Akashic Noir: Long Island Noir (eBook)

from abealy

Brooklyn-based Akashic Press has covered the world with their classic “noir” series of short story collections. From Baltimore Noir to Wall Street Noir and over fifty cities in between the series defines the meaning of the seamier, darker side of life — often with a twist of the raw and a dash of...

from shabacus

I have lived on Long Island for the last five years, and during that time, I have gotten to know my adopted home pretty well. So when I had the chance to read this book, I was very excited. However, "Long Island" is only half of the title, and when I started to read, I realized that however much ...

from SamSattler

Long Island Noir, by my count the fiftieth offering in the Akashic Noir Series, is a nice collection of seventeen short stories devoted to Long Island's dark side. Noir fiction, by definition, focuses on the darkness hidden within every human being and what happens when that dark side is allowed ...

from RidgewayGirl

Long Island Noir fully fills only the first half of its title; while all of the stories are set on Long Island, quite a few are not noir. Noir is a sort of off-shoot of those pulp fiction hardboiled tales featuring disgraced private eyes encountering the seamy side of life. It focuses on the dark...

from mclane

The latest in Akashic Books "Noir" series, this is a collection of short stories set on Long Island. As the name implies, each story is about crime and/or some other dark theme. The quality of the stories vary, but all of them are pretty good. Each is set in a different Long Island town, and they...