{"product_id":"usa-noir-best-of-the-akashic-noir-series","title":"USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series","description":"New York Times Editors Choice  Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick  Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Book Blog  Included in Zoom Street Magazines Summer Reading (Mysteries\/Noir) Roundup  One of \"100 Best Books for Readers Young and Old \" HispanicBusiness.com  \"Readers will be hard put to find a better collection of short stories in any genre.\" --Publishers Weekly (starred review)  \"A must read for mystery fans  not just devotees of Akashics Noir series  this anthology serves as both an introduction for newcomers and a greatest-hits package for regular readers of the series… There isnt a weak story in the collection…Strongly recommended for readers who enjoy mysteries published by Hard Case Crime  as well as for fans of police procedurals.\" --Library Journal (starred review)  \"The 37 stories in this collection represent the best of the U.S.-based anthologies  and the list of contributors include virtually anyone whos made the best-seller list with a work of crime fiction in the last decade…a must-have anthology.\" --Booklist (starred review)  \"Its hard to imagine how the present anthology could be topped for sheer marquee appeal…Perhaps the single most impressive feature of the collection is its range of voices  from Joyce Carol Oates faux innocent young family to Megan Abbotts impressionable high school kids to the chorus of peremptory voices S.J. Rozan plants in a haunted thiefs head. Eat your heart out  Walt Whitman: These are the folks who hear America singing  and moaning and screaming.\" --Kirkus Reviews  \"All the heavy hitters…came out for USA Noir…an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple.\" --New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)  \"This is  without question  a must-have collection that serves equally well as an introduction to each of the authors as it does the Noir series itself. Regardless if you read the stories in the order presented  or go directly to those by some of your favorites  youll find USA Noir on your nightstand or reading table for many nights.\" --Bookgasm  \"So  thanks a million to antho editor and Akashic Books head honcho Johnny Temple for doing such a crackerjack job of overloading my schedule with these dark and dirty pleasures.\" --Austin Chronicle  \"For Christmas  someone could give me USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series--a good way to offset all the goodwill and frivolity.\" --The Observer (UK)  a Book of the Year  \"For those who prefer their crime closer to home  there is USA Noir  a veritable greatest hits of Akashics long-running  acclaimed noir anthology series  rounding up solid gold blackness of the bleakest and darkest kind…Like Chuck Berry sang  Anything you want  we got right here in the USA.\" --Mystery Scene Magazine  Contributors include: 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 OBrien  S.J. Rozan  Asali Solomon  William Kent Krueger  Tim Broderick  Bharti Kirchner  Karen Karbo  and Lisa Sandlin.  Launched with the summer 2004 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir  the groundbreaking Akashic Noir series now includes over sixty volumes and counting. Each book is comprised of all-new stories  each one set in a distinct location within the city or region of the book. This is the first \"best of\" volume and it powerfully conveys what the series has accomplished.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44662053470261,"sku":"ByrdShop_1617751898","price":90.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1617751898_22171651-725f-482f-8df1-24270c1a810c.jpg?v=1768236268","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/usa-noir-best-of-the-akashic-noir-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}