A collection of stories from some of the best new and established crime and dark fiction writers from around the world. All with a dose of noir and dirty realism. John Bowie, M.E. Proctor, Mark Atley, Mark McConville, Max Thrax, M.Jack Hall, MJ Newman, Nathan Pettigrew, Paul D. Brazill, Phil Hurst, Richard Barr, Russell Day, Scott Cumming, Stephen J. Golds, Tom Leins, William R. Soldan, Wilson Koewing and Zakariah Johnson. [noir] a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity. a film or novel in the noir genre. [dirty realism] a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life It's meticulously researched; the style is an unforgiving dirty realism. — Times, Sunday Times (2013) - - -