The noir form will be more than adequately represented at the upcoming Murder 203 event by authors Reed Farrel Coleman, Peter Spiegelman and Jason Starr.
The New York Times Book Review reported that "Among the undying conventions of detective fiction is the one that requires every retired cop to have a case that still haunts him. Reed Farrel Coleman blows the dust off that cliche."
The retired cop in question is Moe (Moses) Prager, who takes on a new career as a private investigator in 1980s New York City. Coleman won multiple awards for both The James Deans, the third title in the series, and Soul Patch, which came after that.
Publisher’s Weekly called Peter Spiegelman “one of today's best practitioners of neo-noir."
Spiegelman’s detective is John March, the black sheep of a staid merchant-banking family working as a private investigator in Manhattan. The first March mystery, Black Maps, was a Shamus award winner.
Jason Starr has eight non-series novels to his credit, including the award winning Twisted City, and he collaborates with writer Ken Bruen on a series for Hard Case Crime.
His book The Follower was dubbed “this generation's Looking for Mr. Goodbar.”
Starr’s books are also set in New York City.
All three authors are represented in Wall Street Noir, a collection of 17 stories with Spiegelman as the editor, and both Coleman and Starr (and Bruen too!) were contributors to the Hard Boiled Brooklyn anthology.
So don’t let the name Murder 203 fool you. We’re not just about suburban mysteries! There will be lots of talk about crime in the big city and one of our panels will address how urban crime differs from suburban crime.
Check the Murder 203 website for registration information.
