Mickey Finn Vol. 1

<pre spellcheck=false><i>Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir</i> is a crime-fiction cocktail that will knock readers into a literary stupor. <br><br>Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction driving their work into places short crime fiction doesn't often go into a world where the mean streets seem gentrified by comparison and happy endings are the exception rather than the rule. And they do all this in contemporary settings bringing noir into the 21st century. <br><br>Like any good cocktail Mickey Finn is a heady mix of ingredients that packs a punch and when you've finished reading every story you'll know that you've been slipped a Mickey. <br><br>The twenty contributors some of today's most respected short-story writers and new writers making their mark on the genre include J.L. Abramo Ann Aptaker Trey R. Barker Michael Bracken Barb Goffman David Hagerty James A. Hearn David H. Hendrickson Jarrett Kaufman Mark R. Kehl Hugh Lessig Steve Liskow Alan Orloff Josh Pachter Steve Rasnic Tem Mikal Trimm Bev Vincent Joseph S. Walker Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Stacy Woodson.</pre>