San Diego Noir

LUIS ALBERTO URREA is the author of The Queen of America, a sequel to the best-selling The Hummingbird’s Daughter. He is also the author of the best sellers The Devil’s Highway and Into the Beautiful North. His story in Phoenix Noir won an Edgar Award. Urrea was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and moved to San Diego at the age of five. He spent much of his boyhood in National City and Shelltown.

DON WINSLOW is the author of fourteen novels, including The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Dawn Patrol, and The Gentlemen’s Hour, all set in San Diego. When not writing, he likes driving up and down the Pacific Coast Highway on his quixotic yet noble search for the perfect fish taco. He lives on a small ranch in San Diego County.

Also available from Akashic Books

LOS ANGELES NOIR

edited by Denise Hamilton

360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

^*Winner of Edgar and Southern California Independent Booksellers Association awards; a Los Angeles Times best seller

Brand-new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, Emory Holmes II, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, and others.

“These seventeen very different stories confirm just how many places L.A. has become … Janet Fitch, as usual, operates at a scary level of intensity. Her story, ‘The Method,’ opens with a string of zippy onel-iners that out- Chandler Chandler … I wanted to take my eyes off the page and couldn’t.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

LOS ANGELES NOIR 2: THE CLASSICS

edited by Denise Hamilton

336 pages, trade paperback, $15.95

Classic stories by: Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, Yxta Maya Murray, and others.

“In the 15 tales collected by Denise Hamilton for Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics, we enjoy a guided tour of urban crime in a city that some would call ‘ground zero’ for pulp fiction … Los Angeles Noir 2 offers nothing short of great entertainment for lovers of crime fiction.”

—El Paso Times

BOSTON NOIR

edited by Dennis Lehane

240 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

^*Finalist for Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus awards

Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O’Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, J. Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron.

“In the best of the eleven stories in this outstanding entry in Akashic’s noir series, characters, plot, and setting feed off each other like flames and an arsonist’s accelerant … [T]his anthology shows that noir can thrive where Raymond Chandler has never set foot.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

SAN FRANCISCO NOIR

edited by Peter Maravelis

292 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

Brand-new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Will Christopher Baer, and others.

“Haunting and often surprisingly poignant, these accounts of death, love, and all things pulp fiction will lead you into unexpected corners of a city known to steal people’s hearts.”

—7x7

SAN FRANCISCO NOIR 2 THE CLASSICS

edited by Peter Maravelis