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“Sacramento Noir” is an upcoming anthology featuring 13 short stories penned by mostly local authors as part of the Akashic Books Noir Series, which publishes collections of noir short stories focused on different cities. Each story in the local volume is set in a different location, including Midtown in Sacramento and the Southport neighborhood in West Sacramento.
John Freeman, a Sacramento native and the book’s editor, says he proposed the book idea because he thought the city was fitting for the noir genre as an atmospheric location with a history that feels both present and very subtle.
“I feel like Sacramento is a much older and diverse city than people appreciate, and the contributors who were working on the stories chose neighborhoods where they could write directly into issues that face people in Sacramento — whether it’s housing or schooling,” Freeman says, adding that the authors also add their own “kind of spin of history and how neighborhoods hold and are changed by the passage of time.”
Events following the book’s release on March 4 will be held in local bookstores Time Tested Books, Avid Reader, Capital Books and Beers Books.