SALIM BACHI is the Algerian author of Le Chien d’Ulysse, La Kahéna,and Tuez-les tous. Le Chien d’Ulyssewon the Prix Goncourt for best first novel and La Kahénawon the Prix Tropiques in 2004. He has been living in France since 1996.
DIDIER DAENINCKX was born in Saint-Denis, France in 1949. After working for ten years in a printing office, he began to write and created his series hero, Inspector Cadin. He has won many literary awards, including Le Grand Prix de Lit-térature Policière in 1985 for Meurtres pour mémoireand the Paul Féval prize for lifetime accomplishment.
DOAwas born in Lyon and worked as a creator of video games in France and London before finally settling into the dark side of literature. He is the author of several highly acclaimed novels, including Les Fous d’avril,which won the Prix Agostino in 2005, La Ligne de sang,and Citoyens clandestins,which won Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 2007.
JÉRÔME LEROY was born in the north of France. Whether writing short stories that are primarily poetic (La grâce efficace) or a science-fiction novel (Big Sister), Leroy’s work is always adventurous, dark, and visionary.
DOMINIQUE MAINARDis the author of the novels Le grandfakir(2001) and Leur histoire,which won the Prix du Roman FNAC in 2002, the Prix Alain-Fournier in 2003, and was adapted into a film by Alain Corneau in 2005 under the name Les Mots bleus.
LAURENT MARTIN was born in Djibouti in 1966. He is an art historian and archeologist. His first novel, L’Ivresse desdieux,based on a Greek tragedy, won Le Grand Prix de Lit-térature Policière in 2003. His subsequent novels include Latribu des morts, Or noir peur blanche, and Des rives lointaines.
AURÉLIEN MASSONwas born in 1975 and became an editorial assistant for la Série Noire at Gallimard, one of France’s premier publishing houses, in 2002 ; he was promoted to director of the series in 2005.
CHRISTOPHE MERCIERwas born in 1960 and has worked as an editor, literary critic, and translator. He published his first book, Les singes hurleurs sur l’autre rive, in 2003, then Lacantatricein 2005.
PATRICK PÉCHEROTwrote his first novel, Tiuraï,at the age of forty-six. He is the author of eight novels, including Soleil noir, recently published by la Série Noire, an imprint of Gallimard. He won Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 2002 for Les brouillards de la butte.
CHANTAL PELLETIERwrote for theater and film before publishing her first novel, Eros et Thalasso, featuring Inspector Maurice Laice. Her subsequent novels include Le chant duBoucand More Is Less.
JEAN-BERNARD POUYis a celebrated figure in the French literary landscape and the author of many groundbreaking works of fiction. Born in 1946, Pouy is the creator of the highly acclaimed Poulpeseries featuring protagonist Gabriel Lecouvreur. His novel La Belle de Fontenaywon the Trophée 813 and Prix Mystère de la Critique; and La Clef des mensongeswon the Prix Polar in 1989. He also writes for film and radio.
HERVÉ PRUDONwas born in 1950. His novels include Mardi-gris, Le Bourdon, and Nadine Mouque, which won the Prix Louis Guilloux in 1995.
MARC VILLARD has written books revolving around a wide variety of subjects, including dead jazz musicians (La dame estune traînée) and redemption for junkies (La vie d’artiste). But his talent shines brightest, according to Villard, in his short stories.
Also available from the Akashic Books Noir Series
ROME NOIR
edited by Chiara Stangalino edited by Chiara
Stangalino & Maxim Jakubowski
300 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Groundbreaking collection of original stories, all translated from Italian.
Brand new stories by:Antonio Scurati, Carlo Lucarelli, Gianrico Carofiglio, Diego De Silva, Giuseppe Genna, Marcello Fois, Cristiana Danila Formetta, Enrico Franceschini, Boosta, and others.
From Stazione Termini, immortalized by Roberto Rossellini’s films, to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s desolate beach of Ostia, and encompassing famous landmarks and streets, this is the sinister side of the Dolce Vita come to life, a stunning gallery of dark characters, grotesques, and lost souls seeking revenge or redemption in the shadow of the Colosseum, the Spanish Steps, the Vatican, Trastevere, the quiet waters of the Tiber, and Piazza Navona. Rome will never be the same.
ISTANBUL NOIR
edited by Mustafa Ziyalan edited by Mustafa Ziyalan & Amy Spangler 300 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by:Müge Iplikçi, Behçet Çelik, Ismail Güzelsoy, Lydia Lunch, Hikmet Hükümenoglu, Riza Kiraç, Sadik Yemni, Baris Müstecaplioglu, Yasemin Aydinoglu, Feryal Tilmaç, and others.
Comprised of entirely new stories by some of Turkey’s most exciting authors—some still up-and-coming, others well-established and critically acclaimed in their homeland, as well as by a couple of “outsiders” temporarily held hostage in the city’s vice—Istanbul Noirintroduces a whole new breed of talent.
BROOKLYN NOIR
edited by Tim McLoughlin
350 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*Winner of Shamus Award, Anthony Award, Robert L.
Fish Memorial
Award; finalist for Edgar Award, Pushcart Prize.
Brand new stories by:Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Ellen Miller, Nelson George, Nicole Blackman, Sidney Offit, Ken Bruen, and others.
“Brooklyn Noiris such a stunningly perfect combination that you can’t believe you haven’t read an anthology like this before. But trust me—you haven’t. Story after story is a revelation, filled with the requisite sense of place, but also the perfect twists that crime stories demand. The writing is flat-out superb, filled with lines that will sing in your head for a long time to come.”
head for a long time to come.”
—Laura Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Shamus awards
LOS ANGELES NOIR
edited by Denise Hamilton
360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95 *A Los Angeles
Timesbest seller and winner of an Edgar Award.
Brand new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Héctor Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Neal Pollack, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, and others.
“Akashic is making an argument about the universality of noir; it’s sort of flattering, really, and Los Angeles Noir,arriving at last, is a kaleidoscopic collection filled with the ethos of noir pioneers Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
HAVANA NOIR
edited by Achy Obejas
360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by:Leonardo Padura, Pablo Medina, Carolina García-Aguilera, Ena Lucía Portela, Miguel Mejides, Arnaldo Correa, Alex Abella, Moisés Asís, Lea Aschkenas, and others.
“A remarkable collection … Throughout these 18 stories, current and former residents of Havana—some well-known, some previously undiscovered—deliver gritty tales of depravation, depravity, heroic perseverance, revolution, and longing in a city mythical and widely misunderstood.”—Miami Herald
TRINIDAD NOIR
edited by Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason
340 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by:Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Oonya Kempadoo, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, elisha efua bartels, Tiphanie Yanique, Willi Chen, and others.
“For sheer volume, few—anywhere—can beat [V.S.] Naipaul’s prodigious output. But on style, the writers in the Trinidadian canon can meet him eye to eye … Trinidad is no one-trick pony, literarily speaking.”—Coeditor Lisa Allen-Agostini in the New York Times
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