Sunshine Noir by Annamarie Alfieri & Michael StanleyCondition: New In these stories, seventeen writers from around the globe tell of dark doings in sunny places. Join them in the Dominican Republic, the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, chic Mykonos, Seville at midnight, and on the morning beachfront of Ghana where a man has revenge on his mind. Follow an NGO worker kidnapped in Yemen, an engineer repairing a dam in turmoil torn Ethiopia, a foolish young Englishman hitchhiking across the Sahara. You will

As a hunted man without a home

When their English cousin

more pressing problems too

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Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city

Then one evening

in literature

tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey

He hires Mikael Blomkvist

With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison

The fall of the caliphate only brought new challenges to women no state wanted to reclaim

Sindiwe Magona imagines how easily it might have been her own son caught up in the violence of that day