Twin Cities Noir (30 page)

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ANHATTAN
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OIR

edited by Lawrence Block

257 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95

Brand new stories by:
Jeffery Deaver, Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, Thomas H. Cook, Jim Fusilli, Robert Knightly, John Lutz, Liz Martínez, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, C.J. Sullivan, and Xu Xi.

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AWRENCE
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LOCK
has won most of the major mystery awards, and has been called the quintes-has quintes-sentialquintes-city’s sential New York writer, although he insists the city’s far too big to have a quintessential writer. His series characters—Matthew Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, Chip Harrison, and Keller—all live in Manhattan; like their cre- cre-ator,cre-else. ator, they wouldn’t really be happy anywhere else.

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AN
F
RANCISCO
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OIR

edited by Peter Maravelis

292 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95

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.

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ALTIMORE
N
OIR
edited by Laura Lippman

298 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95

Brand new stories by:
David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart.

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