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Phoenix Noir (Akashic Noir)
Brand-new stories by: Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte.
Patrick Millikin is a bookseller at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale. As a freelance writer,
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Published
November 1st 2009
by Akashic Books
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After reading a description of Phoenix Noir (edited by Patrick Millikin), I was really looking forward to the book. It's a collection of murder mystery short stories set in the Phoenix Metro area. Being a resident of the Phoenix area and enjoying the works of Tony Hillerman and JA Jance whose mysteries are also set in the Southwest, I expected comparable writing. I was sorely disappointed.
Half of the stories in this anthology were, in my opinion, at the level of a community college creative writ...more
Half of the stories in this anthology were, in my opinion, at the level of a community college creative writ...more
Read and rated only Diana Gabaldon's story - Dirty Scottsdale. Nothing particularly exciting - nice AZ atmosphere, a couple of memorable characters, but Gabaldon needed another probably hundred pages to make this short mystery worthwhile (we all know how wordy she is). The ending of the story was choppy, easy, and unimpressive, as if wrapped up too early.
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I read this while visiting AZ, and enjoyed being able to picture where the stories took place. (Otherwise, I probably would have given it one star). Like most short story collections, it's very uneven, some stories are very well written, and then just end. I have a feeling some of the novelists who contributed have a hard time with the form...Also, this collection is not just dark, some of the stories are fairly gruesome.My favorites were Blazin' on Broadway (Gary Phillips), Dirty Scottsdale (Di...more
As the opening titles fade in Alfred Hitchcock's immortal film "Psycho," the camera begins to pan slowly across the gray urban landscape of Phoenix, Arizona in the late 1950s. Finally the camera selects a building and slowly zooms in through the open window of a seedy hotel room. Janet Leigh lies on the bed, wearing only a white slip and bra, and before her lover can even deliver the first line of dialogue, you know damn well that nothing good can possibly come of this.
Now, nearly fifty years l...more
Now, nearly fifty years l...more
I actually had to return this to the library before I got to read all the stories, but I hope to finish them all in good time. I hopped around through the anthology picking out the tales of various authors, some familiar, some brand new. There's some great stuff in here, and it was fun to recognize so many of the settings since I live in Phoenix. Dark stories about crime, murder and betrayal in the desert
Phoenix, a good place to be from, especially in August when the heat is triple digit. Not as many stories as you would think that elevate the heat as a character, but just as many dark and surprising endings as you would find in New Orleans and the other places of this series.
My fav Luis ALberto Urrea has a story in here which was nominated for the Edgar Award. OMG!! So, really, I'm just going to read that one story....my review will not be very accurate for the book as a whole.
Apr 10, 2011
Courtney Stockstill
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
No one
Shelves:
started-but-didn-t-finish
Not worth picking up. Just a bunch on short stories with no conclusions. I should have looked at the other reviews before starting this one. Most of the other reviews agree.... This book is junk.
Not bad -- typical mixed bag anthology. A couple of pretty good stories -- a couple of clunkers.
Of more interest to me since I used to live in Phoenix.
Eh.
I picked this up because Diana Gabaldon had a short story. Hers was ok, but some of the others were not.
Oct 25, 2009
E Goldberg
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1 of 5 stars
Recommended to E by:
globeglider@yahoo.com
Shelves:
notworthit,
short-stories
Not worth the time it takes to pick it up.
I'm reading this because Megan Abbott is one of the contributors and I think Abbott is fan-bloody-tastick. But the collecction nonetheless is not very exciting.
Finally read this collection of stories, having had it a while (thanks Pat!)
Interesting collection.....not really my scene but the best one was definitely by Diana Gabaldon, which is why we had the book in the first place.
Interesting collection.....not really my scene but the best one was definitely by Diana Gabaldon, which is why we had the book in the first place.
Read a few stories in this collection. Enjoyed Laura Tohe's "Tom Snag" and Luis Alberto Urrea's "Amapola."
I am addicted to this series!!
Do I begin at the very beginning? It's a very good place to start. Hmmmm.... Or, perhaps I will skip directly to Diana's short story, with Tom. I've been wanting to meet him for several years now.
Decisions, decisions.
Decisions, decisions.
I changed my mind about this one; I read a few stories, tried a few others but didn't make it through. I'm not interested in reading any more of them; was not impressed.
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Patrick Millikin is a bookseller at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale. As a freelance writer, his articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly, Firsts Magazine, Paradoxa, Yourflesh Quarterly, and other publications. Millikin currently lives in central Phoenix.
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