Dennis Lehane steps up to the plate as editor and presents a scintillating collection of deep, dark fiction.

"Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys . . . [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has . . . left people feeling crushed." —New York Times Crime Fiction

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Scandinavian writing has been dominating the global crime fiction landscape, and this volume offers a delicious, devious sampling.

"The latest entry in the publisher's series (41 and counting) proves the resilience of, and market for, these locale noirs. Editor Bo Tao Michaëlis, a Danish book critic, is both scholarly and insightful in the introduction and outlines how the stories reflect the greed

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Presents a collection of crime and noir stories set in Haiti.

“A sobering experience . . . The power of this collection comes from the voices of these authors, voices suffused with rage, despair, and madness.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
This anthology, with stories set in different prisons across the US, presents an absolutely new perspective on prison literature. From a killer’s confession to a desire for redemption, from stories of...

Edited by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller, this is a collection of stories that reveals all the dark complexities of this increasingly prominent city. In the wake of other settings in the popular Akashic Noir Series comes the latest California installment, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Czar of Noir Eddie Muller, this volume will shock, titillate, provoke, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint....

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, Accra joins Lagos, Nairobi, Marrakech, and Addis Ababa in representing the African continent in the Noir Series arena. Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales—ones involving or...

"Cleveland is a working-class town, though its great institutions were founded by twentieth-century robber barons and magnates . . . It's this mix of the wealthy and the working class that makes this city--an urban center of brick and girders surrounded by verdant suburbs--a perfect backdrop for lawlessness. Cleveland has certainly seen its share of high-profile crime. Eliot Ness, Cleveland's director of public safety in the 1930s, hunted unsuccessfully...