Denise Hamilton

Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics - Akashic Noir Denise Hamilton

Brief Description: The sequel to Los Angeles Noir, an award-winning Los Angeles Times bestseller. Biographical Note: Denise Hamilton writes the Eve Diamond series. Her books have been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony and Willa Cather awards. The Los Angeles Times named 'Last Lullaby' a 'Best Book of 2004' and it was also a USA Today Summer Pick and a finalist for a Southern California Booksellers Association 2004 award.'Publisher Marketing: From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in the City of Angels. Includes classic stories by: Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross MacDonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, and Yxta Maya Murray. Editor Denise Hamilton is the author of the Eve Diamond series and the editor of "Los Angeles Noir." Her latest novel, "Los Angeles Times" bestseller "The Last Embrace," has been compared to works by James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler. She lives in Los Angeles. Review Citations:

Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/15/2009 pg. 86 (EAN 9781936070022, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 02/08/2010 pg. 33 (EAN 9781936070022, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Hamilton, Denise Denise Hamilton is a writer-journalist whose work has appeared in the "Los Angeles Times", "Cosmopolitan", and "The New York Times" and is the author of five acclaimed Eve Diamond crime novels, "Prisoner of Memory", "Savage Garden", "Last Lullaby", "Sugar Skull", and "The Jasmine Trade", all of which have been "Los Angeles Times" bestsellers. She is also the editor of and a contributor to the short story anthology "Los Angeles Noir", winner of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Mystery of 2007. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young children. Visit her at www.denisehamilton.com.