Chicago Blues - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932557490 ISBN 13: 9781932557497

Publisher: Bleak House Books, 2007

Synopsis

This anthology includes 21 stories by Stuart Kaminsky, Max Allan Collins, Sara Paretsky, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Marcus Sakey, Sean Chercover, J.A. Konrath, Barbara D'Amato, and more. It was originally published in hardcover and paperback in October, 2007. Blue is the new Noir, and nobody does Blues like Chicago. This collection of dark stories from some of the best Chicago crime fiction authors captures the depths to which people sink when they have the Blues. The emptiness and pain caused by greed. The violence of revenge. And, occasionally, the bittersweet redemption that comes from a broken heart. Whether it s the back alleys of Lower Wacker, the Blues clubs of yesteryear, or even the baseline at Wrigley Field, these stunning edgy tales of desperation, deceit, love gone bad, and revenge will haunt you like the riff of a Muddy Waters tune you can t get our of your head. Read these stories and see why the heart of Chicago throbs to the beat of the Blues... and why the Blues are made for Chicago.

About this title

About the Author:

Libby Fischer Hellmann left a career in broadcast news in Washington, DC and moved to Chicago over 35 years ago, where she, naturally, began to write gritty crime fiction. Fifteen novels and twenty-five short stories later, she claims they ll take her out of the Windy City feet first. She has been nominated for many awards in the mystery and crime writing community and has even won a few.

From Publishers Weekly:

This classy anthology of mostly original short stories from 21 renowned Windy City authors blends the blues, crime and Chicago, quite surpassing Akashic's recent Chicago Noir. Several series heroes make appearances, including Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski, Kris Nelscott's Smokey Dalton and J.A. Konrath's Jack Daniels. Stuart M. Kaminsky takes a different tack with Blue Note, a fine story of a poker game where the real stakes are a mother's fingers. Two authors with acclaimed recent debut novels, Jack Fredrickson (A Safe Place for Dying) and Marcus Sakey (The Blade Itself), demonstrate equal talent in short form. Best of all are Michael Allen Dymoch's A Shade of Blue in which a man claims to have witnessed a murder that took place 30 years earlier; D.C. Brod's My Heroes Have Always Been Shortstops, which measures the depths of a Cubs fan's devotion; and Barb D'Amato's The Lower Wacker Hilton, about the death of a homeless man in Chicago's underworld. This impressive volume has soul, grit and plenty of high notes. (Oct.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bleak House Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1932557490
• ISBN 13: 9781932557497
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Hellmann Libby Fischer