Dublin Noir (23 page)

JIM
FUSILLI
is the author of the award-winning Terry Orr series, which includes
Hard, Hard City,
winner of the Gumshoe Award for Best Novel of 2004, as well as
Closing Time, A Well-Known Secret,
and
Tribeca Blues.
He also writes for
The Wall Street Journal
and is a contributor to National Public Radio’s
All Things Considered.

PATRICK
J. LAMBE
lives in New Jersey, where he works as a telephone technician and writes crime stories. Third-generation Irish, English was his grandparent’s second language and he hopes to one day stride the streets of Dublin, a city that lives large in his imagination as his ancestrial homeland.

LAURA
LIPPMAN
is a Baltimore writer best known for her series about Baltimore-based P.I. Tess Monaghan. She has also written two stand-alone novels,
Every Secret Thing
and
To the Power of Three.
A
Baltimore Sun
reporter for twelve years, she has written for the
New York Times
, the
Washington Post,
and Slate.com. Her work has won virtually all the major prizes given to U.S. crime writers, including the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Shamus, and Nero Wolfe.

CRAIG
McDONALD
was a contributor to the 2004
New York Times
nonfiction bestseller
Secrets of the Code
. His short stories and articles have appeared in the
Mississippi Review
and the Australia-based
Crime Factory
. Another short story won the 2005
Philadelphia City Paper
mystery fiction contest. He is also the author of
Art in the Blood
, a collection of interviews conducted with twenty top crime fiction writers.

PAT
MULLAN
was born in Ireland and has lived in England, Canada, and the U.S.A. Formerly a banker, he now lives in Connemara, in the west of Ireland. He is the author of two novels,
The Circle of Sodom
and
Blood Red Square
. His poetry and other work appears frequently in The Dublin Writers’ Workshop (www.dublinwriters.org). For more information, visit him at
www.patmullan.com

GARY
PHILLIPS’S
work has been influenced by the likes of Ralph Ellison, Rod Serling, and Stan Lee. With Jervey Tervalon, he coedited the acclaimed anthology
The Cocaine Chronicles
for Akashic Books. His story in this anthology is a prequel in the life of protagonist Zelmont Raines who previously appeared in the crime novel,
The Jook.
And taking his cues from Zelmont, Phillips is busy hustling his next writing gig.

JOHN
RICKARDS
is the twenty-seven-year-old author of
Winter’s End
and
The Touch of Ghosts.
He writes full-time and lives in the UK. He drinks an obscene amount of Guinness.

PETER
SPIEGELMAN
is the Shamus Award–winning author of
Black Maps
and
Death’s Little Helpers
, both of which feature private investigator John March. He currently resides in Connecticut, where he is at work on another March novel.

JASON
STARR
is the author of seven noir crime novels, which are published in ten languages. His novel
Tough Luck
was an Anthony Award finalist and a Barry Award winner. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.

OLEN
STEINHAUER
has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Edgar and the Dagger. His most recent novel is
36 Yalta Boulevard
. He lives in Budapest.

DUANE
SWIERCZYNSKI’S
recent crime thriller
The Wheelman
features a mute Irish getaway driver named Lennon. As his last name indicates, he’s not exactly Irish, but his wife and kids are. And that’s good enough for him. His other books include
Secret Dead Men
and
The Big Book O’ Beer.
Visit him at
www.duaneswierczynski.com
.

CHARLIE
STELLA
is a former “knockaround guy” who spent eighteen years working the streets of New York while trying to break into the crime fiction business. He’s done everything from window cleaning (for ten years) on scaffolds high atop New York City skyscrapers to word processing to collecting for loansharks and running a bookmaking office. He’s not as cute as Rocky Balboa, but he has a beautiful wife and doggie.

SARAH
WEINMAN
is the crime fiction columnist for the
Baltimore Sun
and the editor of the literary blog “Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind.” Her work has appeared in many venues, including the
Washington Post
, the
Globe and Mail,
and the
Philadelphia City Paper.
“Hen Night” was inspired by a trip to Dublin during the 2003 Bank Holiday weekend, after which she vowed never to go back to Temple Bar.

KEVIN
WIGNALL
studied Politics & International Relations at Lancaster and is a member of Chatham House, the institute for international affairs in London. His novels include
People Die
and
For the Dogs
, and he’s a regular contributor of short stories to
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
His story for this collection is, he tells us, semi-autobiographical, though he refuses to elaborate further.