The Aloha State enters the Akashic Noir Series arena with a riveting collection, exploring shadows and corners of Honolulu that will never be found in a tourist brochure. Locations mentioned include Waikiki, Kahlihi, Kaka'ako, Ala Wai, Diamond Head, Punahou, Downtown, Kapalama, Ala Moana, Chinatown, Manoa, Tantalus, and Koko Head.

"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. In "Milwaukee Noir", a city of manufacturers and booze, as well as growing immigrant community, makes a perfect grist for the Noir Series mill."--back cover.

"Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales--ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins--is woven into the fabric of the city's everyday life... Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation's soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence,...

"Atlanta has its share, maybe more than its share, of prosperity. But wealth is no safeguard against peril ... Creepy as well as dark, grim in outlook ... Hints of the supernatural may make these tales ... appealing to lovers of ghost stories."--Kirkus Reviews "These stories, most of them by relative unknowns, offer plenty of human interest ... All the tales have a Southern feel." --Publishers Weekly. Jones, author of Leaving Atlanta, returns to the...

What marks life in Addis Ababa are the starkly different realities coexisting in one place. It's a growing city taking shape beneath the fraught weight of history, myth, and memory. It is a heady mix. It can also be disorienting, and it is in this space that the stories of Addis Ababa Noir reside... These are not gentle stories. They cross into forbidden territories and traverse the damaged terrain of the human heart. The characters in these pages...

"Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. The best-selling original Miami Noir, edited by Les Standiford and published in 2006, featured brand-new stories from some of the city's best living writers. Now, in Miami Noir: The Classics, Standiford has turned his eye toward the outstanding...