If you're looking for foggy, dimly lit alleys echoing with the click-clack of a dame's high-heeled shoes, where a mook stiffs you for a drink, and where a glance can kill, look no further. Iced is the best in contemporary Canadian noir fiction. Sixteen stories from both award-winning veteran crime writers and a new generation of gritty urban authors, Iced boldly defies the notion that Canadians are nicer than everyone else. Isolation, anxiety, and survival — staple themes of CanLit — are the foundations of noir. These powerful narratives feature street-savvy protagonists and corrupt characters struggling to find order, meaning, or maybe even redemption in a world of corruption, lust, mystery, and revenge. A world that's been Iced.

Kerry Schooley lives and writes in Hamilton, Ontario. His noir fiction has been published in numerous magazines and an anthology of short mystery fiction. He hosts a Web site: www.murderoutthere.com.

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Peter Sellers is an award-winning writer who founded and edited the critically acclaimed Cold Blood anthology series. In 2001, Sellers won the Ellery Queen Readers Award for his story "Avenging Miriam." He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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