[Akashic Noir 90] • USA Noir by Temple, Johnny -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover page Title Page Table of Contents Introduction Part I: True Grit

Animal Rescue by Dennis Lehane The Confidential Informant by George Pelecanos The Golden Gopher by Susan Straight The Book Signing by Pete Hamill Run Kiss Daddy by Joyce Carol Oates Still Air by Terrance Hayes White Trash by Jerome Charyn

Part II: American Values

Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep The Gospel of Moral Ends by Bayo Ojikutu When All This Was Bay Ridge by Tim McLoughlin Crazy for You by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Mastermind by Reed Farrel Coleman The Clown and Bard by Karen Karbo

Part III: Road Rage

Mulholland Dive by Michael Connelly Our Eyes Couldn't Stop Opening by Megan Abbott Public Transportation by Lee Child Too Near Real by Jonathan Safran Foer Ride Along by James W. Hall Second Chance by Elyssa East

Part IV: Homeland Security

After Thirty by Don Winslow Missing Gene by J. Malcolm Garcia Loot by Julie Smith The Prison by Domenic Stansberry Helper by Joseph Bruchac Easy As A-B-C by Laura Lippman The Rose Red Vial by Pir Rothenberg

Part V: Under the Influence

Amapola by Luis Alberto Urrea The Tik by John O'Brien Lighthouse by S.J. Rozan Secret Pool by Asali Solomon Bums by William Kent Krueger

Part VI: Street Justice

Vic Primeval by T. Jefferson Parker Feeding Frenzy by Tim Broderick Promised Tulips by Bharti Kirchner If You Can't Stand the Heat by Lawrence Block Phelan's First Case by Lisa Sandlin A Nice Place to Visit by Jeffery Deaver

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