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Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Noir Anthologies) by Tim McLoughlin; Pearl Abraham; Nicole Blackman; Ken Bruen; Maggie Estep; Nelson George; Luciano Guerriero; Pete Hamill; Kenji Jasper; Norman Kelley; Robert Knightly; Lou Manfredo; Adam Mansbach; Ellen Miller; Thomas Morrissey; Arthur Nersesian; Chris Niles; Sidney Offit; Neal Pollack; C.J. Sullivan is a travel available to read on EtoBox.
What is Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Noir Anthologies) about?
From Publishers WeeklyIn McLoughlin's entertaining if uneven anthology of 19 brand new hard-boiled and twisted tales, each set in a different Brooklyn neighborhood, the best way to get to know New York City's most diverse borough is either to be dead or to cause someone else to assume that state in as grisly a manner as possible. This might be achieved via the old school method—for instance, with a nickel-plated revolver and a heart full of malice, as in "The Book Signing," Pete Hamill's lyrical opener about a Park Slope "ex-pat" writer who revisits his now-gentrified neighborhood only to step inadvertently into a past he'd long thought buried and forgotten. Or death might arrive in a new-fangled mode, with a scalpel and an Internet connection, as in Arthur Nersesian's compelling "Hunter/ Trapper," in which a Brooklyn Heights Web stalker makes the serious mistake of failing to secure his stalkee securely before ravishment. If a few weaker entries exploit the borough as an arbitrary setting for standard cops-and-robbers fare, the best stories concern people in the present coming to terms with the past. In McLoughlin's evocative "When All This Was Bay Ridge," a Sunset Park cop's son
Who reads Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Noir Anthologies)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Tim McLoughlin; Pearl Abraham; Nicole Blackman; Ken Bruen; Maggie Estep; Nelson George; Luciano Guerriero; Pete Hamill; Kenji Jasper; Norman Kelley; Robert Knightly; Lou Manfredo; Adam Mansbach; Ellen Miller; Thomas Morrissey; Arthur Nersesian; Chris Niles; Sidney Offit; Neal Pollack; C.J. Sullivan
- Publisher
- Akashic Books, Ltd.
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781936070152
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories
- Rating
- 3.42 / 5 (310 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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