A review by lande4981
Kingston Noir by Colin Channer

5.0

#KingstonNoir This is a an amazing set of stories. Some of them were simply stunning not just in execution but in content. As the name suggests, 'Kingston Noir' explores the dark side of the Jamaican city and its people. I both recognised my city and saw it for the first time in these stories. They remind me that I don't read enough Jamaican fiction and that is a situation that needs to be rectified, there are authors here that need not just to be simply read but devoured - such as Patricia Powell who penned the tale "Tomcat Beretta" about a woman out for revenge and justice; or Marlon James who raised very painful memories for me in his story "Immaculate" about the brutal death of a teenage girl and the futility of seeking justice; or Christopher John Farley who relates the story of two brothers and their search for a missing girl in "54-46 (That's My Number"); or the truly truly haunting story of a women who takes the only way she knows out of a twisted and damaging relationship in Leone Ross' "Roll it".

Highly highly recommended.