Brooklyn Noir

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New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today's best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bay Ridge and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn's historical and criminal largesse, with all its dark splendour. Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighbourhood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish and many other ethnicities - in the most diverse urban location on the planet.

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You want real Leave the white collar at home and come to Brooklyn. The stories in this astonishingly diverse collection will pull you out onto the street, maybe even rough you up a little. And you'll love it. Edgy, sly, and at times downright eye-popping, Brooklyn Noir takes you on an ultra-cool walking tour of NYC's hippest borough.
--Tim Cockey, author of Backstabber

From the sentimental to the hard-edged, a collection as varied and spirited as the characters and neighborhoods it celebrates.
--Thomas H. Cook, author of The Chatham School Affair and Breakheart Hill

For fans of noir, for fans of Brooklyn, for fans of just plain old great writing--this is the book for you, or, rather, I should say, you'se.
--Jonathan Ames, author of What's Not to Love and The Extra Man

Praise for McLoughlin's Heart of the Old Country:

...cracks with the authenticity that only a writer with a perfect ear can accomplish.
--Bob Leuci, author of Blaze

McLoughlin writes about South Brooklyn with a fidelity to people and place reminiscent of James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London.
--Sidney Offit, author of Memoir of the Bookie's Son

Author Bio

Tim McLoughlin's respect on any Brooklyn street predates the publication of his debut novel Heart of the Old Country (available from Turnaround), a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers programme that was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "an inspired cross between Richard Price and Ross McDonald." For years he has worked in the Supreme Court in downtown Brooklyn.