New Orleans Noir (27 page)

E
RIC
O
VERMYER’S
plays include
On the Verge, Native Speech, In a Pig’s Valise, In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe, The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin,
and
Dark Rapture.
At one point he had a home in the Faubourg Marigny on Kerlerec Street, and he has been a “near” Orleanian for twenty years.

J
ERI
C
AIN ROSSI
is the author of
Angel with a Criminal Kiss
(Creation Books) and
Red Wine Moan
(Manic D Press). Since Katrina, she has resided in San Francisco, but she left her heart on the wild streets of New Orleans. She dedicates her story in this collection to the loving memories of Jason and Tommy, two beauties who will always be young, sipping cocktails on Decatur Street.

K
ALAMU
Y
A SALAAM
is a New Orleans–based editor, writer, filmmaker, and teacher. He is director of Listen to the People, a New Orleans oral history project; moderator of e-Drum, a listserv for black writers; and comoderator, with his son Mtume, of Breath of Life, a black music website. Salaam is also the digital video instructor and the codirector of Students at the Center, a writing-based program in the New Orleans public school system.

J
ULIE
S
MITH
is the Edgar Award–winning author of two detective series set in New Orleans. A former reporter for the
New Orleans Times-Picayune
and the
San Francisco Chronicle,
she lives in the Faubourg Marigny section of New Orleans, which is much funkier than it sounds.

M
AUREEN
T
AN
is the author of the critically acclaimed Jane Nichols suspense novels. Her focus on strong, independent female protagonists and Southern locales continues in
A Perfect Cover
—set in the Vietnamese community in New Orleans—and in her most recent book,
Too Close to Home
.

J
ERVEY
T
ERVALON
was born in New Orleans and raised in Los Angeles. He has written two novels set in New Orleans,
Dead Above Ground
and
Lita
. He’s almost obsessed with Creole Cream Cheese, stuffed Mirliton (militon), and good grits.

O
LYMPIA
V
ERNON
is the author of three critically acclaimed novels published by Grove Atlantic. Her first,
Eden
, was written in Uptown New Orleans and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 2006,
A Killing in This Town
was published to rave reviews. Vernon is a Louisiana native and is now the Hallie Brown Ford Chair at Willamette University.

C
HRISTINE
W
ILTZ
has written five books: a detective trilogy—
The Killing Circle, A Diamond Before You Die,
and
The Emerald Lizard
; a novel,
Glass House;
and a biography,
The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld.
All of her books are set in New Orleans, where she was born and still lives.

Also available from the Akashic Books Noir Series

D.C. NOIR
edited by George

304 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95

Brand new stories by:
George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, James Grady, Kenji Jasper, Jim Beane, Ruben Castaneda, Robert Wisdom, James Patton, Norman Kelley, Jennifer Howard, Jim Fusilli, Richard Currey, Lester Irby, Quintin Peterson, Robert Andrews, and David Slater.

G
EORGE
P
ELECANOS
is a screenwriter, independent-indepen-and dent-film producer, award-winning journalist, and the author of the bestselling series of Derek Strange novels set in and around Washington, D.c., where he lives with his wife and children.

BROOKLYN NOIR
edited by Tim McLoughlin

350 pages, a trade paperback original, $15.95

*Winner of S
HAMUS
A
WARD
, A
NTHONY
A
WARD
, R
OBERT
L. F
ISH
M
EMORIAL
A
WARD
; Finalist for E
DGAR
A
WARD
, P
USHCART
P
RIZE

Twenty brand new crime stories from New York’s punchiest borough.

Contributors include: Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Maggie Estep, Nelson George, Neal Pollack, Sidney Offit, Ken Bruen, and others.

“
Brooklyn Noir
is such a stunningly perfect combination that you can’t believe you haven’t read an anthology like this before. But trust me—you haven’t. Story after story is a revelation, filled with the requisite sense of place, but also the perfect twists that crime stories demand. The writing is flat-out superb, filled with lines that will sing in your head for a long time to come.”

—Laura Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Shamus awards

MIAMI NOIR
edited by Les Standiford
356 pages, trade paperback, $15.95

Brand new stories by:
James W. Hall, Barbara Parker, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Corcoran, Christine Kling, George Tucker, Kevin Allen, Anthony Dale Gagliano, David Beaty, Vicki Hendricks, John Bond, Preston Allen, Lynne Barrett, and Jeffrey Wehr.

“Variety, familiarity, mood and tone, and the occasional gem of a