Akashic Noir: Montreal Noir (Paperback)

from abealy

My hometown can be as dark and desperate as any other town in the world. Certainly that is the impression I receive from reading Akashic Books' brilliant collection of seedy crime stories, Montreal Noir. Editors John McFetridge and Jacques Filippi travel from the west side to the gritty, dangerou...

from readafew

I believe this is the 4th book in the Akashic Noir series and I have to say, that this one (up to this point) is by far my favorite of them. I really liked the vast majority of the stories, each one sucked me in. Maybe being from the 'North' myself, I felt more connected to the underlying tone. A...

from midnightbunny

A panoply of somewhat macabre, yet incredibly interesting stories that make the reader feel as if they have stepped into a twilight zone of sorts... jumping from story to story, where you never know if the ending will be a good one or something even more dark, leaving you wondering what happens n...

from literatefool

Thoroughly enjoyable collection of stories. I admit that the first few seemed a bit slow to me, the rest gripped me and I enjoyed each one.

from DaveWilde

Akashic Noir has published nearly eighty volumes of short stories, each centered around a geographic location, and has another half dozen already in the pipeline. Each volume such as DC Noir, Brooklyn Noir, Los Angeles Noir, Mumbai Noir, features writers familiar with the local terrain, the local...