Akashic Noir: Mississippi Noir (Hardcover)

from Beamis12

From Tom Franklin's potent introduction , stating the grim statistics that haunt Mississippi's denizens, and of course the title itself, the reader is made fully aware that these stories will be about the downtrodden. Those who live in trailers, drugs, drinking, often there own worse enemies, hoo...

from SamSattler

Mississippi Noir is the latest collection of dark crime stories in the long running series of similar titles from Akashic Books, and it's another good one. The first hint of what to expect from the book's sixteen stories comes in the blunt opening paragraph of Tom Franklin's two-page introduction...

from mandy42990

This book is a great introduction to the noir genre, but it helped me discover that I am not a fan. These stories were easier to swallow than I anticipated, but were dark without being redemptive or having any deeper meaning that I could find. I do appreciate the layout of the book divisions. Sto...

from gincam

"Mississippi Noir" starts off with a bang with a short story from one of my favorite authors, Ace Atkins. His "Combustible", kicks off part one--"Conquest & Revenge"--of this anthology of Southern Crime Noir from sixteen top suspense writers. The other three sections are "Wayward Youth", "Bloodli...

from BradKautz

Mississippi Noir is a collection of short-stories in the noir genre, all set in Mississippi. It is a really wonderful collection of sixteen stories by sixteen authors, some being published for the first time and others, such as Chris Offutt, already possessing a wide readership. Some of these sto...