Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Setcombines all twenty-five stories from best sellerBoston Noir.

"Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys. [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has left people feeling crushed." --New York Times, on Boston Noir "The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of Milltown resentment and pampered preppies." --Boston Globe, on Boston Noir 2: The Classics

Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Set combines all twenty-five stories from best seller Boston Noir, edited by Dennis Lehane, and its sequel, Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Lehane, Mary Cotton & Jaime Clarke; featuring Lehane's own " Animal Rescue," the basis for the motion picture The Drop, and twenty-four classic noir stories set throughout Boston.

DENNIS LEHANE is the author of the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro mystery series ( A Drink before the War; Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; andMoonlight Mile), as well as Coronado(five stories and a play) and the award-winning novels Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day. M ystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone, Baby, Gonehave been made into award-winning films. He is the editor of Boston Noirand coeditor of Boston Noir 2: The Classics.