American Noir

Barry Forshaw is a leading expert on crime fiction and films from Britain and the European countries, but a further area of expertise is American crime fiction, film and TV. After the success of earlier entires in his 'Noir' series - Nordic Noir, Euro Noir and Brit Noir - he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the United States, to produce the perfect reader's guide to modern American crime fiction. The word 'Noir' is used in its loosest sense: every major living American writer is considered.