Columbus Noir [Paperback]

This superior Akashic noir anthology gathers 14 dark snapshots of Ohios capital, a very dangerous place indeed, with heavy drug use and murder touching down everywhere, from the German Village neighborhood to the statehouse . . . Noir fans should be well satisfied. The latest stage in Akashics master plan to paint the world black is marked by 14 new stories . . . and the different shades of noir they invoke, from light gray to pitch black. Like the rest of the state of Ohio, Columbus has been hit hard by the opioid crisis, and the stories included in Akashics ode to the city are as full of misery as the city currently is in real life. Moments of humanity shine through in many of the tales in this collection, and epic takes on pride and greed make many of the stories in this collection go beyond small miseries into the realm of Shakespearian tragedy. Urgent, beautiful, and not to be missed. Femmes fatales, shady clubs and antiheroes: all the elements are here in?Columbus Noir, a satisfying collection of 14 stories by some of Ohios best authors, in a series of more than a hundred books in an award-winning series that includes locales like?