This collection is comprised of works of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors’ imaginations. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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"Femme Sole" @2010 by Dana Cameron was originally published in Boston Noir and is presented here with the author's permission. All Rights Reserved

 

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the stories in this anthology. Bait (excerpt) by Kenneth Abel was originally published by Delacorte Press in 1994, © 1994 by Kenneth Abel; Blanche Cleans Up (excerpt) by Barbara Neely was originally published by Viking Penguin in 1998, © 1998 by Barbara Neely; Infinite Jest (excerpt) by David Foster Wallace, Copyright © 1996 by David Foster Wallace Literary Trust, reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY, all rights reserved; “Driving the Heart” by Jason Brown was originally published in Driving the Heart & Other Stories (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999), © 1999 by Jason Brown; “Home Sweet Home” by Hannah Tinti was originally published in Animal Crackers: Stories, used by permission of The Dial Press/Dell Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc., © 2004 by Hannah Tinti; “Townies” by Andre Dubus was originally published in Finding a Girl in America, reprinted by permission of David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc. and Open Road Integrated Media, Copyright © 1980 by Andre Dubus; “Lucky Penny” by Linda Barnes is reprinted by permission of the Gina Maccoby Literary Agency, Copyright © 1985 by Linda Barnes, “Lucky Penny” was originally published in New Black Mask Quarterly, No. 3, 1985; “Mushrooms” by Dennis Lehane was originally published in Coronado (New York: William Morrow, 2006), © 2006 by Dennis Lehane; “Night-Side” by Joyce Carol Oates was originally published in Night-Side (New York: Vanguard Press, Inc., 1977), © 1977 by Joyce Carol Oates; “Surrogate” by Robert B. Parker was originally published in Surrogate (Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982), © 1982 by Robert B. Parker; “The 5:22” by George Harrar was originally published in Story magazine, Autumn 1998, © 1998 by George Harrar; “The Balance of the Day” by George V. Higgins, Copyright © Loretta Cubberley Higgins, first published in GQ magazine, November 1985, reprinted with the permission of the Albert LaFarge Literary Agency; “The Marriage Privilege” by Chuck Hogan was originally published in Boston College magazine, Summer 2006, © 2006 by Chuck Hogan; “At Night” by David Ryan was originally published in BOMB magazine, Fall 1998, © 1998 by David Ryan.

 

eISBN: 978-1-61775-146-2
Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-136-3
Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-145-5
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