On the heels of Rio Noir , beloved Brazilian rock star and best-selling novelist Tony Bellotto ushers another world-class city into the Akashic Noir Series.
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir . Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
Featuring brand-new stories by : Tony Bellotto, Olivia Maia, Marcelino Freire, Beatriz Bracher, Maria S. Carvalhosa, Fernando Bonassi, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Maral Aquino, J Soares, Mario Prata, Ferrz, Vanessa Barbara, Ilana Casoy, and Drauzio Varella.
From the introduction by Tony Bellotto:
Encyclopedias will say that So Paulo is the main financial, corporative, and commercial center of South America. The census will show that So Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil, the Americas, the Portuguese-speaking world, and the entire Southern Hemisphere. Scholars will inform us that So Paulo is the most multicultural city in Brazil, having received, since 1870, millions of immigrants from every part of the planet, and that it is the city with the largest populations of people of Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, and Lebanese/Arab origin outside their respective countries. Experts will assure us that So Paulo has a high crime rate. Sociologists will confirm that the city has an area known as Cracolndia (Crackland) and that among the violent and neglected communities spread along its periphery one bears the ironic name Paraispolis. Politicians will roar that So Paulo is the engine that drives Brazil . . .
More than historians and sociologists, writers have always been able to transform cities into great characters. This is the way we decipher devouring sphinxes.

Santa Cruz noir

Bellotto, Tony, 1960- editor, author; Landers, Clifford E., translator

edited by Susie Bright

Akashic noir series, Brooklyn, New York, 2018

United States, United States of America

PT, 2018

"AKB475"--Spine.

Part I: Murder capital of the world.
Buck low -- Tommy Moore
Whatever happened to Skinny Jane -- Ariel Gore
Monarchs and maidens -- Margaret Elysia Garcia
54028 Love Creek Road -- Jessica Breheny
Possessed -- Naomi Hirahara -- Part II: The lineup.
Wheels of justice -- Jon Bailiff
Mischa and the seal -- Liza Monroy
First peak -- Peggy Townsend
Safe harbor -- Seana Graham
Miscalculation -- Vinnie Hansen -- Part III: Good neighbors.
To live and die in Santa Cruz -- Calvin McMillin
Treasure island -- Micah Perks
Flaming arrows -- Wallace Baine
The big creep -- Elizabeth McKenzie
Death and taxes -- Jill Wolfson -- Part IV: Killer South.
The strawberry tattoo -- Maceo Montoya
Crab Dinners -- Lou Mathews
Pinballs -- Beth Lisick
The shooter -- Lee Quarnstrom
It follows until it leads -- Dillon Kaiser.

"On the heels of Rio Noir, beloved Brazilian rock star and best-selling novelist Tony Bellotto ushers another world-class city into the Akashic Noir Series. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographic area of the book."--Publisher's description

268 pages : 22 cm
"AKB479"--Spine

2023-10-09