New York’s punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today’s best writers. “ Brooklyn Noir ’s contributors are aware of their surroundings, literal and literary . . . Be cool: This pulp’s got enough juice to keep the margaritas flowing.” ― Village Voice “For fans of noir, for fans of Brooklyn, for fans of just plain old great writing―this is the book for you, or, rather, I should say, you’se.” ―Jonathan Ames, author of  What’s Not to Love?  and  The Extra Man The first installment in Akashic’s groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Pete Hamill, Nelson George, Sidney Offit, Arthur Nersesian, Pearl Abraham, Neal Pollack, Ken Bruen, Ellen Miller, Maggie Estep, Kenji Jasper, Adam Mansbach, C.J. Sullivan, Chris Niles, Norman Kelley, Nicole Blackman, Tim McLoughlin, Thomas Morrissey, Lou Manfredo, Luciano Guerriero, and Robert Knightley. New York’s punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today’s best writers.  Brooklyn Noir  moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn’s historical and criminal largesse, with all of its dark splendor. Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood.  Brooklyn Noir  mixes masters of genre with the best of New York’s literary fiction community―and, of course, leaving room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish, and many other ethnicities―in the most diverse urban location on the planet. It's all Brooklyn--Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach, Red Hook and Crown Heights--in this atmospheric collection of noir tales. The sound is right, too, from the understated staccato of old lost souls to the jiving rap of younger ones. Abraham Pearl manages a Jewish gumshoe in "Hasidic Noir," and Neal Pollack makes a carousel ride and a scavenger hunt as sinister as midnight. Thomas Morrissey does a weird tale of vampire cookies in "Can't Catch Me." The language is richly foul, and so is much of the sex in these 19 stories, divided into four sections from "Old School Brooklyn" to "Cops & Robbers." Brooklyn's Italian and Irish belly up to the bar with Russians, Puerto Ricans, and Rastas. Pete Hamill, probably the biggest name here, opens with a signature tale for both himself and the genre, deceptively called "The Book Signing." GraceAnne DeCandido Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved "[A] collection of crime stories set in different Brooklyn neighborhoods, edited by Mr. McLoughlin . . . The stories are set far and wide in the borough, from Red Hook to Bushwick to Canarsie . . . Brooklyn has always occupied a special place in the imagination of America writers who have been captivated by its raffishness." ― New York Times "[An] anthology of 19 brand new hard-boiled and twisted tales, each set in a different Brooklyn neighborhood . . . the best stories concern people in the present coming to terms with the past." ― Publishers Weekly "This Brooklyn is cagey and unpredictable. This is about the shadowy corners, the musty old bars and the sidewalks littered with broken glass. In Brooklyn Noir , you can’t take anything for granted." ― Brooklyn Paper "A recent publication from Akashic Books is the laudable Brooklyn Noir , a collection of dark tales set in New York’s self-proclaimed punchiest borough . . . the story by Peter Hamill is more than worth the price of the whole book." ― New York Sun " 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, Shamus and Agatha awards CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Pete Hamill, Nelson George, Sidney Offit, Arthur Nersesian, Pearl Abraham, Neal Pollack, Ken Bruen, Ellen Miller, Maggie Estep, Kenji Jasper, Adam Mansbach, C.J. Sullivan, Chris Niles, Norman Kelley, Tim McLoughlin, Nicole Blackman, Thomas Morrissey, Lou Manfredo, Luciano Guerriero, and Robert Knightly. TIM McLOUGHLIN is the editor of the multiple award–winning anthologies  Brooklyn Noir and Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics , and coeditor of  Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth . His debut novel,  Heart of the Old Country , was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program, won Italy’s Premio Penne award, and was the basis for the motion picture  The Narrows . His books have been published in seven language