Miami Noir -- The Classics (Akashic Noir Series), Edited by Les Standiford
Miami Noir -- The Classics (Akashic Noir Series), Edited by Les Standiford
Even though Miami has in the past decade-plus added a downtown performing arts complex to outdo all, but the Kennedy Center in D.C, a jaw-dropping art museum by the Biscayne Bay, an exemplary science museum, the establishment of the world-renowned Art Basel festival on Miami Beach, and so much more, the operative literary form to portray Miami -- the essential aria of the Magic City -- is spun from threads of mystery and yearning and darkness.
When terrible things threaten in some ominous neighborhoods or challenging cities, a reader of a story set in those locales might be forgiven for expecting the worst. Still, the impact is all the more significant when calamity takes place against the backdrop of paradise, as we have here in Miami. --- Les Standiford, from the Introduction.
AKASHIC BOOKS, SOFTCOVER, 2019
THIS IS A BRAND-NEW BOOK.