Best known for his roles in Love/Hate and The Umbrella Academy, Sheehan has received widespread critical acclaim for his acting talentIn his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles.Informed by the author's peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Robert Sheehan is one of Ireland's brightest stars of the screen, both at home and abroad. It also includes entries by Timothy Taylor, Sheena Kamal, Robin Spano, Carleigh Baker, Dietrich Kalteis, Nathan Ripley, Yasuko Thanh, Kristi Charish, Don English, Nick Mamatas, S.G. Richards, and the Arthur Ellis Award-finalist “Wonderful Life” by Sam Wiebe. Vancouver Noir features the Arthur Ellis Award-winning story “Terminal City” by Linda L. These fourteen stories of crime and mayhem in the Pacific Northwest offer an entertaining “mix of wily pros, moody misfits, bewildered bystanders, and a touch of the supernatural” (Kirkus). Hidden beneath Vancouver’s gleaming glass skyscrapers are shadowy streets where poverty, drugs, and violence rule the day. But if look a little closer at this gentrified paradise, you’ll find the old saying holds true: behind every fortune there’s a crime. For many people, Vancouver is a city of affluence, athleisure, and craft beer. Richards, Sam Wiebe, Yasuko Thanh and more (Quill & Quire, starred review). This “excellent anthology” of noir fiction set in Canada’s City of Glass features all-new stories by Linda L.
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