city of dead names

Edited by Jennifer Grant

Everybody has a past. Everybody has secrets. And some names are better left buried.

CITY OF DEAD NAMES brings together a bold collection of crime stories centered on trans lives, trans characters, and the dangerous territory between who the world says we are and who we know ourselves to be.

Across mysteries, noir, psychological suspense, and hard-edged crime, these stories follow detectives and suspects, victims and survivors, criminals and fugitives, lovers and liars—people navigating a world where identity can be a weapon, a disguise, a secret, a refuge, or a matter of life and death.

Some are searching for the truth. Some are running from it.

Some want justice.

Others want revenge.

And some simply want to survive the night.

Dark, provocative, sometimes brutal, sometimes funny, and deeply human, CITY OF DEAD NAMES refuses easy heroes, easy villains, and easy answers. These are stories about crimes committed against us, crimes committed by us, and the things people do to protect the lives they fought to make their own.