"Featuring short, edgy fiction on the Emerald City's seamy underbelly . . . seedy characters, private detectives and the like from all over urban Seattle." — Kitsap Daily NewsEarly Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport filled with merchant sailors, longshoremen, lumberjacks, rowdy saloons, and a rough-and-tumble police force not immune to corruption and graft. Now it's home to big businesses and a flourishing art, theatre, and club scene. Seattle's evolution ...

Who is Big Ed and why does he want detective Jake Rossiter pushing up daisies? To find out. Rossiter- with the help of his able bodied girl Friday, Miss Jenkins - digs throulayers of vice and violence in Seattle's seamy underbelly, until he uncovers a case of corruption and prejudice that pits him toe to-toe with hysterical dames, out of town muscle and the entire Rat City police force.

It's Jake Rossiter's birthday, and all he wants to do is celebrate with the luscious Miss Jenkins. But when the wealthy owner of Seattle's swankiest gay nightclub calls to tell him that Trixie, the club's biggest attraction, has been knocked off, what's a private dick to do? Soon, suspects are rampant, alibis are screwy, and leads are unraveling like a cheap feather boa. Jake's search for Trixie's killer takes him from the hallways of high society to the back alleys of blackmail and corrup...

It's Jake Rossiter's birthday, and all he wants to do is celebrate with the luscious Miss Jenkins. But when the wealthy owner of Seattle's swankiest gay nightclub calls to tell him that Trixie, the club's biggest attraction, has been knocked off, what's a private dick to do? Soon, suspects are rampant, alibis are screwy, and leads are unraveling like a cheap feather boa. Jake's search for Trixie's killer takes him from the hallways of high society to the back alleys of blackmail and corrup...

Dennis Lehane steps up to the plate as editor and presents a scintillating collection of deep, dark fiction."Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys . . . [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has . . . left people feeling crushed." — New York Times Crime Fiction ColumnAkashic Books continues its grou...

Dennis Lehane returns to coedit, with Cotton & Clarke, the sequel to the best-selling evergreen anthology Boston Noir , culling classic stories from the city's dark literary legacy."The contributor list is delightfully quirky . . . The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class—as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of mill town resentment and pampered preppies." — Boston Globe

A psychologically, morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present.Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin’s enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is at war again, and Joe’s son, Tomás, is growing up. Now, the former crime kingpin works as a consigliore...

In this short story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, bestselling authors Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly—along with their popular series characters Patrick Kenzie and Harry Bosch—team up for the first time ever.Harry Bosch finds himself on unfamiliar territory when he arrives at Boston’s Logan airport, on the trail of a fifteen-year-old unsolved murder. Meanwhile, local P.I. Patrick Kenzie is sniffing around the same suspect that Bosch is tracking—...

Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets ...

"Stories of murder, passion, betrayal . . . grounded very firmly and specifically in Toronto—Dundas Square, The Beach, Dufferin Mall, Yorkville, etc." —BlogTOA multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities that provide fertile backdrops for crimes of passion and perfidy. Toronto Noir proves that Ontario's clean-cut capital hides an underworld of sin, scandal, and everyday evil.This anthology featur...

Now available with a contemporary look, a must-have collection of riveting short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island.“Locations are vivid and crisp, characters are memorable and, most importantly, the story lines dig into you and leave their mark.” —Boston HeraldWhen it comes to contemporary crime fiction there’s no territory quite as dangerous and unpredi...

"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York TimesDennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of A...