{"product_id":"9781617750441","title":"San Diego Noir","description":"\u003cb\u003eSouthern California is not all sun, sand, and surf in this gripping collection of noir tales from T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Maria Lima, and others.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e San Diego is home to miles of beaches, Balboa Park, a world-famous zoo, and some of the country’s most expensive home and resort real estate. Yet the city also houses a few items that aren’t actively promoted by the visitor’s bureau: a number of the country’s most corrupt politicians, border-related crimes, terrorists, and the occasional earthquakes. A noir feast!\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In the fifty-plus years since Raymond Chandler set \u003ci\u003ePlayback \u003c\/i\u003ein Esmeralda, his name for La Jolla, the population has grown by more than a million, and crime has proliferated as well. San Diego of the past and the present offers the book’s contributors a rich selection of settings, from the cross on Mount Soledad to the piers of Ocean Beach, and perpetrators and victims from the residents of its wealthiest enclaves to the inhabitants of its segregated barrios.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Noir\u003c\/i\u003e includes stories by T. Jefferson Parker, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Martha C. Lawrence, Diane Clark \u0026amp; Astrid Bear, Debra Ginsberg, Morgan Hunt, Ken Kuhlken, Taffy Cannon, Don Winslow, Cameron Pierce Hughes, Lisa Brackmann, Gabriel R. Barillas, Gar Anthony Haywood, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Maria Lima.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “When it’s done right, noir is a darkly delicious thrill: smart, sharp-tongued, surprising. The knife goes in at the end with a twist. \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Noir\u003c\/i\u003e, a new 15-story collection by some of the region’s best writers, has all that going for it, and the steady supply of hometown references makes it even more fun.” —\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181293289712,"sku":"9781617750441","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617750441_p0.jpg?v=1769904880","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617750441","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}