Showing Kingston Noir by Colin Channer

"Thoroughly well-written stories...fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering heat of the tropics.""--Publishers Weekly" ""Kingston Noir" subverts the simplistic sunshine/reggae/spliff-smoking image of Jamaica at almost every turn...The collection amply rewards the reader with a rich interplay of geographies and themes.""--The Los Angeles Times" ""Kingston Noir" goes darker and deeper than any before...the purest of noir, and the richest depictions of Jamaica.""--The Huffington Post" ""Kingston Noir" is an eclectic and gritty melange of tales that sears the imagination . . . "Kingston Noir" proves its worth as a quintessential piece of West Indian literature--rich, artistic, timeless, and above all, draped in unmistakable realism.""--The Gleaner" (Jamaica) "Drop your energetically touted 'best of' Jamaica brochures and sink your teeth into noir that bites back: the eleven wicked, wild, and unrepentant stories in "Kingston Noir" feature the talents of eminent voices in Jamaican fiction.""--Caribbean Beat" "Some of these stories are mysterious, some are straightforward, but all are dark. There isn't a single light-hearted story in the bunch, which falls in line perfectly with the noir theme. Readers beware, there are some stories in this book that address the darkest parts of human nature: rape, torture, murder. It's not for the faint of heart. However, they are all well-written and tap into the true underbelly of another culture."--Examiner "Several of the stories in "Kingston Noir" succeed brilliantly in reproducing the simultaneously estranging and horrifying effects of urban violence in Jamaica. And there is something appropriately unsettling about the differences between the stories, collected and edited by Colin Channer, such that the sense of being dislodged somewhere puzzlingly dissimilar from the place one began sometimes mimics the feeling of moving through Kingston... traversing this collection as if going 'down the road, ' wit