Venice Noir by Maxim Jakubowski (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"Drifter" by Emily Mandel was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, edited by Otto Penzler and Lisa Scottoline Original stories by: Peter James, Emily St. John Mandel, Barbara Baraldi, Mike Hodges, Mary Hoffman, Maria Tronca, Matteo Righetto, Tony Cartano, Francesco Ferracin, ...Show more
Helsinki Noir by James Thompson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
The excitement around Scandinavian crime fiction has focused largely on Sweden, but Finland - as poignantly revealed here - is equally dark, grisly and strong in the noir department. Helsinki's endless bays and islands offer a killer plenty of places to dump a body and, because winter days can often con ...Show more
Los Angeles Noir by Denise Hamilton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
Los Angeles is the birthplace of noir. Maybe it's the overwhelming shadow cast by Hollywood, the blur of artifice and reality, the possibility of shucking off the past like last year's dress and reinventing yoursefl beyond your wildest dreams. Maybe it's the desperation that descends when the dream goes ...Show more
Copenhagen Noir by Bo Tao Michaelis
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
Joining Rome, Paris, Istanbul, London and Dublin as European hosts of the Akashic Noir series, Copenhagen Noir features brand-new stories from a top-notch crew of Danish writers, with several Swedish and Norwegian writers thrown into the mix. This volume definitively reveals why Scandinavian crime ficti ...Show more
Mumbai Noir by Altaf Tyrewala
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
Following the Bombay Communal Riots of 1992 which saw neighbour pitched against neighbour in fierce bouts of internecine violence, came the retaliatory bomb blasts of 1993 and the name change to Mumbai in 1995. Mumbai Noir captures the essence of a city dominated by wealth and the lack of it, where the ...Show more
Manhattan Noir by Lawrence Block
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
Mystery titan Lawrence Block takes a bite into Manhattan crime. Brand new stories by Jefferey Deaver, Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, Thomas H. Cook, Jim Fusilli, Robert Knightly, John Lutz, Liz Martinez, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, C.J. Sullivan and Xu Xi. ...Show more
Singapore Noir by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
Say 'Singapore' to anyone and you'll likely hear one of a few words: Caning. Fines. Chewing gum. For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore has been marked largely by its government's strict laws and unwavering enforcement of them. Yet there are many quirky and dark complexities of Singapore that ...Show more
Paris Noir by Aurelien Masson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
Takes readers on a ride into the old medieval quarter of Paris with its winding streets, ghosts and secrets buried in history. Not only an homage to the crime fiction genre, Paris Noir is also an invitation to some of the best French fiction and offers readers an explosive and poetic cocktail of crime, ...Show more
Rio Noir by Tony Bellotto
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original Noir anthologies. Published right before the 2016 Rio Olympics, Rio Noir will reveal more about this fabled city than news coverage will. The images of Rio de Janeiro are well known: high-rises aligned along white sandy beaches, a blue sea, t ...Show more
San Francisco Noir by Peter Maravelis
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
Past meets present as Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Jack London, et al present powerful noir short stories based in and around San Francisco. A stellar sequel to the original smash hit noir anthology.
Brooklyn Noir: The Classics: v. 2 by Tim McLoughlin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
On the heels of the stunning success of bestseller Brooklyn Noir, this second volume digs deeper into the criminal history of New York's punchiest and most alluring borough. Brooklyn Noir 2 offers short stories by the classic authors who blazed the path for the success of the first volume. Each story is ...Show more
Rome Noir by Maxim Jakubowski
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
Looks beyond the tourist facade of Italy's capital. This is the real city of Fellini, Pasolini and countless other major artists who devoted their lives to depicting the grandeur and decadence of this ever fascinating metropolis.