Orange County Noir

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In Orange County Noir, 14 writers tell tales from the shadowy parts of the O.C., the places where people do bad things to each other and sometimes to themselves.

It’s the latest in a series of ”Noir” collections from Akashic Books, each of which picks a location and then finds the writers who’ve been peeking behind drawn curtains, prowling through dim alleys and general looking for the secrets that lie hidden beneath the smiles and shiny surfaces.  more
   — Orange County Register

There’s a dark side to most places,” even California’s sunny Orange County, Edgar-winner T. Jefferson Parker observes in his foreword to this outstanding entry in Akashic’s noir series, one of the stronger of the all-original anthologies. The crisp, often seductive prose of the 14 contributors, most of them relatively unknown, is a tribute to the critical judgment of the editor.
   — Publishers Weekly *STARRED* review