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Patrick Millikin

Auteur de Phoenix Noir

2 oeuvres 189 utilisateurs 7 critiques

Œuvres de Patrick Millikin

Phoenix Noir (2009) — Directeur de publication — 136 exemplaires
The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers, and Dark Roads (2016) — Directeur de publication — 53 exemplaires

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Akashic Books has become known for its series of short story anthologies set in locations around the globe, and since I'm a resident of Phoenix, picking up a copy of Phoenix Noir (from The Poisoned Pen Bookstore where editor Patrick Millikin works no less) was a no-brainer.

This collection of sixteen stories is a good one. There's only one story that I refused to finish, and that was due more to my mood than the writer's ability. Readers are taken from Phoenix in the 1940s (Jon Talton's Bull) to the here and now with characters from all walks of life.

My favorites in this collection were Lee Child's Public Transportation that had a lovely little twist at the end, Laura Tohe's Tom Snag that tells of a Native American who picks up the wrong woman at the Flying Eagle Bar, Others of My Kind by James Sallis, and Don Winslow's Whiteout on Van Buren which teaches a hitman why no one should visit Phoenix in August.

Diana Gabaldon's Dirty Scottsdale wins the prize for memorable phrases. When explaining why she was delayed in coming to the door, a woman says, "Sorry. I was drowning squirrels in the garage" (!) and then there's a perfect description of the Phoenix heat: "Yeah, it's a dry heat. Meaning that instead of being poached when you walk outside, you're flash-fried."

Phoenix Noir isn't my first Akashic short story anthology, and it won't be my last. It's tough to beat this publisher's one-two punch of prime location and prime storytelling.
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cathyskye | 3 autres critiques | Dec 31, 2020 |
Some great stories in here. George Pelecanos, Sara Gran, Luis Alberto Urrea, CJ Box, Wallace Stroby, Kelly Braffet, Gary Phillips, Ace Atkins, Willy Vlautin, and Joe Lansdale really bring it. I knew most of the writers but Braffet and Vlautin are nice discoveries for me.
 
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ThomasPluck | 2 autres critiques | Apr 27, 2020 |
Fogmeister by Christine Feehan - 3
Fictionalized story based on a factual event. It was very dry, reading Dr. Porsche investigate why the car he helped design, crashed and killed a friend.
 
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wyldheartreads | 2 autres critiques | Jun 20, 2019 |
The Highway Kind is a collection of short stories of varying lengths by an all-star cast of writers including such famed authors as Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, and Wil Vilharo. The theme of these stories is the fuel-infected powerful rides that some men spend their whole lives working on and perfecting.

Even what seem like the tamest stories about test driving a "dadmobile" are not tame, but at a certain point become emotionally out of control (winters' Test Drive). Other stories are hard crime stories but are almost hauntingly beautiful tales of isolated farmhouses and what comes out of the cold wintry night (Box's Power Wagon). Connelly's Burnt Matches draws on familiar characters from his Lincoln Lawyer series. There are stories about desperation and others about road rage ( Stroby's Night Run). Atkins' Apache Youth takes us on a road through a reservation.

Lots of good stuff here. And too many stories to describe them all even briefly.
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DaveWilde | 2 autres critiques | Sep 22, 2017 |

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