If you are looking for foggy, dimly lit alleys echoing with the click-clack of a woman's high-heeled shoes, where a mook stiffs you for a drink, and where a glance can kill, look no further. This is the best in contemporary Canadian noir fiction. Sixteen stories from both award-winning veteran crime writers and a new generation of gritty urban authors, this collection boldly defies the notion that Canadians are nicer than everyone else. Isolation, anxiety, and survival -- staple themes of Canadian literature -- are the foundations of noir. These powerful narratives feature street-savvy protagonists and corrupt characters struggling to find order, meaning, or maybe even redemption in a world of corruption, lust, mystery, and revenge.
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From Eliza Moorhouse's story of an unscrupulous Hong Kong opium dealer to Crad Kilodney's sly send-up of noir conventions about a man who did not "awaken in a strange hotel room, with an empty bottle on the floor and beautiful woman asleep beside him," Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction showcases the best recent work in the genre. Edited by noir writers Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers, the book features both established and up-and-coming Canadian writers.
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About the Author
Kerry Schooley lives and writes in Hamilton, Ontario. His noir fiction has been published in numerous magazines and an anthology of short mystery fiction. He hosts a Web site: www.murderoutthere.com. Peter Sellers is an award-winning writer who founded and edited the critically acclaimed Cold Blood anthology series. In 2001, Sellers won the Ellery Queen Readers Award for his story "Avenging Miriam." He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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Iced provides a peek into the dark recesses of the Great White North that have hitherto been passed over for the bright red uniforms of the Mounted Police. But once you get past the tourist shots, Canada shows itself to be just another stretch of property to be found along the mean streets of hardboiled literature. Great read overall. Particularly memorable is "Avenging Miriam" by Peter Sellers and James Powell's contemplative "Winter Hiatus".
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