Santa Cruz Noir
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In Akashic Books’ award-winning series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir, San Francisco Noir, San Diego Noir, Orange County Noir, and Oakland Noir, “we get a series of crime stories rich with surf culture in a town loaded with itinerant spirits, typifying Santa Cruz as a place to be lost, or get lost, or lose yourself. That ethos permeates the stories in the collection, granting them an intriguing grittiness that might otherwise be missing. Concluding with a serious gutpunch of a story, Santa Cruz Noir is a worthy addition to the series” (San Francisco Book Review).
This anthology features Elizabeth McKenzie’s “The Big Creep,” a Shamus Award finalist, and Lou Mathews’s “Crab Dinners” and Dillon Kaiser’s “It Follows as it Leads,” which have been included in the Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2018 list in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019. It also includes brand-new stories by Tommy Moore, Jessica Breheny, Naomi Hirahara, Calvin McMillin, Liza Monroy, Jill Wolfson, Ariel Gore, Jon Bailiff, Maceo Montoya, Micah Perks, Seana Graham, Vinnie Hansen, Peggy Townsend, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Lee Quarnstrom, Beth Lisick, and Wallace Baine.
“A thrilling, whip-smart book that will dazzle local lovers of crime fiction.”—Good Times Santa Cruz
“There are intricate plots, sketchier plots, dubious motives, inscrutable motives, downright creepiness, edgy stuff, and wonderful humor. Something for everyone’s taste in noir.”—Escape into Life
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Susie Bright. (2018). Santa Cruz Noir. Akashic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Susie Bright. 2018. Santa Cruz Noir. Akashic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Susie Bright, Santa Cruz Noir. Akashic Books, 2018.
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This anthology features Elizabeth McKenzie’s “The Big Creep,” a Shamus Award finalist, and Lou Mathews’s “Crab Dinners” and Dillon Kaiser’s “It Follows as it Leads,” which have been included in the Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2018 list in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019. It also includes brand-new stories by Tommy Moore, Jessica Breheny, Naomi Hirahara, Calvin McMillin, Liza Monroy, Jill Wolfson, Ariel Gore, Jon Bailiff, Maceo Montoya, Micah Perks, Seana Graham, Vinnie Hansen, Peggy Townsend, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Lee Quarnstrom, Beth Lisick, and Wallace Baine.
“A thrilling, whip-smart book that will dazzle local lovers of crime fiction.”—Good Times Santa Cruz
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- content: Another stellar installment in the marvelous Akashic Noir series of anthologies that take readers around the world...In these stories, you will find struggle and cruelty, madness and kindness, and everything human. I recommend it highly."
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Sexologist Bright (The Best of Best American Erotica, 2008, etc.) joins the ranks of Akashic editors to rip the lid off the California coastal town that's never seemed less laid-back.Considering how small Santa Cruz is, the results here are all over the map except for one invariable rule: Nothing in these 20 new stories goes right. Not the lesbian romance Ariel Gore tracks in "Whatever Happened to Skinny Jane?" Not a community college teacher's attempts to cover for her foundering student in Jessica Breheny's "54028 Love Creek Road." Not the summer-camp friendship Naomi Hirahara develops, then curtails, in "Possessed." Not a college student's search for her missing father, a noted Chinese chef, in Lou Mathews' "Crab Dinners." Not the attempts of sorely tried neighbors to impose the law on their neighborhoods in Micah Perks' "Treasure Island" and Wallace Baine's "Flaming Arrows." Not the doomed romances between moneyed men and the women they pick up in Seana Graham's "Safe Harbor" and Liza Monroy's "Mischa and the Seal," whose heroine gets sage telepathic advice from a seal. Among the strongest entries: An obstreperous 10-year-old interferes when her parents take in a student researcher in Margaret Elysia Garcia's "Monarchs and Maidens"; Elizabeth McKenzie shows a teenage girl whose stint as a private eye gets even shakier when she has to avenge her dead client in "The Big Creep"; an aimless fling suddenly turns nasty in Beth Lisick's "Pinballs"; and a Latino gangster hopes in vain that his son won't follow in his footsteps in Dillon Kaiser's "It Follows Until It Leads."Though many of these stories are more interested in evoking a voice or mood than pursuing a plot to its conclusion, Vinnie Hansen's "Miscalculation" provides a textbook example of how many twists can fit into the simple tale of a bank teller's adventures with the Guitar Case Bandit.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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The 20 tales in this average entry in Akashic’s noir series cover the area in and around Santa Cruz, Northern California’s surfing capital. A few spotlight surfing, a few more feature psycho killers on the loose, and others offer magical overtones, such as Peggy Townsend’s “First Peak,” which in a surprise move somehow brings the Hawaii volcano deity Pele to town. Longtime local reporter Lee Quarnstrom’s brief “The Shooter” realistically depicts a burst of gunplay in a Watsonville roadhouse decades ago. In Jessica Breheny’s “54028 Love Creek Road,” an aging teacher makes rent by doing classes at multiple institutions—a tough enough situation even if you didn’t have a problem with a gang member who needs a passing grade. A 15-year-old girl detective stars in Elizabeth McKenzie’s “The Big Creep,” while Jill Wolfson in “Death and Taxes” works a quick Tarantino-esque scenario with a 17-year-old boy spinning a sign for tax work on the street corner. Most of the stories feel unfinished, but some are redeemed by a vibrant edge.
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