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YOU CAN KEEP THAT TO YOURSELF

ADAM SMYER

“An alphabetized short list of things not to say to African-Americans . . . Smyer’s hilarious sampler offers astute observations on race and culture.” —Publishers Weekly Greetings, well-intentioned person of pallor! Your good intentions used to be enough. But in these diverse and divisive times, some people would hold you accountable for your actions. You were not raised for su...

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THE DARKEST HEARTS

NELSON GEORGE

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 u...

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THE NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES

MICHAEL ZADOORIAN

A comedy of compromise thaT “brims with wit, passion and soul” from the international bestselling author of Beautiful Music (The Millions, A Most Anticipated 2020 Book). Joe Keen and Ana Urbanek have been a couple for a long time, with all the requisite lulls and temptations, yet they remain unmarried and without children, contrary to their Midwestern values (and parents’ wishe...

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BERKELEY NOIR

JIM NISBET / LUCY JANE BLEDSOE / BARRY GIFFORD / SUSAN DUNLAP / SHANTHI SEKARAN

Sixteen storytellers shed light on the darkness that lurks in the California city in this fun collection of crime tales. 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 respective city. With stories by: Barry Gif...

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COLUMBUS NOIR

KRISTEN LEPIONKA / JULIA KELLER / ROBIN YOCUM / YOLONDA TONETTE SANDERS / LEE MARTIN

O-H-Oh-No! Fourteen storytellers reveal a gritty side to C-Bus in this collection of crime tales. 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 respective city. With stories by: Lee Martin, Robin Yocum, Kristen...

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SANTA FE NOIR

KIMMY SANTIAGO BACA / ANA CASTILLO / JAMES REICH / MIRIAM SAGAN / ISRAEL FRANCISCO HAROS LOPEZ

Seventeen storytellers take readers on a dark tour of the arty New Mexican city in this collection of crime tales. 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 respective city. With stories by: Ana Castillo, J...

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NAIROBI NOIR

NGUGI WA THIONG'O / MAKENA ONJERIKA / RASNA WARAH / STANLEY GAZEMBA / KINYANJUI KOMBANI

In this anthology, fourteen authors explore dark mysteries in the concrete jungle capital of Kenya, dealing with topics of race, religion, and corruption. 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 respectiv...

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THE COMMITTEE

STERLING WATSON

“Transmutes Lavender Scare investigators’ ruthless assaults on suspected homosexuals in 1950s Gainesville into heart-racing fiction.” —New York Journal of Books In the late 1950s, Gainesville, Florida, seems to be a sleepy university town. Its residents live, by outward appearances, ordinary lives. And yet the town is far from ordinary. The most private acts of professors, stud...

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CUTTING EDGE

MARGARET ATWOOD / AIMEE BENDER / EDWIDGE DANTICAT / VALERIE MARTIN / BERNICE L. MCFADDEN

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 ...

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BERLIN NOIR

ZOË BECK / ULRICH WOELK

“A city with a rich noir past looks beyond its history to an equally unsettling present” in this anthology of original noir fiction set in Berlin (Kirkus Reviews). From Christopher Isherwood to Philip Kerr, the long and rich tradition of noir fiction set in Berlin can make the genre a daunting challenge for contemporary German authors. But rather than retread the well-worn gr...

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MILWAUKEE NOIR

JANE HAMILTON / REED FARREL COLEMAN / NICK PETRIE / JENNIFER MORALES / LARRY WATSON / VALERIE LAKEN

In this gritty anthology, fourteen mystery stories show the seedier side of the Wisconsin city beyond beer, butter burgers, and Laverne & Shirley. 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. Now...

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THE NECESSARY HUNGER

NINA REVOYR

A Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet "Best of the Bunch" Fiction Pick "High school basketball player Nancy Takahiro's future is uncertain. She's courted by recruiters from various colleges, but isn't sure where she'll go once high school ends. But when her father moves in with the mother of her friend and basketball rival Raina Webber, Nancy's life gets a little more complica...

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SYDNEY NOIR

KIRSTEN TRANTER / MANDY SAYER / ELEANOR LIMPRECHT

Australia’s largest city “provides fertile ground for dark doings, as these 14 tales demonstrate . . . [a] cavalcade of crime Down Under” (Kirkus Reviews). Includes Kirsten Tranter’s Edgar Award-nominated “The Passenger” Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each...

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AMSTERDAM NOIR

HERMAN KOCH / HANNA BERVOETS

This anthology of new noir fiction set in the Dutch capital “features superior writing from authors largely unknown to an American audience” (Publishers Weekly). From its numerous coffee shops where drugs are openly available, to its world-famous Red Light District where prostitutes display themselves in shop windows, Amsterdam is a city where almost anything goes in broad da...

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HONG KONG NOIR

XU XI / MARSHALL MOORE

“Showcases the extremes of one of the world’s capitals. From ghost stories, to historical thrills, to underworld brutality . . . endlessly fascinating.”—CrimeReads 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 th...

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REVOLUTIONARY THREADS

BOBBY SULLIVAN

An American Rastafarian “offers a vibrant examination of American and African history with an anti-colonial patina . . . engaging” (Kirkus Reviews). Revolutionary Threads offers an American Rasta’s retelling of episodes in American history with an anticolonial thrust, accented by Bobby Sullivan’s own personal experiences. The book ties together various subjects while returning ...

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131 DIFFERENT THINGS

ZACHARY LIPEZ

“Framed by Zinner’s sly photograpy . . . A boozy, grungy, alt-rock fable” from the collaborators of Please Take Me Off the Guest List (Kirkus Reviews). When Sam, a bartender in New York, hears that his ex, Vicki, his one true love, has quit AA and is out drinking again, he embarks on a quest to find her. Sam and his sidekick Francis trek from dive bars to gay bars to rocker b...

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VANCOUVER NOIR

LINDA L. RICHARDS / TIMOTHY TAYLOR / SHEENA KAMAL

Linda L. Richards's "Terminal City" has received the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story presented by Crime Writers of Canada! Editor Sam Wiebe's "Wonderful Life" has been named a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story presented by Crime Writers of Canada! "Vancouver Noir is an excellent anthology that would appeal to short-story fans of all ty...

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MARRAKECH NOIR

FOUAD LAROUI / ALLAL BOURQIA / ABDELKADER BENALI

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. Bu...

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BAGHDAD NOIR

MUHSIN AL-RAMLI / NASSIF FALAK / SINAN ANTOON

This unique anthology of Iraqi noir fiction collects fourteen original stories of crime, conspiracy, regret, and revenge in the capital of Iraq. The centuries-old city of Baghdad has known many rulers, many troubles, and many crimes. But while most Iraqis would agree that their life has always been noir, there has not been a literary tradition to capture this aspect of the cult...

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THE MOMENT BEFORE DROWNING

JAMES BRYDON

"Brydon's provocative and unsettling first novel...is a remarkably assured debut by a gifted new writer." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review, Pick of the Week "James Brydon's brilliant The Moment Before Drowning isn't an easy read. Not because of its style, which is sensuous and elegant, but because of its subject matter: the brutality behind war's front lines...After reading ...

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SANTA CRUZ NOIR

TOMMY MOORE / ARIEL GORE / MARGARET ELYSIA GARCIA

“A new collection of short fiction stories explores a seedier side of this beach town filled with murder and mystery.”—KAZU FM In Akashic Books’ award-winning series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir, San Francisco Noir, San Die...

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LAGOS NOIR

JUDE DIBIA / CHIKA UNIGWE / NNEDI OKORAFOR

“A stellar cast of award-winning Nigerian authors . . . a must-read for crime lovers looking for something different.”—Brittle Paper In Akashic Books’s acclaimed series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by on...

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SÃO PAULO NOIR

VANESSA BARBARA / ILANA CASOY

This anthology of noir fiction set in São Paulo, Brazil, “might be the strongest entry yet in the long-running and globe-spanning Akashic Noir series” (San Francisco Book Review). Once known as the Land of Mist, São Paulo is now a dense, diverse, and globalized metropolis. It is the most populous city in the Americas, the Portuguese-speaking world, and the southern hemisphere—w...

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BEAUTIFUL MUSIC

MICHAEL ZADOORIAN

“[An] eight-track flashback of a novel set in 1970s Detroit” from the international bestselling author of The Narcissism of Small Differences (O, the Oprah Magazine, Summer 2018 Reading List). Set in early 1970s Detroit, a divided city still reeling from its violent race riot of 1967, Beautiful Music is the story of one young man’s transformation through music. Danny Yzemski is...

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THE PERFUME BURNED HIS EYES

MICHAEL IMPERIOLI

"An edgy coming-of-age romp set in New York City." --Parade "Screenwriter and Emmy-winning actor Imperioli's first novel is the atmospheric coming-of-age story of 17-year-old Matthew, whose mother moves them from Queens to a posh apartment in Manhattan in 1976...Matt is not an atypical teenager--think Holden Caulfield without the cynicism--but, often afraid and awkward, he is a...

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A KILLING FOR CHRIST

PETE HAMILL

A “fast-paced [and] stylishly punchy” thriller about an assassin targeting the pope, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Snow in August (The New York Times). The man in priest’s garb gets out of the elevator at the top floor, leaving the gate ajar. He pulls out the loaded rifle he had hidden, and steps to the edge of the roof. St. Peter's Square is spread out before him...

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PRAGUE NOIR

MARTIN GOFFA / ŠTEPÁN KOPRIVA

"The 14 crime stories set in Prague in this superior entry in Akashic's Noir Series offer armored car robbery, kidnapping, murder masked as suicide, and more--not bad for a burg that, as the editor notes in his intro, didn't even have 'the profession of private detective' until 1990...In the varied and polished content of this volume, readers will find much to amuse." --Publish...

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KNUCKLEHEAD

ADAM SMYER

Knucklehead is the only title shortlisted for the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence! "By setting his novel in the '90s, Smyer, who lives in Oakland, has crafted some brutal deja vu. As [protagonist] Marcus reflects on Rodney King, the Million Man March and the Oklahoma City bombing, we think of Freddie Gray, Black Lives Matter and school shootings that have be...

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HAVANA LIBRE

ROBERT ARELLANO

"[An] exquisitely made thriller...A remarkably powerful narrative. The interrogation scene repulses while it grips...but readers are advised to stay with it for a rich reading experience." --Booklist, Starred Review "Arellano's world of clinic doctors, hotel hustlers, secret police, and neighborhood spies is as rich and vibrant a place as I've come across in fiction in a long w...

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