A Man by Keiichirō Hirano
It all makes for a rather melancholy and -- in its complicated investigations and its details -- oddly wending-all-over-the-place novel, but also an interesting...
Tag: Noir
A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier
What an odd little book. Bills itself as noir but veers close to black comedy. It is French so perhaps I should have expected weird … :-)
The Eskimo Solution by Pascal Garnier
I usually stray away from noir-themed books due to their very nature, but this book intrigued me based on the plot. Like all noir novels, this is a bleak and de...
Nickel Plated by Aric Davis
One of those experiments that works well for some, not at all for others, but can be appreciated by many. You may or may not buy the premise, but the unique st...
The Panda Theory by Pascal Garnier
An interesting literary novella that bills itself as noir but veers close to black comedy. Well done characters and setting but something of an awkward shift to...
This Is How You Fall by Keith Dixon
Dixon brings a literary sensibility to the story even as he uses these familiar structures and blends in the noir and heist elements. It is the elegance with w...
Little Elvises (The Junior Bender Series) by Timothy Hallinan
Junior Bender joins Poke Rafferty and Simeon Grist as Hallinan characters sure to have a cult following.
First-rate detectives are like good lovers and good novelists
Tara McKelvey makes me want to read Jonathan Rabb's The Second Son (Berlin Trilogy) based on the last two paragraphs of her review in the NYTRB.