A review by littletaiko
Dallas Noir by

3.0

I'm fairly sure that in general I'm not a huge fan of noir books as they are full of really depressing people doing all the wrong things. On the other hand I do enjoy reading books set in Dallas since that is where I live and it's always fun to see how the city is depicted. That brings me to this review - this is a collection of short stories set in various neighborhoods within the city. Some of these stories were really enjoyable and I found myself chuckling as I recognized the situations, part of the city, or types of people described. My favorites were Hole-Man, The Realtor, In the Air, Like Kissing Your Sister, An Angel from Heaven, and Coincidences Can Kill You. There were also some stories included that just didn't work for me. One other quibble is with how noir is or isn't defined here. I've always viewed it as a genre within the mystery realm with a crime occurring with some shady characters involved. Some of these stories didn't have any crime in them and the characters weren't shady, just pathetic.