A review by mizzelle
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories by Megan Abbott, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Andrew Vachss, Duane Swierczynski, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer

3.0

L.A. Noire: Collected Stories was a short story anthology released to coincide with the LA Noire game with stories by various crime and fiction writers. The best ones felt like noir -- inevitable and twisted. I particularly liked Megan Abbott's creepy description of a Hollywood party in "The Girl" or how Francine Prose turned the Method acting to the extreme in "School for Murder". Weirdest story had to be Joyce Carol Oates' "Black Dahlia & White Rose" mixing two very different Hollywood icons in a stream of conscious jumble.