Mickey Finn Vol. 1: 21st Century Noir

Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir is a crime-fiction cocktail that will knock readers into a literary stupor. Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction driving their work into places short crime fiction doesnt 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. Like any good cocktail Mickey Finn is a heady mix of ingredients that packs a punch and when youve finished reading every story youll know that youve been slipped a Mickey. The twenty contributors some of todays 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.