Miami Noir -- The Classics (Akashic Noir Series), Edited by Les Standiford
Miami Noir -- The Classics (Akashic Noir Series), Edited by Les Standiford
Despite the fact that 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, in some tough cities, a reader of a story set in those locales might be forgiven for expecting the worst; but when calamity takes place against the backdrop of paradise, as we have here in Miami, the impact is all the greater. --- Les Standiford, from the Introduction.
AKASHIC BOOKS, SOFTCOVER, 2019
THIS IS A BRAND-NEW BOOK.