Memphis Noir

"Stories by some of the city's finest writers... This new collection is a boon for readers who love a good ghost story and a shiver in the night....The skill of the fifteen writers represented here is evident on every page of *Memphis Noir*, a testament to the cultural richness of the Bluff City."

--**Chapter 16**

"Jealousy, lust and murder are common themes...there's not a bad [story] in the bunch."

--**Underrated Reads**

"Voodoo, ghosts, guns, hatred, jealousy and greed play their part here. There is no place for weakness here."

--**Journey of a Bookseller**

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**: Richard J. Alley, David Wesley Williams, Dwight Fryer, Jamey Hatley, Adam Shaw, Penny Register-Shaw, Kaye George, Arthur Flowers, Suzanne Berube Rorhus, Ehi Ike, Lee Martin, Stephen Clements, Cary Holladay, John Bensko, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Troy L. Wiggins.

From the introduction by **Laureen P. Cantwell & Leonard Gill**:

*"A city equal parts darkness and hope. A scarred city. An often violent one. But a resilient city too.

That's our Memphis.

Like many cities, we have a namesake--in Egypt, Men-nefer became Menfe became Memphis, enduring and beautiful, on the banks of the Nile. Centuries later, another continent, another people, another river: Memphis, Tennessee, the soul of the Mississippi Delta, was formed. We are a place born of history, inhabited as much by memory as by the living--the past and present inextricably and inescapably linked....Memphis is marvels and misfits--two-faced and unabashedly so.

We are Memphis, and this is our *noir*."*