Showing results for "Lucy" in Noir

Dani hasn't had an easy life. She's made some bad choices, and now she's paying the ultimate price: prison. With her young daughter, Bethany, growing up in foster care, Dani is determined to be free and reunited with her. There's only one problem: Dani can't stay out of trouble. Dani's new cellmate, Martha, is quiet and unassuming. There's something about her that doesn't add up. When Martha offers Dani one last chance at freedom, she doesn't hesitate.

Tout le monde dit d'Ava qu'elle est un monstre. Tout le monde sauf Ava. Après vingt-cinq ans passés derrière les barreaux, celle que l'on surnomme "l'Oiseau boucher" est désormais libre. Enfin, libre, un bien grand mot pour cette quinqua qui doit désormais rendre des comptes réguliers à une conseillère désabusée, remettre ses émotions entre les mains d'un psy aigri et vivre sous une fausse identité dans une ville qu'elle ne peut quitter. Heureusement, il y a Bill, son gentil voisin, un ancien SDF qui tente de se racheter auprès des siens. Un ami pour Ava, peut-être plus.

Berlin does not make it easy to write noir fiction - or perhaps Berlin makes it too easy. Noir tradition casts a long, influential, and even daunting shadow. Neither Döblin nor Benn, Brecht nor Lang, catered to any crime fiction traditions. They merely steeped their literary projects in a great deal of noir. And so it is with most of the stories in our anthology: they do not necessarily follow the usual patterns of crime fiction, but regard noir as a license to write as they wish, a certain way of approaching the city, and a prism through which its nature is viewed....

'Extremely scary scandi-noir…first class’ Daily Mail * * * * * The perfect wife. The perfect mother. The perfect lie. A gripping page-turner for fans of Shari Lapena, Michelle Sacks’s You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darker side of marriage, motherhood and friendship...