-
New Orleans Noir
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson, Vikas Adam, Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, Johnny Heller, William Dufris, Kevin Free, Mirron Willis, Aiello
- Series: Akashic Books: Noir
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $24.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Philadelphia Noir
- By: Carlin Romano
- Narrated by: Karen White, Andy Caploe, William Dufris, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 8
From the introduction to Philadelphia Noir: "America's first great city, first capital, and first industrial metropolis contained from the beginning the mix of poor workers and elite culture, of ethnic enclaves and religious intolerance, of easy skullduggery and flesh-pot possibilities, that led Lincoln Steffens in 1903 to famously rule it 'corrupt and contented'."
By: Carlin Romano
-
The World That Made New Orleans
- From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
- By: Ned Sublette
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 167
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 154
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 152
Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
great book; terrible "performance"
- By WGNYC on 11-28-17
By: Ned Sublette
-
Hidden History of New Orleans
- By: Josh Foreman, Ryan Starrett
- Narrated by: Josh Foreman
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
The history of New Orleans is one of contrasts: Heroes and villains, catastrophe and celebration, sinners and saints. In this New Orleans, a serial-killing axeman threatens to murder anyone not playing jazz. A fearless band of missionary nuns pushes to civilize the frontier. During World War II, Nazi U-boats lurk off the coast, while Denton Crocker's battle with local mosquitoes contributes to victory in the Pacific.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Good book, could use better pronounciation
- By Anna Glowacki on 04-03-22
By: Josh Foreman, and others
-
Haunted New Orleans: History & Hauntings of the Crescent City
- Haunted America Series
- By: Troy Taylor
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 8
New Orleans - the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz, home of Cafe du Monde, and what some call the most haunted city in America. Beneath the indulgence and revelry of the Crescent City lies a long history of the dark and mysterious. From the famous "Queen of Voodoo," Marie Laveau, who is said to haunt the site of her grave, to the wicked LaLauries, whose true natures were hidden behind elegance and the trappings of high society, New Orleans is filled with spirits of all kinds. Some of the ghosts in these stories have sordid and scandalous histories, while others are friendly specters.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Great book if you like history and ghost stories
- By Anonymous User on 12-27-21
By: Troy Taylor
-
The Last Madam
- A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
- By: Christine Wiltz
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 230
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 209
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 207
1916: Norma Wallace, age 15, arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie stars until she was arrested at last in 1962. Shortly before she died in 1974, she tape-recorded her memories. With those tapes and original research, Christine Wiltz chronicles Norma's rise and fall with the social history of New Orleans.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
pronunciations
- By lynda on 07-29-19
By: Christine Wiltz
-
Louisiana Hotshot
- Talba Wallis #1
- By: Julie Smith
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 105
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 94
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 93
Confirmed grump Eddie Valentino placed the ad. Hotshot 20-something Talba Wallis knew exactly how to answer it. And thus was born the dynamic duo of New Orleans private detectives, one cynical, 65-year-old Luddite white dude with street smarts, and one young, bright-eyed, 21st century African-American female poet, performance artist, mistress of disguise, and computer jock extraordinaire. Think Queen Latifah and Danny DeVito.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Not at All What It Seems
- By Megan P. on 12-31-16
By: Julie Smith
-
Philadelphia Noir
- By: Carlin Romano
- Narrated by: Karen White, Andy Caploe, William Dufris, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 8
From the introduction to Philadelphia Noir: "America's first great city, first capital, and first industrial metropolis contained from the beginning the mix of poor workers and elite culture, of ethnic enclaves and religious intolerance, of easy skullduggery and flesh-pot possibilities, that led Lincoln Steffens in 1903 to famously rule it 'corrupt and contented'."
By: Carlin Romano
-
The World That Made New Orleans
- From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
- By: Ned Sublette
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 167
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 154
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 152
Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
great book; terrible "performance"
- By WGNYC on 11-28-17
By: Ned Sublette
-
Hidden History of New Orleans
- By: Josh Foreman, Ryan Starrett
- Narrated by: Josh Foreman
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
The history of New Orleans is one of contrasts: Heroes and villains, catastrophe and celebration, sinners and saints. In this New Orleans, a serial-killing axeman threatens to murder anyone not playing jazz. A fearless band of missionary nuns pushes to civilize the frontier. During World War II, Nazi U-boats lurk off the coast, while Denton Crocker's battle with local mosquitoes contributes to victory in the Pacific.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Good book, could use better pronounciation
- By Anna Glowacki on 04-03-22
By: Josh Foreman, and others
-
Haunted New Orleans: History & Hauntings of the Crescent City
- Haunted America Series
- By: Troy Taylor
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 8
New Orleans - the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz, home of Cafe du Monde, and what some call the most haunted city in America. Beneath the indulgence and revelry of the Crescent City lies a long history of the dark and mysterious. From the famous "Queen of Voodoo," Marie Laveau, who is said to haunt the site of her grave, to the wicked LaLauries, whose true natures were hidden behind elegance and the trappings of high society, New Orleans is filled with spirits of all kinds. Some of the ghosts in these stories have sordid and scandalous histories, while others are friendly specters.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Great book if you like history and ghost stories
- By Anonymous User on 12-27-21
By: Troy Taylor
-
The Last Madam
- A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
- By: Christine Wiltz
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 230
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 209
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 207
1916: Norma Wallace, age 15, arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie stars until she was arrested at last in 1962. Shortly before she died in 1974, she tape-recorded her memories. With those tapes and original research, Christine Wiltz chronicles Norma's rise and fall with the social history of New Orleans.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
pronunciations
- By lynda on 07-29-19
By: Christine Wiltz
-
Louisiana Hotshot
- Talba Wallis #1
- By: Julie Smith
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 105
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 94
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 93
Confirmed grump Eddie Valentino placed the ad. Hotshot 20-something Talba Wallis knew exactly how to answer it. And thus was born the dynamic duo of New Orleans private detectives, one cynical, 65-year-old Luddite white dude with street smarts, and one young, bright-eyed, 21st century African-American female poet, performance artist, mistress of disguise, and computer jock extraordinaire. Think Queen Latifah and Danny DeVito.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Not at All What It Seems
- By Megan P. on 12-31-16
By: Julie Smith
-
L.A. Noir
- The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
- By: John Buntin
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 17 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 179
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 160
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 159
Midcentury Los Angeles: A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America", a land of sunshine and orange groves, Midwestern values, and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men - one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief - each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
A good (but a little corny) history of LA
- By Jimmy on 10-23-12
By: John Buntin
-
The Magic of Marie Laveau
- Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans
- By: Denise Alvarado
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 257
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 215
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 215
Marie Laveau may be the most influential American practitioner of the magical arts; certainly, she is among the most famous. She is the subject of songs, films, and legends and the star of New Orleans ghost tours. Her grave in New Orleans ranks among the most popular spiritual pilgrimages in the US. Author Denise Alvarado explores Marie Laveau's life and work - the fascinating history and mystery. This book gives an overview of New Orleans Voodoo, its origins, history, and practices. It contains spells, prayers, rituals, recipes, and more.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Cuts through the myths and reveals a multidimensional woman
- By Amazon Customer on 04-29-20
By: Denise Alvarado
-
Mr. New Orleans
- The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend
- By: Matthew Randazzo V, Frenchy Brouillette
- Narrated by: Louis Herthum
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 84
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Mr. New Orleans tells the incredible story of Frenchy Brouillette, a redneck Cajun teenager who stole his big brother's motorcycle and embarked on a 60-year vacation to New Orleans, where he became a legendary gangster and the underworld political fixer for his cousin, Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards. Written by Crescent City native Matthew Randazzo V, the wickedly funny Mr. New Orleans is the first book to ever break the code of secrecy of the New Orleans Mafia Family, the oldest and most mysterious criminal secret society in America.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wow
- By Joseph Slaton on 12-09-20
By: Matthew Randazzo V, and others
-
New Orleans Mysteries
- By: O'Neil De Noux
- Narrated by: John Tambascio
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
This new collection of mystery stories set in New Orleans features O'Neil De Noux's recurring characters - 1940s Private-eye Lucien Caye, 1890s NOPD Detective Jacques Dugas as well as NOPD Homicide Detectives John Raven Beau, and Dino LaStanza (he's back!). There are also a couple ghost stories, a maniac story, the gold bug of Jean Lafitte, a man with moon hands and a future-cop story with a guy named Max.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Reader needs to do his homework
- By Monique on 12-07-21
By: O'Neil De Noux
-
Harlem Shuffle
- A Novel
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,927
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,717
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,701
To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
What a rare pleasure
- By Lisa Braden on 09-27-21
By: Colson Whitehead
-
Nine Lives
- Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
- By: Dan Baum
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Dan Baum brings this kaleidoscopic portrait to life, showing us what was lost in the storm and what remains to be saved.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Do not miss if you're interested in New Orleans
- By Kelly on 03-22-18
By: Dan Baum
-
Robicheaux
- A Novel
- By: James Lee Burke
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,127
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,839
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,814
During a murder investigation, Dave Robicheaux discovers he may have committed the homicide he's investigating, one that involved the death of the man who took the life of Dave's beloved wife. As he works to clear his name and make sense of the murder, Robicheaux encounters a cast of characters and a resurgence of dark social forces that threaten to destroy all of those whom he loves.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
No One Writes Like James Lee Burke!!
- By NC-N-NC on 01-21-18
By: James Lee Burke
-
Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,066
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,625
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 2,616
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- By Jefferson on 02-13-11
By: Walter Mosley
-
Never Saw Me Coming
- A Novel
- By: Vera Kurian
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,560
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,392
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 1,389
Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths - students like herself who lack empathy and can’t comprehend emotions like fear or guilt. The study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smart watches that track their moods and movements. When one of the students in the study is found murdered in the psychology building, a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins, and Chloe goes from hunter to prey.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An enthusiastic 5 Stars
- By Samantha on 09-10-21
By: Vera Kurian
-
Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- By: Sheri Fink
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,059
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,777
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,782
In the tradition of the best writing on medicine, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the listener into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Must Read
- By Sharon on 09-13-13
By: Sheri Fink
-
Empire of Sin
- By: Gary Krist
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 283
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 250
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 248
Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' 30-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
very interesting
- By Claireoline on 02-20-15
By: Gary Krist
-
The Story of French New Orleans
- History of a Creole City
- By: Dianne Guenin-Lelle
- Narrated by: Sally Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 28
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 25
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 25
History, location, and culture continue to link New Orleans to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the US. This audiobook explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last 300 years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to understand the imprint that French sociocultural dynamic left on the Crescent City.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
The most non-american US city
- By Kingsley on 08-27-18
Publisher's Summary
Beneath the glitter of Mardi Gras lies the sleaze of Bourbon Street; under the celestial sounds of JazzFest, the nightmare screams of a city once at war within its neighborhoods, but after Hurricane Katrina, seemingly at war with nature and the rest of the country as well. New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation. It's everyone's seamy underside, the city where respectable citizens go to get drunk, puke in the gutter, dance on tabletops, and go home with strangers, all without guilt. It's the metropolitan equivalent of eating standing up - if it happened in New Orleans, it doesn't count. The city was always the home of the lovable rogue, the poison magnolia, the bent politico, the sociopathic street thug, and, especially, the heartless con artist - but in post-Katrina times it struggles against... well, the same old problems, just writ large and with a new breed of carpetbagger thrown in. Combine all that with a brilliant literary tradition and you have New Orleans Noir, a sparkling collection of tales exploring the city's wasted, gutted neighborhoods, its outwardly gleaming "sliver by the river," its still-raunchy French Quarter, and other hoods so far from the Quarter they might as well be on another continent. It also looks back into the past, from that recent innocent time known in contemporary New Orleans as "pre-K," to the mid-nineteenth century, the other time the city was mostly swampland.
The complete list of narrators includes: Allyson Johnson, Vikas Adam, Kevin T. Collins, Tom Stechschulte, Robin Miles, Jennifer Van Dyck, Johnny Heller, Lisa Renee Pitts, William Dufris, Kevin Free, Nick Sullivan, Therese Plummer, Mirron Willis, J. W. Wilburn, Lauren Fortgang, Raquel Lozano, Andy Caploe, and Aiello.
More from the same
Author
What listeners say about New Orleans Noir
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Becky
- 03-26-15
Diverse as the City
Made me homesick for the city of my birth. I smelled forgotten smells and saw forgotten scenes in the stories.
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall1 out of 5 stars
-
Performance1 out of 5 stars
-
Story1 out of 5 stars
- John Wiebe
- 12-28-19
Boring
The stories are very boring with nothing to them! I couldn’t even get past the first two. Maybe they get better, but not worth my time even if I am driving for 14 hours.
