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Overview: Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
Brand-new stories by: John Jodzio, Tom Kaczynski, Peter Schilling Jr., David Housewright, Steve Thayer, Judith Guest, Mary Logue, Bruce Rubenstein, K.J. Erickson, William Kent Krueger, Ellen Hart, Brad Zellar, Mary Sharratt, Pete Hautman, Larry Millett, Quinton Skinner, Gary Bush, and Chris Everheart.
From the introduction by Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz:
St. Paul was originally called Pig’s Eye’s Landing and was named after Pig’s Eye Parrant–trapper, moonshiner, and proprietor of the most popular drinking establishment on the Mississippi. Traders, river rats, missionaries, soldiers, land speculators, fur trappers, and Indian agents congregated in his establishment and made their deals. When Minnesota became a territory in 1849, the town leaders, realizing that a place called Pig’s Eye might not inspire civic confidence, changed the name to St. Paul, after the largest church in the city . . .
Across the river, Minneapolis has its own sordid story. By the turn of the twentieth century it was considered one of the most crooked cities in the nation. Mayor Albert Alonzo Ames, with the assistance of the chief of police, his brother Fred, ran a city so corrupt that according to Lincoln Steffans its ”deliberateness, invention, and avarice has never been equaled.” As recently as the mid-’90s, Minneapolis was called ”Murderopolis” due to a rash of killings that occurred over a long hot summer . . . Every city has its share of crime, but what makes the Twin Cities unique may be that we have more than our share of good writers to chronicle it. They are homegrown and they know the territory–how the cities look from the inside, out . . .
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller > Anthology (Various Authors) > City Life > Noir
Book contains the following stories:-
► Mai-Nu’s Window by DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT – Set In Frogtown (St. Paul)
► Smoke Got in My Eyes by BRUCE RUBENSTEIN – Set In North End (St. Paul)
► Noir Neige by K.J. ERICKSON – Set In Near North (Minneapolis)
► Bums by WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER – Set In West Side (St. Paul)
► Blind Sided by ELLEN HART – Set In Uptown (Minneapolis)
► Better Luck Next Time by BRAD ZELLAR – Set In Columbia Heights (Minneapolis)
► Taking the Bullets Out by MARY SHARRATT – Set In Cedar-Riverside (Minneapolis)
► The Guy by PETE HAUTMAN – Set In Linden Hills (Minneapolis)
► The Brewer’s Son by LARRY MILLETT – Set In West 7th-Fort Road (St. Paul)
► Loophole by QUINTON SKINNER – Set In Downtown (Minneapolis)
► Hi, I’m God by STEVE THAYER – Set In Duluth (Up North)
► Eminent Domain by JUDITH GUEST – Set In Edina (Minneapolis)
► Blasted by MARY LOGUE – Set In Kenwood (Minneapolis)
► If You Harm Us by GARY BUSH – Set In Summit-University (St. Paul)
► Chili Dog by CHRIS EVERHEART – Set In Downtown (St. Paul)
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