L.A. NOIR II event with editor Denise Hamilton

Join Denise Hamilton and Patricia McFall for an afternoon of Southern California noir on Sunday, April 11, at 2:00 PM. Denise, the award-winning author of the Eve Diamond Series, compiled the original Los Angeles Noir anthology a few years ago, and now she and a bevy of great writers have returned to the birthplace of noir.  Los Angeles Noir 2 contributors include contemporary authors like Naomi Hirahara (meet Naomi at MG on April 17) and James Ellroy, as well as those who are no longer w8ith us, like Ross Macdonald, Joseph Hansen and Leigh Brackett. Patricia is one of the contributors to Orange County Noir’s “hard-boiled tour behind the Orange Curtain,” along with editor Gary Phillips, Robert Levinson, Nathan Walpow, and Dick Lochte. Johnny Temple, the publisher and Editor in Chief of Akashic Books, which has produced more than 40 titles in this series (which has generated multiple award nominees), will be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the end of April, along with numerous other contributors to these and other volumes.

Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics (Paperback)

By Denise Hamilton

$15.95

ISBN-13: 9781936070022
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Akashic Books, 4/2010

From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in the City of Angels.

Includes classic stories by: Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross MacDonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, and Yxta Maya Murray.

Editor Denise Hamilton is the author of the Eve Diamond series and the editor of Los Angeles Noir. Her latest novel, Los Angeles Times bestseller The Last Embrace, has been compared to works by James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Noir (Paperback)

By Denise Hamilton

$15.95

ISBN-13: 9781933354224
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Akashic Books, 5/2007

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Brand-new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, Scott Phillips, Diana Wagman, Lienna Silver, Brian Ascalon Roley, and Denise Hamilton. Denise Hamilton writes the Eve Diamond series. Her books have been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony, and Willa Cather awards. The Los Angeles Times named Last Lullaby a Best Book of 2004, and it was also a USA Today Summer Pick and a finalist for a Southern California Booksellers Association 2004 award. Her fourth Eve Diamond novel, Savage Garden, is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Southern California Booksellers Association award for Best Mystery of 2005.

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