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A review by audreyintheheadphones
Seattle Noir by Lou Kemp, Simon Wood, G.M. Ford, Robert Lopresti, R. Barri Flowers, Curt Colbert, Patricia Harrington, Stephan Magcosta, Bharti Kirchner, Paul S. Piper, Thomas P. Hopp, Kathleen Alcalá, Skye Moody, Brian Thornton
3.0
A collection I wish would've been better. A handful of good stories -- Bharti Kirchner's "Promised Tulips", "The Best View in Town" by Paul S. Piper and Robert Lopresti's "The Center of the Universe" -- get practically buried in among a lot of mediocre stories that veer between sacrificing Seattle in the name of noir or vice versa.
You have to hang on til the bitter end to catch the anthology's two really outstanding stories, "The Magnolia Bluff" by Skye Moody and GM Ford's "Food for Thought", both of which are quick, clean and wonderfully terrible.
While it helps with most of the stories to have some familiarity with Seattle, those last two do a grand job of telling the city's story on their own merits.
You have to hang on til the bitter end to catch the anthology's two really outstanding stories, "The Magnolia Bluff" by Skye Moody and GM Ford's "Food for Thought", both of which are quick, clean and wonderfully terrible.
While it helps with most of the stories to have some familiarity with Seattle, those last two do a grand job of telling the city's story on their own merits.