Tart Noir - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425186431 ISBN 13: 9780425186435

Publisher: Berkley Trade, 2002

Synopsis

Presents twenty edgy, exciting tales of outrageous, badly behaved heroines with bad attitudes and questionable morals by Val McDermid, Sparkle Hayter, Liza Cody, Karin Slaughter, Katy Munger, Sujata Massey, Lisa Jewell, Laura Lippman, and other popular British and American mystery writers. Original.

About this title

Review:

Heroines, bad girls, murderesses have their day in this cheeky collection of short stories featuring 20 distaff crime writers and their protagonists--unabashedly politically incorrect and tough as Revlon-frosted nails. As the editors point out in their introduction, tart noir, like all versions of the genre, "can taste as sad and bitter at times as a pint of cheap gin in an after-hours bar." It can also be frankly erotic, like Val McDermid's tale of an obsession that ends in murder; fantastically compelling, like Vicki Hendricks's story about a woman and her dolphin lover; or coolly manipulative, like the well-mannered protagonist of Laura Lipman's recounting of a controlling husband and his resentful wife. While most of the authors are Brits who may not be too well known among American readers, their offerings are smart and snappy enough to send those making their acquaintance for the first time to the backlist in search of their earlier works. --Jane Adams

About the Author:

Stella Duffy is the author of four crime novels featuring Saz Martin, as well as two other novels. She has published fifteen short stories, several articles, has performed two one-woman shows and has had a stage play produced. She lives in London.

Lauren Henderson, the “dominatrix of the British crime scene” (Time Out London) is the author of seven crime novels featuring anti-heroine Sam Jones. She has also written an anti-Bridget Jones novel. Born in London, she now lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0425186431
• ISBN 13: 9780425186435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Duffy Stella, Henderson Lauren