Noir

“Noir land is always smoke and mirrors, and for those who like entering that world, be assured that Murphy is already at work on his next book.”

It’s been 15 years since Akashic Books gave us Los Angeles Noir, a collection of crime stories set around the vast basin from Mulholland Drive to Los Feliz, from Pacific Palisades to Belmo

“a stunning tour-de-force . . . that will surely set a new benchmark for graphic novels and what they can achieve in a literary context.”

“A roller coaster ride that’s filled with loads of suspense, mystery, and steamy sexiness.”

“these 13 stories will ‘take you for a ride.’”

Akashic Books deserves kudos for their fine service to noir.

"Dark, bloody, and outrageously comical . . ."

Richard Kadrey’s seventh novel in his urban fantasy Sandman Slim series puts his protagonist, James Stark, right into the thick of a yet another possible end of the world event: the attempted murde

“A book you will not forget. A powerful, ingenious piece of crime noir.”

“. . . rediscover why Dashiell Hammett was the peerless master of crime fiction in all its dark and bloody glory.”

“From an excellent premise, Mr.

“Noir is not easy to write—and nearly impossible to do successfully in the first-person POV— especially when you know from the very first ‘I’ that the hero(ine) will survive, strangling