Booting Up Mystery: TechnoNoir

Award-winning writer Jeffrey Marks, Eva Batonne Co-edit New Mystery Anthology

Austin, TX (PRWEB) August 11, 2005 -- Award-winning mystery writer Jeffrey Marks teams up with talented newcomer Eva Batonne and the likes of Michael Bracken and Libby Fischer Hellmann to explore crime in the new millennium in the new anthology from Zumaya Publications: TechnoNoir.

Ever-more-sophisticated technology has made law enforcement easier. Unfortunately, it has also made lawbreaking easier as well. This eclectic collection of 18 tales by veteran mystery writers with a seasoning of promising new talent explores both the light and dark side of technology and the law.

I found the idea of Techno-Noir irresistible as a theme for a mystery anthology," writes co-editor Batonne in her introduction. Ours is a perplexing quandary as reality becomes increasingly plugged in. It endlessly begs the question whether this miracle of technology truly serves our humanity or detracts from it. In this collection of short mystery stories by both established and emerging mystery authors we ponder the predicament of morality and technology. In the tradition of great mystery writing there is a making right," but in the noir genre justice can be more ambiguous and even illusory."

TechnoNoir is now available in trade paperback and ebook editions, and can be purchased online at Booksurge (http://www.booksurge.com), Fictionwise (http://www.fictionwise.com) and eBookAd (http://www.ebookad.com). The book will also soon be available at Amazon.com and via special order to Borders stores using BordersStores.com or the in-store Title Sleuth system.

Zumaya Publications of Garibaldi Highlands, British Columbia, (http://www.zumayapublications.com) was established in 2000 to offer readers an alternative to the usual. Zumaya publishes cutting edge fiction and thought-provoking nonfiction in trade paperback and ebook editions. Zumaya titles have won numerous awards, including the EPPIE Award for quality in published ebooks, the Dream Realm Award for excellence in ebook-published speculative fiction, and have been finalists in both the RIO and RWA FF&P Prism Award.

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