Neal Pollack

C.J. SULLIVAN’S idol growing up was Chicago Cub legend Billy Williams. He works by day as a Court Clerk in Brooklyn Supreme and by night as a reporter for the New York Post. The two loves in his life are his twin girls: Luisa Marie and Olivia Kathleen Sullivan. He lives in New York City.

CLAIRE ZULKEY was born in Evanston, Illinois, and lives in Chicago. She has contributed to the Mississippi Review and Chicago Magazine, and published a book of literary humor titled Girls! Girls! Girls! More of her writing can be found on her website, Zulkey.com. Whatever crimes she has committed are not very interesting.

Also available from Akashic Books

BROOKLYN NOIR

edited by Tim McLoughlin

350 pages, a trade paperback original, $15.95, ISBN: 1-888451-58-0

*Finalist stories for EDGAR AWARD, PUSHCART PRIZE, and SHAMUS AWARD

Twenty brand new crime stories from New York’s punchiest borough. Contributors include: Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Maggie Estep, Nelson George, Neal Pollack, 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

309 pages, trade paperback, $15.95, ISBN: 1-888451-76-9

Brooklyn Noir is back with a vengeance, this time with masters of yore mixing with the young blood: H.P. Lovecraft, Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Irwin Shaw, Carolyn Wheat, Thomas Wolfe, Hubert Selby, Stanley Ellin, Gilbert Sorrentino, Maggie Estep, and Salvatore La Puma.

SAN FRANCISCO NOIR

edited by Peter Maravelis

325 pages, a trade paperback original, $15.95, ISBN: 1-888451-91-2

Brand new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro Murguía, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry.

San Francisco Noir lashes out with hard-biting tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic “Baghdad by the Bay.” Desperation, transgression, and madness fuel these tales celebrating San Francisco’s criminal heritage.

SOUTHLAND by Nina Revoyr

348 pages, a trade paperback original, $15.95, ISBN: 1-888451-41-6

*Winner of a LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD & FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD

*EDGAR AWARD finalist

“If Oprah still had her book club, this novel likely would be at the top of her list

With prose that is beautiful, precise, but never pretentious

”—Booklist

“Southland merges elements of literature and social history with the propulsive drive of a mystery, while evoking Southern California as a character, a key player in the tale. Such aesthetics have motivated other Southland writers, most notably Walter Mosley.”

—Los Angeles Times

ADIOS MUCHACHOS by Daniel Chavarría

245 pages, a trade paperback original, $13.95, ISBN: 1-888451-16-5

*Winner of the EDGAR AWARD

“Out of the mystery wrapped in an enigma that, over the last forty years, has been Cuba for the U.S., comes a Uruguayan voice so cheerful, a face so laughing, and a mind so deviously optimistic that we can only hope this is but the beginning of a flood of Latin America’s indomitable novelists, playwrights, storytellers. Welcome, Daniel Chavarría.”

—Donald Westlake, author of Trust Me on This

HAIRSTYLES OF THE DAMNED

by Joe Meno

290 pages, a trade paperback original, $13.95, ISBN: 1-888451-70-X

*PUNK PLANET BOOKS, a BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PROGRAM selection

“Joe Meno writes with the energy, honesty, and emotional impact of the best punk rock. From the opening sentence to the very last word, Hairstyles of the Damned held me in his grip.”

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