts some of the genre’s greatest authors, including John Mortimer, Ruth Rendell, Howard Engel, Ian Rankin, Boris Akunin, Mark Billingham, Giorgio Faletti, Jo Nesbo and Jeffrey Deaver. There’s something for everyone here, ranging from noir to whodunnits, and the settings include Italy, Cuba, Scandinavia, Russia, USA, Japan, Germany, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Canada. What better way to bring the world together than by learning how they bump each other off in other countries?
- Sawhney, Hirsh, editor, Delhi Noir...Buy this book
First Rome, now Delhi. This must be the year Akashic goes global.
- June 2009 Anthologies and Collections
- Cussler, Clive, editor, Thriller 2...Buy this book
Second collection from the International Thriller Writers, featuring stories by Ridley Pearson, Marcus Sakey, David Montgomery, Sean Chercover, Simon Wood and Lisa Jackson, among others.
- Robinson, Todd, editor, Sex, Thugs, and Rock'n'Roll...Buy this book
Round two from the guys at ThugLit, featuring keepers from Jason Starr, Scott Wolven, Joe Lansdale, AlmGuthrie and Marcus Sakey, among others.
- Sampsell, Kevin, editor, Portland Noir...Buy this book
Yet another in the Akashic Noir series. This one skips the big names and focusses, presumably, on local writers.
- May 2009 Anthologies and Collections
- Penzler, Otto, editor, Black Noir...Buy this book
Now that Akashic is well on its way to covering almost every geographical variation on noir anthologies, it's time to start bestowing noir collections on assorted ethnic, racial and cultural groups, I suppose. Not that I'm against it -- this one, featuring African-American contributors, promises to be quite the read,, but I can't help worrying that the niche-picking will soon deteriorate, and we'll be flooded with L ithuanian Noir and Inuit Noir collections?
- March 2009 Anthologies and Collections
- Cortez, Sarah, and Liz Martinez, editors, Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery.. Buy this book
A collection of short fiction by Latino mystery writers with contributions from Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Rolando Hinojosa, Manuel Ramos and others.
- Wilson, F. Paul, Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities ...Buy this book
Including several Repairman Jack tales.
- February 2009 Anthologies and Collections
- Maravelis, Peter, editor, San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics...Buy this book
Ka-ching, ching, ching goes the trolley. Reheats stories from Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Jack London, Dashiell Hammett, Fletcher Flora, Bill Pronzini, Joe Gores, Janet Dawson, Oscar Peñaranda and others.
- Stangalino, Chiara and Maxim, Jakubowski, editors, Rome Noir...Buy this book
Akashic goes Italian! Translated by Anne Milano Appel, Ann Goldstein and Kathrine Jason.
- January 2009 Anthologies and Collections
- Vandersteen, Jochem, Tough As Leather (Noah Milano)... Buy this book
- November 2008 Anthologies and Collections
- Block, Lawrence, One Night Stands and Lost Weekends...Buy this book
Early Block stories, written when his typewriter still had training wheels on it, pulled from the pages of C and D-list late fifties/early sixties pulp digests like Trapped, Guilt and Saturn Web Detective. Also includes all three Ed London stories.
- Masson, Aurélien, editor, Paris Noir...Buy this book
Zut! Un autre?
- Ziyalan, Mustafa, Istanbul Noir (collection)...Buy this book
Rock the casbah with Akashic's latest, boasting new stories from Baris Mustecaplioglu, Muge Iplikci, Behcet Celik, Algan Sezginturedi, Ismail Guzelsoy, Hikmet Hukumenoglu, Lydia Lunch, Yasemin Aydinoglu, Riza Kirac, Sadik Yemni, Feryal Tilmac, Mehmet Bilal, Inan Cetin, Mustafa Ziyalan, Jessica Lutz, and Tarkan Barlas. Yeah, I haven't either.
- October 2008 Anthologies and Collections
- Lippman, Laura, Hardly Knew Her ....Buy this book
A rock-solid collection from the creator of the Tess Monaghan, featuring a couple of Tess stories, an "exclusive interview" of Tess by Lippman, and a hefty selection of some of the most dark, twisted and imaginative crime short stories being written today. Today Baltimore, tomorrow the world.
- Pelecanos, George, and Otto Penzler, editors, The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 ....Buy this book
Yet another solid entry in this long-running series, this time with George Pelecanos riding shotgun.Highlights this time around include selections from Elizabeth Strout, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro,Michael Connelly and James Lee Burke.
- September 2008 Anthologies and Collections
- Pelecanos, George, editor, DC Noir 2 ....Buy this book
Akashic reworks the same vein, this time settling for reprints. But what reprints! They include Edward P. Jones, George Pelecanos (of course), Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Grady, and others.
- June 2008 Anthologies and Collections
- Robinson, Todd, editor, Hardcore Hardboiled ....Buy this book
Duh. I get it. This is supposed to be HARD. The Thuglit boys and some of their pals get hard, presenting some of the best (and hardest) crime stories from some of the best-known writers in the genre -- guys like Bruen, Chercover, Gischler, Swierczynski, Stella, McLean, etc. Yeah, in these stories guys cuss up a storm, various implements are shoved into various parts of the body they're not supposed to go into, and plenty of bodily fluids are let loose. As Otto Penzler points out in his surprisingly mocking intro, you were expecting tea with the vicar? Todd knows hard.
- May 2008 Anthologies and Collections
- Armin, Janine, and Nathaniel G. Moore, Toronto Noir ....Buy this book
Haven't read this yet, but that the contributors consist mostly of unknown writers (even by Canadian standards) is world class disappointing. Sure, they've got Peter Robinson, Gail Bowen, and Andrew Pyper to reel in the curious, but the CanCrime scene is a hell of a lot stronger than this. Maybe old school champs like Engel and Wright declined, but where are guys like McFetridge? Blair? Carpenter? Maffini? Aubert? John Swan? Were they even asked to participate? Or weren't they "Toronto" enough?
- Mosley, Walter, The Tempest Tales (non-P.I. parables) ...Buy this book
A collection of parables about Tempest Landry, a black man shot dead by police who refuses to accept St. Peter's verdict that he must spend eternity in Hell and instead returns to Earth to set things right -- with a guardian angel in tow.
- So, Gerald, editor, The Lineup: Poems on Crime ....Buy this book
Thrilling fiction editor So stakes a claim on the the crime-rhyme turf, aided and abetted by Patrick Shawn Bagley, R. Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone, and featuring poetry in a hard-boiled vein from the likes of Graham Everett, Daniel Thomas Moran, Daniel Hatadi, Stephen D. Rogers and Ken Bruen, among others. But the real discovery for me was Misti Rainwater-Lites whose in your face sensuality and sexuality is as unapologetic as it is fierce. It must be hard to write with brass knuckles on, but these guys and dames, these bards of badass, manage t do it, peeling back the secret hurts of bruised and battered hearts to deliver tough, terse slabs of true grit.
- April 2008 Anthologies and Collections
- Phillips, Gary, editor, Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power ....Buy this book
About as in your face as it gets, this is a no-holds-barred slice of venom aimed at the powers that be and the corruption that is. To be sure, a lot of these dark, nasty stories have nothing to do -- theoretically -- with the current administration, and editor Phillips attempts a fair and balanced tone in his intro, but the actual stories (including his) make it pretty clear which side of the line most of these writers are coming from -- and are all the more powerful for it. Contributors also include Darrell James, John Shannon, Robert Greer, Twist Phelan, Ken Wishnia, pete Hautman and Sujata Massey. This is primo stuff, angry and pissed off, its bleak cynicism perhaps best summed up by a character in Ken Bruen's contribution: "Call it politics. I call it shite."
- January 2008 Anthologies and Collections
- Knightly, Robert, 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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