| Description |
293 pages : map ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Akashic noir series.
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| Contents |
Part I: Strangers in the night. Sunrise / Janet Fitch -- The guest / Eric Beetner -- A cold girl / Kelly Shire -- Part II: Little white lies. VIP check-in / Michael Craft -- The water holds you still / Barbara DeMarco-Barrett -- The expendables / Rob Roberge -- Part III: Everything happens to me. The stand-in / J.D. Horn -- The ankle of Anza / Eduardo Santiago -- Everything drains and disappears / Rob Bowman -- A career spent disappointing people / Tod Goldberg -- Part IV: Ill wind. Specters / T. Jefferson Parker -- Octagon girl / Chris J. Bahsen -- The loop trail / Ken Layne -- The salt calls us back / Alex Espinoza. |
| Summary |
"The best noir writers make us feel the heat of the sun, the touch of a lover. Setting can be gritty but can also be sublime, no longer relegated to urban locales and seedy hotel rooms but also mansions and swimming pools. Hence, Palm Springs, which may seem like an odd setting for a collection of dark short stories--it's so sunny and bright here. The quality of light is unlike anywhere else, and with an average of three hundred sunny days a year, what could go wrong?... The stories in this collection come on like the wicked dust storms common to the area. More than half are by writers who live here full-time; all have homes in Southern California. They know this place in ways visitors and outsiders never will. These are not stories you'll read in the glossy coffee-table books that feature Palm Springs's good life. There is indeed a lush life to be found here, but for the characters in these stories, it's often just out of reach." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Palm Springs (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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Noir fiction.
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| Added Author |
DeMarco-Barrett, Barbara, editor, author.
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| ISBN |
9781617759284 (paperback) |
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1617759287 (paperback) |
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