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Columbus Noir

Availability: Out of Stock
ISBN: 9781617757655
AuthorWelsh-Huggins, Andrew
Pub Date19/03/2020
BindingTrade PB
Pages288
CountryUSA
Dewey808.83872
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
Quick overview "This superior Akashic noir anthology gathers 14 dark snapshots of Ohio's 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."
€13.91

"Like the rest of the state of Ohio, Columbus has been hit hard by the opioid crisis, and the stories included in Akashic's 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."

--CrimeReads, included in CrimeReads' Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020

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"Like the rest of the state of Ohio, Columbus has been hit hard by the opioid crisis, and the stories included in Akashic's 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."

--CrimeReads, included in CrimeReads' Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020

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