Portland Noir

by Kevin Sampsell

Book Overview

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Jo lle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933354798
• ISBN13: 9781933354798
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Perfect Noir for summer reading

If you live, love or lay-over in PDX, this collection of dark, bitingly funny "noir" mysteries set in America's finest city is the perfect summer read. Copies are sold at "Murder By The Book" on Hawthorne. Each local author's story is contemporary and set in a recognizable neighborhood around PDX: St. John's, the Pearl, 82nd Ave, etc. One even happens in Dot's on Clinton Street (we always knew there was plotting going on there.) Extremely entertaining!

I can't believe I thought I lived in Portland.

It turns out, after reading this collection, that I've taken up residence in only a tiny corner of this complex city. From Skloot's crematorium overlooking nature trail leading to amusement park... to the rats and jewels beneath the streets in Little's "Shanghaied", I felt like I was getting a VIP tour of Portland at the hands of a perverse tour guide - who every so often would treat me to a beer. Dark and sexy, with equally surprising moments of humor and heart, Portland Noir is a refreshingly dimensional look at a city so often flattened by praise.