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The Paris Noir Kindle e-Book Collection

Although the Paris Noir collection takes its name from the classic period of crime cinema, it draws upon elements of the noir genre rather than focus exclusively upon it. The planned quartet of novels located itself in the first decades of the 21st century in Western Europe with the novels bringing to life certain sub-cultures in the cities of Paris, London and Manchester from the anti-capitalist protests of 1999-2001 to the state of emergency caused by war and terrorism in Europe before, up to and through the coronavirus pandemic. Characters reappear throughout the sequence of books, while real events are fictionalised and the novels seek to integrate elements of memoir with literary fiction and genre writing.

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"September" - Serialised in 5 eBooks.
The opening novel of a proposed quartet of serialised eBook takes place between Manchester, London and Paris charting some of the events of the anti-globalisation movement 2000-2002. The first part of this political crime drama reunites two friends in the event of the funeral of an old comrade in Manchester. As familiar figures return to the landscape, Mark and Jamie vow to get to the bottom of their acquaintance's death, so embarking upon an overnight trip to London upon the even of a May Bank Holiday Monday.
Book I:
Returning to his hometown of Manchester for the first time in nearly four years, Mark looks for Jamie at the funeral of Paul Hulme, and an older acquaintance recently released from prison. Now 2004, the origins of Mark and Jamie's story take them back to Millennium year in Manchester and London. Following Jamie's trail over that weekend, Mark learns that ex-con Paul was not alone in the city on the day that he died in a traffic accident.
Book II to be released in January 2023.

“Porte Saint-Denis”- Episode #1
Set a year or two after the 2008-9 Banking Crisis, an English-speaking woman arrives off the train in Paris during one of the May public holidays. The weekend ahead is one where the city partially empties and French workers take off a few extra days to form a bridge or ‘pont’ running into the next week. The woman is there to locate a young woman and her cousin for a wealthy American woman. Although she is familiar with the city, from the outset she attracts unwelcome attention from the streets. Tthe stakes are high given the high-profile double murder of a young American from a wealthy family, found in his hotel room with a a young escort from the east.
Episode #2 to be released in January 2023.

“The Wisdom of Sake”- stories written by P Delorme, translated by Daniel L Rayburn.

A translation by Daniel Rayburn of an illustrated collection by Pierre Delorme, The Wisdom of Sake includes nine stories that depict life in Japan in the sixteenth century. The protagonists are essentially samurai ut other characters appear such as an African called The Black Tiger, who was the servant of a Jesuit before he became samurai and adviser to a high-ranking general. He will have a bright existence but a tragic destiny.

The author Pierre Delorme lived many years in the Land of the Rising Sun and offers a narrative based on solid historical and cultural foundations to make this book “complete” and universal. He was a former top sportsman in two disciplines, boxing and kendo. His novels, essays and short stories are inseparable from his life of a great, cultivated traveler and inhabited by the passion of a lifetime: Japan.

About the author

Daniel L Rayburn is a British writer, editor and translator currently working in southern Spain. The ideas and experiences forming the basis for his new fiction collection published for Kindle stem from periods of his life spent in Paris and the French Côte d’Azur, as well as earlier years living in Manchester and London.

Besides his professional activity, since his graduation the author has engaged in research into philosophy and the theory of politics. He continues this intellectual interest through his writings in the blogosphere and an intention to launch a series of non-fiction eBooks in the coming year entitled “Reflections”. This series will tackle contemporary questions of geopolitics, cultural movements and economic transformation principally in Europe and the Atlantic nations over the first decades of the 21st century.

He also has plans to publish some short monographs on contemporary arts and culture reflecting a long-standing interest in Internet culture, cinema & television and the history of rock & pop music.