Of
course, I'm happy about this review because my story is
mentioned, but I'm sure it's of interest to the group, so I
have a good excuse to send it around! Vicki Miami Noir
Standiford, Les (Editor) Series Title: Akashic Noir ISBN:
1933354135 Akashic Books Published 2006-11 Paperback , $15.95
(355p) Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction |
Mystery & Detective - General Ages Reviewed 2006-09-25
Publisher's Weekly Sixteen new, diverse and highly
entertaining mystery stories pack Akashic's latest
city-by-city tour of modern noir, spotlighting the "Miami
School," which has sprung to dynamic life in the wake of the
legendary Charles Willeford and his signature novel Miami
Blues . This anthology prowls through South Beach and across
Alligator Alley, hitting every demographic, from long-term
Cuban 魩gr鳠 to Haitian boat people and the garden variety
psychopathic redneck. In James W. Hall's "Ride Along," a
college professor with an interest in crime writing goes
slumming with a thug called Jumpy-"6'4", skinny as a
greyhound, pasty-skinned, all knuckles and Adam's apple"-with
unexpected results. Vicki Hendricks does a neat
deconstruction of classic noir with "Boozanne, Lemme Be,"
wherein the 4'10" protagonist-"too short for normal chicks,
too tall for a dwarf"-lives undetected under a house until he
connects with the titular Boozanne and dives still further
into ruin. This volume is as solid as the coral rock lying
beneath the Miami streets.(Nov.)
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