This is publication day for the new book, Mickey Finn Volume 5: 21st Century Noir. Edited by SMFS list member Michael Bracken, who also wrote the introduction, the anthology from Down & Out books features short stories from a number of SMFS list members. The read is available from the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors. The SMFS list members that reported being in the read are:
K.L. Abrahamson with “Red Dust Express.”
Eddie Generous with “Sister.”
James A. Hearn with “Gone Fishin'.”
Hugh Lessig with “Burned.”
Tom Milani with “Barstow.”
Alan Orloff with “Solid Six.”
Travis Richardson with “No Requests Denied.”
Joseph S. Walker with “Ronnie Mercer is Back in Town.”
Andrew Welsh-Huggins with “All Apples.”
Description
Mickey
Finn: 21st Century Noir, Volume 5, the fifth entry of the hard-hitting anthology series, is
another crime-fiction cocktail that will again knock readers into a literary
stupor.
Contributors push hard
against the boundaries of crime fiction, driving their work into places short
crime fiction doesn’t often go, into a world where the mean streets seem
gentrified by comparison and happy endings are the exception rather than the
rule. And they do all this in contemporary settings, bringing noir into the
21st century.
Like any good
cocktail, Mickey Finn is a heady mix of ingredients that packs
a punch, and when you’ve finished reading every story, you’ll know that you’ve
been “slipped a Mickey.”
The eighteen contributors,
including some of today’s most respected short-story writers and new writers
making their mark on the genre, include: K.L. Abrahamson, Alan Barker, Michael
Chandos, Caleb Coy, Eddie Generous, Nils Gilbertson, James A. Hearn, Hugh
Lessig, Sean McCluskey, Tom Milani, Bill W. Morgan, Alan Orloff, Travis
Richardson, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Robb T. White, Sam Wiebe, Joseph S. Walker,
and Stacy Woodson.
