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Providence Noir, Edited by Ann Hood


Providence was founded in 1636 by a rogue named Roger Williams. He escaped here when Massachusetts was ready to deport him back to England. In the almost four hundred years since, we've become infamous for all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, including serving as the home base for the Patriarca crime family for decades. My very own Uncle Eddie -- I can hear Mama Rose screaming at me: "He wasn't a blood relative; he was related through marriage!" -- was gunned down in the Silver Lake section of town in 1964, just a year after he drove me in his white Cadillac convertible in a parade as the newly crowned Little Miss Natick. The writer Geoffrey Wolff told me that once he went to a barber in Princeton, New Jersey, and the barber asked him where he was from. "Providence," Wolff told him. The barber put down his scissors, raised his hands in the air, and said, "Providence? Don't shoot!"


I've asked fourteen of my favorite writers to contribute short stories to Providence Noir. We have stories to make you shiver, stories to make you think stories that will show you my beautiful, noirish city in a way it's never been highlighted before.


Ann Hood, from the introduction


Akashic Books, Softcover, 2015


THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.

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