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Paris Noir is a collection of new stories about the dark side of Paris, with contributions by leading French, British, and American authors who have all lived there. The stories range from quietly menacing to spectacularly violent, and include contributions from some of the most famous crime writers from both sides of the Atlantic.
Contributors include: Cara Black, Jerome Charyn, Stella Duffy, Barry Gifford, Sparkle Hayter, John Harvey, Maxim Jakubowski, Jake Lamar, Dominique Manotti, Michael Moorcock, Jim Nisbet, Jean-Hughes Oppel, Scott Phillips, Romain Slocombe, Jason Starr, Dominique Sylvain, Marc Villard, and John Williams.
Author Notes
Maxim Jakubowski owns London's Murder One mystery bookshop. He was the editor of the Black Box and Blue Murder imprints.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
While Jakubowski's second crime anthology (after London Noir) may be confused with Akashic's volume of the same title, the editor's choice of stories suggests that the series' subtitle is more reflective of the contents than the noir label. The volume's longest entry, one of Michael Moorcock's Metatemporal Detective tales, "The Flaneur of Les Arcades de l'Opera," is a Sexton Blake pastiche that includes Nazis, supernatural spirits and inter-dimensional travel, not a mix that fans of the traditional bleak and ironic crime subgenre would naturally enjoy. There are, however, some quality stories that fit more comfortably under the noir heading, especially the enigmatic "New Mysteries of Paris" by Wild at Heart author Barry Gifford, and French filmmaker Romain Slocombe's "Guy Georges' Final Crime," with a satisfying if predictable twist in an encounter between a serial killer and his intended next victim. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Guardian Review
Cara Black, Jerome Charyn, Stella Duffy, John Harvey, Sparkle Hayter, Michael Moorcock and John Williams are the best-known authors in this collection of crime fiction probing "the dark underbelly of the city of light". Jakubowski (who himself contributes a tale of a sexy assassin) intersperses their stories with offerings from French noir writers, inevitably setting up a kind of competition. And the latter's efforts generally outclass those of the Brits and north Americans. From "The Lookout", Marc Villard's sketch of drug-dealing and casual killing near the Gare du Nord, to Romain Slocombe's "Guy George's Final Crime", about a serial killer, the locals' stories tend to be scarier and more attuned to Paris now - immigrants' squats, rioting suburbs and a murderous celebrity-stalker also feature. A leitmotif of narcotic self-abuse (as opposed to crime in which one person harms another) runs through the Anglophone authors' stories, and too many are set in the past; though Moorcock's retro bias results in an enjoyably loopy fantasy involving catacombs, Adolf Hitler and a pair of "metatemporal detectives". Caption: article-paris.1 Cara Black, Jerome Charyn, Stella Duffy, John Harvey, Sparkle Hayter, Michael Moorcock and John Williams are the best-known authors in this collection of crime fiction probing "the dark underbelly of the city of light". Jakubowski (who himself contributes a tale of a sexy assassin) intersperses their stories with offerings from French noir writers, inevitably setting up a kind of competition. - Vivian Sable.
