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Anna Hoyt
Series · 4 books · 2009-2014

Books in series

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Boston Noir

2009

Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O'Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron. Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Given Day) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the city—the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between. Lehane’s own contribution—the longest story in the volume—is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader. In 2003, Lehane’s novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island, the film based on Lehane’s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen. Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Award–winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida. PART I: FEAR & LOATHING LYNNE HEITMAN Exit Interview Financial District DENNIS LEHANE Animal Rescue Dorchester JIM FUSILLI The Place Where He Belongs Beacon Hill PATRICIA POWELL Dark Waters Watertown PART II: SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET DANA CAMERON Femme Sole North End BRENDAN DUBOIS The Dark Island Boston Harbor STEWART O'NAN The Reward Brookline JOHN DUFRESNE The Cross-Eyed Bear Southie PART III: VEILS OF DECEIT DON LEE The Oriental Hair Poets Cambridge ITABARI NJERI The Collar Roxbury RUSS ABORN Turn Speed North Quincy
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Disarming

2011

Macavity Award Nominations 2012, Best Mystery Short Story. "It took Anna Hoyt two days before she left her small room at the Southwark inn. She had not been ill a single day during her voyage, despite the late season and roughness of the seas, while some passengers had never left their cabins. Nor was it the distressing contents of the letter she kept in her Bible that paralyzed her. It was the sheer size of London, looming beyond her window, shrouded by icy fog. Even her life near the Boston wharves hadn’t prepared her for the tumult she encountered by the waterfront, slippery with briny mud. She was nearly run down twice before she found a carter willing to take her and her luggage. The driver incomprehensibly cursed her when she asked him a third time to repeat his price; at length she understood he was speaking English, but with the thickest Welsh accent she’d ever heard. He urged his horses into the gloom, muttering to himself as Anna clung to her seat, miserable and shivering in the frigid January rain."
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#4

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

2014

In this month’s issue of page-turners, you’ll have a chance to reconnect with a few series characters, like Dana Cameron’s colonial-Boston innkeeper Anna Hoyt, who treads lightly around extreme violence in an attempt to escape with her reputation, her business, and her life (“Declaration”). Master Chef Auguste Didier returns too, and once again finds himself in the presence of murder, this time at a glamorous dinner party (“Murder and the Golden Slipper” by Amy Myers). Another character you might know—the eponymous star of Michael Guillebeau’s novel Josh Whoever—shows up as a young man coming of age and coming to terms with the social and familial realities of his life as a fisherman’s son in North Florida (“Crimes of Passion”). He’s not the only young protagonist in these pages, as two more fight against quietly deadly foes, one at school (“Ash” by Arthur Piper) and one in his own neighborhood (“Neighbor” by David Dean). In the chilling and poignant “Cold Island” by Brendan DuBois, a defense lawyer is particularly suited to coax a wanted man from a deserted winter cabin. To warm up, we have “Two for the Price of One” by Belinda Bauer, a charming tale about a couple who become particularly enamored with one of their customers. And you won’t want to miss our two puzzle mysteries: “The Ghost of the Badminton Court” by Szu-Yen Lin and “Death in the Pasig,” a special Black Mask story by Raoul Whitfield, writing as Ramon DeColta.
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011

2011

With wind in its sails and a salty sea breeze, our June issue cruises in with a great crew of crime writers whose fictional sleuths are strong on teamwork... Start with the "The Chatelaine Bag," a Carpenter-Quincannon case from MWA Grand Masters Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, in which the 1890s P.I.s must ferret out the thief who ruined San Francisco's society event of the season; then check out Clark Howard's "Crystal Death," in which two DEA agents race the clock to find a Chicago drug dealer and end a rash of fatal overdoses. And you won't want to miss Eric Cline's "Two Dwarves and Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs," a chilling take on Poe's "Hop-Frog," in our Department of First Stories, in which the relationship between the jester Hopp-Frosch and the lovely Tripetta takes center stage. We've got tales of loners, too, and of partnerships broken. Boston innkeeper Anna Hoyt travels to England, equally wary of being double-crossed by her patron and the enemy he sends her to spy on, in Dana Cameron's "Disarming" (sequel to her Edgar-nominated historical "Femme Sole"); and an English retiree becomes suspicious of his neighbors in a quaint seaside town in Caroline Benton's "A Game of Patience." In Maynard Allington's psychological thriller "The Appointment," a psychiatrist struggles to help her patient, who suffers from PTSD and finds the lines of reality and hallucination have blurred; and in Randall Silvis' "Snap," a man finds his trust is misplaced when an old friend returns to town—with a new woman in tow. Finally, for some classic Hollywood-style suspense, see Robert Levinson's "The Killing of Stacey Janes" and Luis Adrián Betancourt's "Indiscreet Window" (Passport to Crime): In the former, a precocious fan club president has an ulterior motive: getting her revenge on the actress who killed her mother; and in the latter, a tribute to Rear Window, a man develops a one-sided relationship with the woman in a neighboring window. CONTENTS: Fiction: CRYSTAL DEATH by Clark Howard Reviews: THE JURY BOX by Steve Steinbock Fiction: DISARMING by Dana Cameron Fiction: THE APPOINTMENT by Maynard Allington Fiction: THE CHATELAINE BAG by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini Passport to Crime: INDISCREET WINDOW by Luis Adrian Betancourt Fiction: THE KILLING OF STACEY JANES by Robert S. Levinson Fiction: A GAME OF PATIENCE by Caroline Benton Reviews: BLOG BYTES by Bill Crider Fiction: SNAP by Randall Silvis Department of First Stories: TWO DWARVES AND EIGHT CHAINED OURANG-OUTANGS by Eric Cline Special Feature: EQMM WELCOMES A NEW BOOK REVIEWER

Authors

Dana Cameron
Dana Cameron
Author · 23 books

[From the author's own website] I was born and raised in New England and I live in Massachusetts now, with my husband and benevolent feline overlords. Mine is a quiet, fairly ordinary life. I love that because it's what saves me from an overdeveloped sense of paranoia and a tendency to expect the worst. Combined with an eye for detail and a quirky take on life, these traits give me a vivid internal life, one that's sometimes a little nerve-wracking, but very useful for writing mystery and suspense. My interest in archaeology stems from childhood, where my interest in books and the opportunities I had to travel made me begin to think about cultural differences. The thing I like best about this work is that it is a real opportunity to try and resurrect individuals from the monolith of history. I've worked on prehistoric and historical sites in the U.S. and in Europe, and like to teach, in the field, in museums, in the classroom, and through writing. In my first book, Site Unseen, my protagonist Emma Fielding discovers that archaeologists are trained to ask the same questions that detectives ask: who, what, where, when, how, and why. When I started on these books, I realized that archaeology is also good training for writing because research, logic, and persistence are so important to both endeavors. Naturally, that training worked with the archaeology mysteries—and it also helped with my first short story, "The Lords of Misrule," a historical mystery which appeared in the anthology, Sugarplums and Scandal. But how has it worked when I've tackled subjects as seemingly diverse as werewolves ("The Night Things Changed" in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and "Swing Shift" in Crimes By Moonlight) and noir ("Femme Sole," in Boston Noir)? Easy: it's all about getting into someone else's shoes and walking around for a while. Preferably, getting into (fictional) trouble while you do it. Asking "what if?" and thinking about how culture and subcultures—in addition to personality—shape behavior.

Belinda Bauer
Belinda Bauer
Author · 12 books
Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa. She has worked as a journalist and screenwriter, and her script THE LOCKER ROOM earned her the Carl Foreman/Bafta Award for Young British Screenwriters, an award that was presented to her by Sidney Poitier. She was a runner-up in the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition for "Mysterious Ways," about a girl stranded on a desert island with 30,000 Bibles. Belinda now lives in Wales.
Michael Guillebeau
Michael Guillebeau
Author · 7 books
Michael Guillebeau's book MAD LIBRARIAN won the 2017 Foreword Reviews Indie for Humor Book of the Year. He has published seven novels and two anthologies and over thirty-five short stories, including three in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
Raoul Whitfield
Raoul Whitfield
Author · 4 books
Although born in New York, Raoul Fauconnier Whitfield's early life was shaped by his father's transfer to the Philippines where he led the privilege life as the dependent of a Territorial Government bureaucrat. Young Whitfield would later travel through China and Japan where his memory of Asia would prove to serve him well. Back in the States, the teenager aspired to motion pictures, where his rugged good looks graced the silent cinema. If it weren't for America's entry into the Great War in 1917 we might know him as an actor, but Whitfield enlisted in the Army and was initially assigned to the ambulance corps. Desiring action, he sought and won a commission as a pilot and saw duty on the German Front as a combat pilot. After the Armistice, Whitfield spurned his steel business-based family's desires, married his first wife Prudence and landed a job with the Pittsburgh Post as a reporter. Prudence encouraged his long held desires to write pulp fiction stories. His writing drew upon his childhood travels in the Far East (his 'Jo Gar, Island Detective' character was based in Manila) along with his more recent wartime exploits. He succeeded in selling stories for Boy's Life, War Stories and Battle Stories (under the pseudonym 'Temple Field') - but he's especially notable for his contributions to Black Mask, the creme of the pulps. His 'Crime Buster' Black Mask stories were so popular they were amalgamated into his first novel, Green Ice (published in 1930) earning the praise of none other than the genre master, Dashiell Hammett, with its hard-as-nails emphasis on action. Whitfield had a total of 9 books published during the depths of the Great Depression. The speed in which he ground out work was amazing but it also drew criticism; his lesser stories were spurned as hack work. Whitfield often wrote under the pseudonym, Ramon Dacolta, who ironically proved a heady rival in readership popularity. Many of his 1927-33 stories easily ranks with the best authors of pulp fiction. Whitfield's screen writing career began in earnest after his divorce from Prudence and relocated from Florida to Los Angeles in 1933. He landed a job as a writer for Paramount and on a whirlwind trip to New York City, met and married the wealthy and unstable Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer, with emphasis on the Vanderbilt. Life was good for a short period; the couple purchased a large ranch outside Las Vegas, Nevada and Whitfield's writing productivity slowed to a trickle. The Whitfield's marriage was wobbly, masked by partying. Emily experienced bouts of manic depression and the couple separated in early 1935. Her mental state was far more fragile than anyone had imagined, she committed suicide at the Nevada ranch that May. Whitfield was inconsolable over his wife's death and he was utterly destroyed. Contracting TB in his 40s he died at a military hospital in California in 1945.
Ruo-Yan Lin
Author · 3 books
台灣嘉義人,中正大學哲學研究所碩士,著名推理小說家、評論家,以文筆優美、邏輯嚴明著稱,著有《冰鏡莊殺人事件》等作品。
Amy Myers
Amy Myers
Author · 15 books

aka Laura Daniels, Harriet Hudson Amy Myers was born in Kent, where she still lives, although she has now ventured to the far side of the Medway. For many years a director of a London publishing company, she is now a full-time writer. Married to an American, she lived for some years in Paris, where, surrounded by food, she first dreamed up her Victorian chef detective Auguste Didier. Currently she is writing her contemporary crime series starring Jack Colby, car detective, and in between his adventures continuing her Marsh & Daughter series and her Victorian chimnney sweep Tom Wasp novels. Series: * Peter and Georgia March * Auguste Didier * Tom Wasp Anthologies edited: * After Midnight Stories

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