Berlin Noir

"A volume of short stories that revolve around the history, geography and literary traditions of Berlin."—New York Times Book Review, "Globetrotting," April 2019"The 13 stories in this welcome entry in Akashic's noir series, all set in 21st-century Berlin, are less about traditional crime and more likely to involve gentrification, immigrants, or Airbnb...There's more than enough variety to entertain most readers."—Publishers Weekly"A city with a rich noir past looks beyond its history to an equally unsettling present...Wörtche keeps his promise to show Berlin as 'always moving forward in the present' in this determinedly contemporary but genuinely noir collection."—Kirkus Reviews"Dora" by Zoë Beck selected as Robert Lopresti's Best Mystery Story of the WeekAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book...