Tag Archives: noir

Lagos Noir – Chris Abani (Editor)

Posted on June 19, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) I have never been to Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria and actually, the largest city in the entire African continent. In fact, I have never been anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa. That said, I enjoyed the … Continue reading →

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Mygale – Thierry Jonquet (Translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith)

Posted on October 30, 2017 by J D Jung

Ah, revenge can be so sweet. Now mix it with obsession and a touch of madness, and it turns utterly twisted and bizarre.  Such is the case with the intense and fascinating novel, Mygale, written by the late French crime … Continue reading →

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The Painted Gun – Bradley Spinelli

Posted on March 30, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I was in it now, there was no getting out. But since Ashley was painting creepy snapshots of my life, I guess I was always in it. The fact that I didn’t know what I was … Continue reading →

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Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large – Walter Mosley

Posted on June 7, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I spent that morning inside the mind of a madman or a genius or maybe outside of what Lawless refers to as the hive mind, the spirit that guides millions of heedless citizens through the aimless … Continue reading →

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In the Café of Lost Youth – Patrick Modiano (Translated from the French by Chris Clarke)

Posted on March 8, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I’ve always believed that certain places are like magnets and draw you towards them should you happen to walk within their radius. And this happens imperceptibly, without you even suspecting… It seems to me that because … Continue reading →

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New Orleans Noir The Classics – edited by Julie Smith

Posted on February 29, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung)   “A hurricane is supposed to have a beginning and an end. It tears the earth up, fills the air with fling trees and bricks and animals and sometimes even people, make you roll up into … Continue reading →

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Red Lights – Georges Simenon, Translated from the French by Norman Denny, Introduction by Anita Brookner)

Posted on January 22, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I met a man in whom, for hours, I tried to see another me, another me that wasn’t a coward, a man I wished I could be like…” Steve Hogan, and his wife, Nancy are driving … Continue reading →

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Memphis Noir – Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill (Editors)

Posted on November 19, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung)   “He played his trumpet for her, blew it soft so it rolled around her curves, pushed all that suede the wrong way and then smoothed it over again. And she sang for him, hummed at … Continue reading →

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Run Baby Run – Michael Allen Zell

Posted on November 14, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “He’d been in two worlds his whole life. His tender spot. What gave him perspective and experience beyond most people. It was also what could wound him to the quick like nothing else. Why he lived … Continue reading →

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Calling out to all Alfred Hitchcock fans!

Posted on October 21, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) From the UnderratedReads archives – What You See in the Dark  by Manuel Muñoz “The woman had to live before she could die…Even if it was the vulgarity of real life—the needs and the mistakes, but also the … Continue reading →

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