Damn Near Dead

Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir by Zoë Sharp, Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, Charlie Stella, James Crumley, Donna Moore, Jeff Abbott, John Harvey, Mark Billingham, Jason Starr, Milton Burton, Charles Ardai, Jenny Siler, Laura Lippman, Allan Guthrie, Steve Brewer, Bill Crider, Megan Abbott, Robert Ward, Duane Swierczynski, Duane Swierczynski, Stuart MacBride, Dave White, Sarah Weinman, Simon Kernick, Victor Gischler, Colin Cotterill, Sean Doolittle, Ray Banks

Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir

Damn Near Dead #1

Zoë Sharp, Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, Charlie Stella, James Crumley, Donna Moore, Jeff Abbott, John Harvey, Mark Billingham, Jason Starr, Milton Burton, Charles Ardai, Jenny Siler, Laura Lippman, Allan Guthrie, Steve Brewer, Bill Crider, Megan Abbott, Robert Ward, Duane Swierczynski, Duane Swierczynski, Stuart MacBride, Dave White, Sarah Weinman, Simon Kernick, Victor Gischler, Colin Cotterill, Sean Doolittle, Ray Banks

400 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction crime mystery short stories dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying by Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini, Declan Burke, Marcia Muller, Patti Abbott, Kat Richardson, Russel D. McLean, Scott Cupp, Ace Atkins, Scott Phillips, Cameron Hughes, C.J. Box, Denise Mina, S.J. Rozan, Charlaine Harris, Dean A. James, Joe R. Lansdale, Cornelia Read, Toni L.P. Kelner, Tom Piccirilli, Bill Crider, Don Winslow, Christa Faust, Jennifer Jordan, James Reasoner, Carolyn Haines, Gary Phillips, Anthony Neil Smith, Gar Anthony Haywood, Neal Barrett Jr., David Handler

Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying

Damn Near Dead #2

Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini, Declan Burke, Marcia Muller, Patti Abbott, Kat Richardson, Russel D. McLean, Scott Cupp, Ace Atkins, Scott Phillips, Cameron Hughes, C.J. Box, Denise Mina, S.J. Rozan, Charlaine Harris, Dean A. James, Joe R. Lansdale, Cornelia Read, Toni L.P. Kelner, Tom Piccirilli, Bill Crider, Don Winslow, Christa Faust, Jennifer Jordan, James Reasoner, Carolyn Haines, Gary Phillips, Anthony Neil Smith, Gar Anthony Haywood, Neal Barrett Jr., David Handler

400 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction mystery short stories dark mysterious reflective medium-paced