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Old 03-09-2009, 10:59 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I was in my friendly neighborhood bookstore looking for that Steve Harvey book and spotted "trinidad noir" on another shelf and I picked it up. Now I can't put it down. Trinidad Noir is part of the "Noir Series" by Akashic Books, there are 3 Brooklyn Noirs, Manhattan, New Orleans, Havana, Paris, you get the picture, they're all crime fiction anthologies and each story is a crime that is taking place in a certain part of the city or country. anyway if you haven't already read them I highly suggest it.

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Here's a synopisis on the Trinidad Noir.
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Launched by the summer '04 award-winning, best-seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series

Brand-new stories by: Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, Vahni Capildeo, Willi Chen, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Rian Marie Extavour, Keith Jardim, Jaime Lee Loy, Darby Maloney, Reena Andrea Manickchand, Judith Theodore, Tiphanie Yanique, and others.

Trinidad Noir delivers all the crime a reader expects from Akashic's Noir Series: murder, kidnapping, rape, drugs, prostitution, theft, extortion, and more. Yet in fictionalizing crime in the real crime setting of Trinidad, acclaimed authors Lawrence Scott, Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Ramabai Espinet, Keith Jardim, Tiphanie Yanique, Willi Chen, and others have created a decidedly literary noir collection.

These authors' quality characterizations, plots, and styles concurrently reveal the country's darkness and its appeal with an unexpected and gratifying result: In their captivating and occasionally humorous stories, the Trinidad that emerges is as intriguing and contradictory as the island and its people. Trinidad Noir is as much a delightful crime romp as it is an expose of the seedy side of life.

Lisa Allen-Agostini is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the author of a children's novel, The Chalice Project (forthcoming, 2008). An award-winning journalist, she is the Internet editor and a columnist with the Trinidad Guardian.

Jeanne Mason is a freelance editor who also writes short stories and poetry. She has lived in Paris, France, where she edited medical articles for U.S. and U.K. journals. She currently resides in Trinidad and Tobago.
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This was actually pretty good. I'm not really into the short stories thing but they were enjoyable. Esp the one about making copies in the national archives...I was laughing all thru that one. A couple of them were actually dark and serious but most of them had me laughing.
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