Baltimore Noir

Biographie de l'auteur Laura Lippman has lived in Baltimore most of her life and she would have spent even more time here if the editors of the Sun had agreed to hire her earlier. She attended public schools and has lived in several of the city's distinctive neighborhoods, including Dickeyville, Tuscany-Canterbury, Evergreen, and South Federal Hill. She is the author of ten books, including the Baltimore-centric Tess Monaghan novels. Rafael Alvarez is the son of a Baltimore tugboat engineer.The author of numerous "Orlo & Leini" tales, Alvarez published a people's history of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in 2005. Jack Bludis is a lifetime resident of the Baltimore area who lived his early years in Pigtown. He was a finalist for both the Shamus and Anthony Awards for Best Short Story in 2004, His novel Shadow of the Dahlia was a Shamus Award finalist in 2005. Tim Cockey spent his wonder years in Baltimore, living in the Cockeysville, Garrison Forest, and Roland Park neighborhoods. He has published five novels featuring Fell's Point undertaker Hitchcock Sewell--the infamous "Hearse" books. He now lives in New York City. Dan Fesperman has lived in Baltimore for more than twenty years, with detours to Berlin and other points abroad as a foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. He is the author of The Warlord's Son and three other novels, two of which have won Dagger Awards from the British Crime Writers Association. Présentation de l'éditeur Laura Lippman recruits David Simon, Tim Cockey, Dan Fesperman and others to craft a lurid and riveting portrait of the real city of Baltimore, behind the screen of TV shows like Homicide The Wire. |To live in Baltimore - Bulletmore, Murderland, according to one famous piece of graffiti - is to be aware of killing; we have not enjoyed the sharp declines in homicide rates achieved by cities such as Boston and New York. We remain steadfastly in the top five, per capita, year in and year out.| From the introduction by Laura Lippman