DENISE BUFFA is a native of Brooklyn. A New York Post reporter for more than a decade, she has covered numerous beats, including Brooklyn courts. She is currently penning Mushy & Mama, a book about the life and times of her mastiff, Mushy. A former Bay Ridge babe, she currently resides with her new dog, Baci, in Harlem. She has a not-so-secret weapon when chasing down stories on New York City streets: her accent!
CONSTANCE CASEY, who was a New York City Parks Department gardener for five years, is a member of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden board of trustees, and a judge in The Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest. She writes about gardening and natural history for the online magazine Slate. In a former, more indoor life she was an editor at the San Jose Mercury News and the Washington Post, then a national correspondent for Newhouse News Service.
REED FARREL COLEMAN was born and raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The James Deans, the third installment of his Brooklyn-based Moe Prager mystery series, won the Shamus, Barry, and Anthony awards. The novel was also nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, and Gumshoe awards. He is the editor of Hardboiled Brooklyn and his short stories have also appeared in Wall Street Noir and Dublin Noir.
AILEEN GALLAGHER is an editor at New York magazine’s website, nymag.com. She was a founding editor of the online magazine The Black Table and has written for the New York Law Journal, New York Post, New York Press, Bust, Maxim, and New York magazine. A native of suburban Philadelphia, she resides joyously in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
DENNIS HAWKINS, formerly Chief of Rackets, retired from the Brooklyn district attorney’s office on April 1, 2001. Since then he has taught, written, and circumnavigated the globe as an anticorruption advisor. He is currently working on a novel about the down and dirty office politics of a large, urban prosecutor’s office.
ROBERT KNIGHTLY spent his youth in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, leaving for Manhattan at the tender age of forty-four. During his Brooklyn years, he was an NYPD patrol officer and sergeant in the Brooklyn North neighborhoods of Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Greene–Clinton Hill, and Williamsburg. He has published three stories in the Akashic Noir Series, one of which was selected for Best American Mystery Stories 2007.
JESS KORMAN grew up in Brooklyn and left at age twelve. He later wrote plays for off-Broadway and regional theater, comedy for TV shows, and he did time as a creative director on Madison Avenue. His pieces have appeared in National Lampoon and other publications. His one-man shows as a satirical singer-songwriter-pianist are often performed in Greenwich Village.
ROBERT LEUCI worked for twenty years as an NYPD detective assigned to narcotics and organized crime. Many of those years were spent working the streets of Brooklyn. Since retirement, he has published six novels and one memoir, as well as various TV scripts, book reviews, and magazine pieces. Leuci is currently an adjunct professor in the English department of the University of Rhode Island.
ERROL LOUIS has been a columnist for the New York Daily News since June 2004. He lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife, Juanita Scarlett, and their son, Noah Louis. His father, Edward Louis, is a retired NYPD inspector whose assignments included a stint as commanding officer of the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville.
TIM MCLOUGHLIN is the editor of the multiple–award winning anthology Brooklyn Noir and its companion volume, Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics. His novel, Heart of the Old Country, won Italy’s Premio Penne award and is the basis for the Serenade Films motion picture The Narrows. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Confrontation, A Public Space, and the Brooklyn Rail, as well as the anthologies The Subway Chronicles, New Orleans Noir, and Best American Mystery Stories 2005.
PATRICIA MULCAHY has lived in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, for almost twenty years, and has owned the coffee bar and arts space Tillie’s of Brooklyn in Fort Greene since 1997. A former book publisher, she edited crime writers such as Michael Connelly and James Lee Burke. She now operates an editorial consulting company called Brooklyn Books, and is at work on a novel.
CHRISTOPHER MUSELLA has been living and writing in Brooklyn with his wife Anne (and now their daughter Gianna) for more than twelve years.
C.J.SULLIVAN has worked as an associate court clerk in the Brooklyn Supreme Court since 1994. He is also a crime reporter for the New York Post and the author of Wild Tales from the Police Blotter.
KIM SYKES is an actress and writer who regrets not living in Brooklyn. She is also a contributor to Queens Noir and is at work on her first novel.
ROSEMARIE YU is a New York–based writer. She is a former legal journalist and a graduate of the New York University School of Law.
Also available from the Akashic Books Noir Series
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 and Pushcart Prize
Brand new stories by: Pete Hamill, Robert Knightly, Arthur Nersesian, Maggie Estep, Nelson George, Sidney Offit, Ken Bruen, and others.
“Brooklyn Noir is 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.”
—Laura Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Shamus awards
BROOKLYN NOIR 2: THE CLASSICS
edited by Tim McLoughlin
316 pages, trade paperback, $15.95
Stories by: H.P. Lovecraft, Lawrence Block, Donald E. Westlake, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Carolyn Wheat, Thomas Wolfe, Hubert Selby, Jr., Stanley Ellin, Gilbert Sorrentino, Maggie Estep, Irwin Shaw, and Salvatore La Puma.
“An assortment of the borough’s crime-fiction masterminds get down to the gritty details in this entertaining collection of chilling stories.”
—BKLYN magazine
“This collection of reprints is packed full of literary treats.”
—Mystery Scene magazine
MANHATTAN NOIR
edited by Lawrence Block
260 pages, trade paperback original, $14.95
Brand new stories by: Jeffery Deaver, Robert Knightly, Lawrence Block, Liz Martínez, Thomas H. Cook, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, and others.
“A pleasing variety of Manhattan neighborhoods come to life in Block’s solid anthology … the writing is of a high order and a nice mix of styles.”
—Publishers Weekly
BRONX NOIR
edited by S.J. Rozan
368 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by: Jerome Charyn, Lawrence Block, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Kevin Baker, Abraham Rodriguez, and others.
“Akashic’s latest city-themed crime anthology successfully captures the immense diversity of the Bronx, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale … Rozan, herself a contributor, has put together one of the series’ better entries.”
—Publishers Weekly
QUEENS NOIR
edited by Robert Knightly
342 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by: Denis Hamill, Alan Gordon, Maggie Estep, Tori Carrington, Joseph Guglielmelli, Kim Sykes, Jillian Abbott, and others.
“Keen Queensian eyes will find that no mistakes were made in capturing the borough, form its subway lines to its edgy sensibility.”
—Queens Times Ledger
WALL STREET NOIR
edited by Peter Spiegelman
382 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by: John Burdett, Henry Blodget, Peter Blauner, Megan Abbott, Jason Starr, Lauren Sanders, Reed Farrel Coleman, and others.
“Spiegelman, the ideal editor for the Wall Street entry in Akashic’s noir anthology series, assembles a stellar cast of seventeen crim
e genre luminaries, many with financial backgrounds.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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