Singapore Noir [Paperback]

Suchen Christine Lim's story Mei Kwei, I Love You has been named a finalist for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story!

Singapore Noirhas been nominated for aPopular Bookstore Reader's Choice Award!

Singapore, with its great wealth and great poverty existing amid ethnic, linguistic, and cultural tensions, offers fertile ground for bleak fiction, as shown by the 14 tales in this solid Akashic noir anthology...Tan has assembled a strong lineup of Singapore natives and knowledgeable visitors for this volume exploring the dark side of a fascinating country.
--Publishers Weekly

Singapore Noiris the latest in Akashic's long-running and globetrotting Noir series, giving plenty of new and unfamiliar voices a chance to shine.
--San Francisco Book Review

Singapore Noiris another fine addition to the Akashic's Noir series. Under Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan's tutelage, the stories puncture the stereotypes associated with Singapore and push the genre in new directions.
--Chicago Center for Literature and Photography

Included in Recent Books of Note,Toronto Star

Across the book as a whole a picture emerges of Singapore, an image at variance with tourist board literature and with the popular conception of a safe but over-controlled conformist society.
--Crime Review(UK)

Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best sellerBrooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Brand-new stories by:Colin Goh, Simon Tay/Donald Tee Quee Ho, Philip Jeyaretnam, Colin Cheong, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Monica Bhide, S.J. Rozan, Lawrence Osborne, Suchen Christine Lim, Ovidia Yu, Damon Chua, Johann S. Lee, Dave Chua, l)