title: Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Noir Anthologies)
author: Tim McLoughlin
description: In McLoughlin's entertaining if uneven anthology of 19 brand new hard-boiled and twisted tales, each set in a different Brooklyn neighborhood, the best way to get to know New York City's most diverse borough is either to be dead or to cause someone else to assume that state in as grisly a manner as possible. This might be achieved via the old school method&mdash;for instance, with a nickel-plated revolver and a heart full of malice, as in "The Book Signing," Pete Hamill's lyrical opener about a Park Slope "ex-pat" writer who revisits his now-gentrified neighborhood only to step inadvertently into a past he'd long thought buried and forgotten. Or death might arrive in a new-fangled mode, with a scalpel and an Internet connection, as in Arthur Nersesian's compelling "Hunter/ Trapper," in which a Brooklyn Heights Web stalker makes the serious mistake of failing to secure his stalkee securely before ravishment. If a few weaker entries exploit the borough as an arbitrary setting for standard cops-and-robbers fare, the best stories concern people in the present coming to terms with the past. In McLoughlin's evocative "When All This Was Bay Ridge," a Sunset Park cop's son struggles with his dead father's secret history, while Maggie Estep's "Triple Harrison," depicting a squatter who tends a broken-down race horse in the abandoned wastes of East New York, takes the prize as the book's weirdest tale. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  BOSTON NOIR
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  EDITED BY DENNIS LEHANE
  
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  This collection is comprised of works of fiction. All names, characters,
  places, and incidents are the product of the authors' imaginations. Any
  resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  Published by Akashic Books
  
  (c) 2009 Akashic Books
  
  Series concept by Tim McLoughlin and Johnny Temple
  
  Boston map by Sohrab Habibion
  
  ISBN: 978-1-933354-91-0
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2009922932
  
  All rights reserved
  
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  ALSO IN THE AKASHIC NOIR SERIES:
  
  Baltimore Noir, edited by Laura Lippman
  
  Bronx Noir, edited by S.J. Rozan
  
  Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin
  
  Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Tim McLoughlin
  
  Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth  
  edited by Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock
  
  Chicago Noir, edited by Neal Pollack
  
  D.C. 