an Award-winning Collection Of Female Noir Stories By Today's Top Female Crime Writers (with A Few Men Thrown In).
michele Leber - Library Journal overall, a Hell Of A Woman -featuring Largely Pink-collar Workers, Housewives, And Students-is Raw, Given Its Language And Level Of Violence. Most Memorable Are Rebecca Pawel's The Kiss Of Death, In Which Women Collectively Deal With The Fat Jerk At Their Tango Dances, Eddie Muller's The Grand Inquisitor, With Its Twist On The Zodiac Killer, And Charlie Huston's Interrogation B, A Laconic Account Of A Female Cop At Work. Although Some Of The Women Are Perpetrators, The Impression Left By This Cutting-edge Anthology Is Of Women As Victims Of Men.
because Women Mystery Writers Had Been Largely Ignored By The Publishing Industry, A Handful Of Them Met In 1986 To Form Sisters In Crime To Make Their Work Known-and It Worked. Marking The Organization's 20th Anniversary, sisters On The Case spotlights 20 Stories (only Three Of Them Previously Published) By Its Founders And Leaders, Now Established Names In The Genre. Paretsky Describes Her Popular Pi's First Case, In Which Ten-year-old V.i. Warshawski Inadvertently Solves A Mob Murder During The 1966 Chicago Race Riots. Barbara D'amato, Margaret Maron, And Nancy Pickard Provide Delicious Final Twists In Their Tales About Dealing With A Wife's Lover, Dividing A Mother's Estate, And Double-talking About Death. Accomplished Work.

Abbott, Megan, 1971- editor; McDermid, Val. writer of foreword

Megan E. Abbott, Val McDermid

Houston, TX: Busted Flush Press

United States, United States of America

1st, First Edition, US, 2007

Houston, Tex, c2008

Houston, TX, ©2007

Houston, Tex, 2007

Houston, TX, c2007

S.l, 2007

An original anthology.
A collection of twenty-five original female noir stories by some of todays top crime writers, including Vicki Hendricks, Sara Gran, Christa Faust, Naomi Hirahara, Charlie Huston, and more. Includes a special fifty-page appendix of essays on female noir pioneers.
Awards include:
Daniel Woodrells UncleNominated for the Edgar and Anthony awards
Cornelia Reads Hungry EnoughWinner of the Shamus Award
Contents:
It's too late, baby by Annette Myers
High yellow by Libby Fischer Hellmann
The kiss of death by Rebecca Pawel
Blue vandas by Lynne Barrett
Served cold by Zo Sharp
The chirashi covenant by Naomi Hirahara
The token booth clerk by Sara Gran
The big O by Vicki Hendricks
School girl by Lisa Respers France
Nora B. by Ken Bruen
Bumping uglies by Donna Moore
Call me, I'm dying by Allan Guthrie
Everybody loves somebody by Sandra Scoppettone
Hungry enough by Cornelia Read
Sunny Second Street by Charlotte Carter
Interrogation B by Charlie Huston
The end of Indian summer by Stona Fitch
Blooming by Sarah Weinman
Round heels by Vin Packer
Cherish by Alison Gaylin
Cutman by Christa Faust
The grand inquisitor by Eddie Muller
Uncle by Daniel Woodrell
Undocumented by SJ Rozan
Appendix : women in the dark

Original Stories By Lynne Barrett, Charlotte Carter, Christa Faust, Alison Gaylin, Sara Gran, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Vicki Hendricks, Naomi Hirahara, Annette Meyers, Donna Moore, Vin Packer, Rebecca Pawel, Cornelia Read, Lisa Respers France, S. J. Rozan, Sandra Scoppettone, Zo Sharp, Sarah Weinman, Ken Bruen, Stona Fitch, Allan Guthrie, Charlie Huston, Eddie Muller, Daniel Woodrell.

354 pages : 21 cm

2023-06-28