If you like your detectives hardboiled and your femmes fatale, you’ll dig Flavorwire’s list of ten essential neo-noir authors.
From Dennis Lehane (author of Shutter Island and Mystic River) to Lindsay Hunter (the heir apparent to Mary Gaitskill’s throne), these writers incorporate elements of mystery and horror without letting the strictures of genre limit them.
Our essays editor Roxane Gay made the list for her “modern-day…examples of the darkness that waits around almost every corner, lives next door, or perhaps grew up in your very own house.”
