Belfast Noir - Akashic Noir Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still lurk.Featuring brand-new stories by Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley-Ed... more »wards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan.Adrian McKinty was born in the Belfast suburb of Carrickfergus. His first crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was short-listed for the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. His Belfast-based novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013 Spinetingler Award.Stuart Neville's debut novel The Ghosts of Belfast won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was picked as one of the top crime novels of 2009 by the New York Times. His subsequent three novels have been short-listed for various awards.« less