Ebook: Crime plus music: the sounds of noir

Modern life seems to have a soundtrack for everything. Even crime.
Crime + Music collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors Brendan DuBois, Alison Gaylin, Craig Johnson, David Liss, Val McDermid, Gary Phillips, Peter Robinson and, from the music world, Galadrielle Allman, author of Please Be With Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman and award-winning songwriter-novelist Willy Vlautin. Edited by novelist and Wall Street Journal rock and pop music critic Jim Fusilli.
The lively anthology's chilling, sinister tales tap into the span of rock and pop history, ranging from Peter Blauner's heart-wrenching “The Last Temptation of Frankie Lymon" to Fusilli's “Boy Wonder," set in the world of contemporary electronic dance music; from Naomi Rand's “The Misfits," a punk-rock revenge saga to Mark Haskell Smith's menacingly comedic “1968 Pelham Blue SG Jr."; from Reed Farrel Coleman's study of a...