O-H-Oh-No! Fourteen storytellers reveal a gritty side to C-Bus in this collection of crime tales.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.
With stories by: Lee Martin, Robin Yocum, Kristen Lepionka, Craig McDonald, Chris Bournea, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Tom Barlow, Mercedes King, Daniel Best, Laura Bickle, Yolonda Tonette Sanders, Julia Keller, Khalid Moalim, and Nancy Zafris.
Praise for Columbus Noir
"Moments of humanity shine through in many of the tales in this collection, and epic takes on pride and greed make many of the stories in this collection go beyond small miseries into the realm of Shakespearian tragedy. Urgent, beautiful, and not to be missed." - CrimeReads, included in CrimeReads' Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020
"This superior Akashic noir anthology gathers 14 dark snapshots of Ohio's capital, a very dangerous place indeed, with heavy drug use and murder touching down everywhere, from the German Village neighborhood to the statehouse. One highlight is Craig McDonald's "Curb Appeal," one of several invoking the homicidal search for housing. In the editor's effective "Going Places," a security man who covers up affairs for the governor gets pulled into a murder plot.... Noir fans should be well satisfied." - Publishers Weekly

Andrew Welsh-Huggins, an editor and reporter for the Associated Press in Columbus, is the author of nonfiction books on the death penalty and terrorism, and six novels about private eye Andy Hayes, an ex-Ohio State and Cleveland Browns quarterback turned investigator. Welsh-Huggins's short story "The Murderous Type" won the 2017 Al Blanchard Award for best New England short crime fiction.

Introduction

Part I: Sin in Cbus
"The Satin Fox" by Robin Yocum (Victorian Village)
"Gun People" by Kristen Lepionka (Olde Towne East)
"Curb Appeal" by Craig McDonald (German Village)
"My Name Is Not Susan" by Chris Bournea (Eastmoor)

Part II: Capital Offenses
"Going Places" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Ohio Statehouse)
"Honor Guard" by Tom Barlow (Clintonville)
"An Agreeable Wife for a Suitable Husband" by Mercedes King (South End)
"Take the Wheel" by Daniel Best (Short North)
"The Dead and the Quiet" by Laura Bickle (Union Cemetery)

Part III: Buckeye Betrayals
"The Luckiest Man Alive" by Lee Martin (San Margherita)
"The Valley" by Yolanda Tonette Sanders (Whitehall)
"All That Burns the Mind" by Julia Keller (Ohio State University)
"Long Ears" by Khalid Moalim (North Side)
"Foreign Study" by Nancy Zafris (West Broad Street)