USA Noir
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
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Dennis Lehane ; George Pelecanos ; Susan Straight
- “All
- the
- heavy
- hitters,
- from
- Michael
- Connelly
- in
- Los
- Angeles
- to
- Joyce
- Carol
- Oates
- in
- suburban
- New
- Jersey
- .
- .
- .
- an
- important
- anthology.”—The
- New
- York
- Times
- Book
- Review
- (Editors’
- Choice)Features
- Dennis
- Lehane’s
- story
- “Animal
- Rescue,”
- the
- inspiration
- for
- the
- movie
- The
- Drop
- starring
- Tom
- Hardy.Launched
- with
- the
- summer
- 2004
- award-winning
- bestseller
- Brooklyn
- Noir,
- the
- groundbreaking
- Akashic
- Noir
- series
- now
- includes
- over
- sixty
- volumes
- and
- counting.
- The
- stories
- in
- USA
- Noir
- “represent
- the
- best
- of
- the
- U.S.-based
- anthologies,
- and
- the
- list
- of
- contributors
- include
- virtually
- anyone
- who’s
- made
- the
- best-seller
- list
- with
- a
- work
- of
- crime
- fiction
- in
- the
- last
- decade
- .
- .
- .
- a
- must-have
- anthology”
- (Booklist,
- starred
- review).Featuring
- stories
- by:
- Dennis
- Lehane,
- Don
- Winslow,
- Michael
- Connelly,
- George
- Pelecanos,
- Susan
- Straight,
- Jonathan
- Safran
- Foer,
- Laura
- Lippman,
- Pete
- Hamill,
- Joyce
- Carol
- Oates,
- Lee
- Child,
- T.
- Jefferson
- Parker,
- Lawrence
- Block,
- Terrance
- Hayes,
- Jerome
- Charyn,
- Jeffery
- Deaver,
- Maggie
- Estep,
- Bayo
- Ojikutu,
- Tim
- McLoughlin,
- Barbara
- DeMarco-Barrett,
- Reed
- Farrel
- Coleman,
- Megan
- Abbott,
- Elyssa
- East,
- James
- W.
- Hall,
- J.
- Malcolm
- Garcia,
- Julie
- Smith,
- Joseph
- Bruchac,
- Pir
- Rothenberg,
- Luis
- Alberto
- Urrea,
- Domenic
- Stansberry,
- John
- O’Brien,
- S.J.
- Rozan,
- Asali
- Solomon,
- William
- Kent
- Krueger,
- Tim
- Broderick,
- Bharti
- Kirchner,
- Karen
- Karbo,
- and
- Lisa
- Sandlin.One
- of
- Zoom
- Street
- Magazine’s
- Favorite
- Books
- of
- 2014
One
- of
- “100
- Best
- Books
- for
- Readers
- Young
- and
- Old,”
- HispanicBusiness.com“Perhaps
- the
- single
- most
- impressive
- feature
- of
- the
- collection
- is
- its
- range
- of
- voices,
- from
- Joyce
- Carol
- Oates’
- faux
- innocent
- young
- family
- to
- Megan
- Abbott’s
- impressionable
- high
- school
- kids
- to
- the
- chorus
- of
- peremptory
- voices
- S.J.
- Rozan
- plants
- in
- a
- haunted
- thief’s
- head.
- Eat
- your
- heart
- out,
- Walt
- Whitman:
- These
- are
- the
- folks
- who
- hear
- America
- singing,
- and
- moaning
- and
- screaming.”—Kirkus Reviews
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