Black is the Night

About A.K. BenedictAna PereiraBill PronziniBrandon BarrowsCharles Ardai

Maxim Jakubowski is a noted anthology editor based in London just a mile or so away from where he was born. With over 70 volumes to his credit including Invisible Blood the 13 annual volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries and titles on Professor Moriarty Jack the Ripper Future Crime and Vintage whodunits. A publisher for over 20 years he was also the co-owner of London's Murder One bookstore and the crime columnist for Time Out and then The Guardian for 22 years. Stories from his anthologies have won most of the awards in the field on numerous occasions. He is currently the Chair of the Crime Writers' Association and a Sunday Times bestselling novelist in another genre. Bill Pronzini is an American writer of detective fiction. Pronzini is known as the creator of the San Francisco-based Nameless Detective who starred in over 40 books from the early 1970s into the 2000s. Brandon Barrows has published over seventy stories and the author of several novels. He is an active member of the Private Eye Writers of America and International Thriller Writers and was a 2021 Mustang Award finalist. Charles Ardai is the founder and editor of Hard Case Crime as well as an award-winning author. His five novels include the Shamus Award-winning SONGS OF INNOCENCE which the Washington Post called an instant classic. In addition to the Shamus Ardai has received the Edgar Allan Poe and Ellery Queen Awards. He was a writer and producer for six years on the TV series HAVEN inspired by Stephen King's first Hard Case Crime novel THE COLORADO KID. King has called him a true renaissance man and a master of the short story. Ardai lives in New York.