I love reading stories about my chosen hometown, and this collection lets you visit Denver and its outlying suburbs from a variety of perspectives, but with a dark, brooding feeling through it all. From the historical story “Pieces of Everyone, Everywhere” by the editor of the anthology, Cynthia Swanson, we see a young laborer escaping a dangerous home life and getting a job exhuming graves, transforming a paupers’ cemetery into what is now Cheeseman Park. I used to go there all the time and nev...

I love reading stories about my chosen hometown, and this collection lets you visit Denver and its outlying suburbs from a variety of perspectives, but with a dark, brooding feeling through it all. From the historical story “Pieces of Everyone, Everywhere” by the editor of the anthology, Cynthia Swanson, we see a young laborer escaping a dangerous home life and getting a job exhuming graves, transforming a paupers’ cemetery into what is now Cheeseman Park. I used to go there all the time and nev...

DENVER NOIR edited by Cynthia Swanson is Akashic Books latest addition to its award-winning noir series. This series of original noir anthologies was launched in 2004 with BROOKLYN NOIR edited by Tim McLoughlin. There are presently 100+ titles available - each title showcasing a particular city, state, region or country around the world.As an armchair traveler, I find it fascinating to read stories (albeit noir stories) from Paris, Oakland, Cape Cod, Montana, Sao Paulo, Singapore - you get the d...

Denver Noir edited by Cynthia Swanson is a very highly recommended collection of fourteen short stories set in the Denver area.This is part of Akashic Books international noir series that launched in 2004 and now is at over 100 volumes. The volumes are all set in a specific city, feature a local writer as an editor, and then have fourteen new stories by local authors. The volumes showcase a broad variety of styles from authors included and take place in neighborhoods across the city. A basic map...

Denver Noir edited by Cynthia Swanson is a very highly recommended collection of fourteen short stories set in the Denver area.This is part of Akashic Books international noir series that launched in 2004 and now is at over 100 volumes. The volumes are all set in a specific city, feature a local writer as an editor, and then have fourteen new stories by local authors. The volumes showcase a broad variety of styles from authors included and take place in neighborhoods across the city. A basic map...

Denver Noir edited by Cynthia Swanson is a very highly recommended collection of fourteen short stories set in the Denver area.This is part of Akashic Books international noir series that launched in 2004 and now is at over 100 volumes. The volumes are all set in a specific city, feature a local writer as an editor, and then have fourteen new stories by local authors. The volumes showcase a broad variety of styles from authors included and take place in neighborhoods across the city. A basic map...

Denver Noir edited by Cynthia Swanson is a very highly recommended collection of fourteen short stories set in the Denver area.This is part of Akashic Books international noir series that launched in 2004 and now is at over 100 volumes. The volumes are all set in a specific city, feature a local writer as an editor, and then have fourteen new stories by local authors. The volumes showcase a broad variety of styles from authors included and take place in neighborhoods across the city. A basic map...

My favorite of the collections to date. There is not a single story I did not enjoy. Cynthia Swanson has curated and edited a stunning series of diverse stories, not only in terms of authors and characters, but also a wide variety of time periods and styles. There’s even a graphic story! The stories are full of interesting characters you have to care about while maintaining that classic noir atmosphere. TWs for nearly everything. I loved it.

My favorite of the collections to date. There is not a single story I did not enjoy. Cynthia Swanson has curated and edited a stunning series of diverse stories, not only in terms of authors and characters, but also a wide variety of time periods and styles. There’s even a graphic story! The stories are full of interesting characters you have to care about while maintaining that classic noir atmosphere. TWs for nearly everything. I loved it.

Noir conjures up many feelings and emotions - despair, hopelessness, violence, shadows and secrets. Things done in the dark and things hidden in the bright light of day. "Denver Noir" has all of this and more. So much more. Each slice of life story wraps you in a miasma of time and place, yet strangely, seems timeless, or maybe a place out of time.Each unique story in this stellar collection will make you feel something, good, bad or indifferent. But mostly you'll run the gamut of what noir embo...

Noir conjures up many feelings and emotions - despair, hopelessness, violence, shadows and secrets. Things done in the dark and things hidden in the bright light of day. "Denver Noir" has all of this and more. So much more. Each slice of life story wraps you in a miasma of time and place, yet strangely, seems timeless, or maybe a place out of time.Each unique story in this stellar collection will make you feel something, good, bad or indifferent. But mostly you'll run the gamut of what noir embo...

Noir conjures up many feelings and emotions - despair, hopelessness, violence, shadows and secrets. Things done in the dark and things hidden in the bright light of day. "Denver Noir" has all of this and more. So much more. Each slice of life story wraps you in a miasma of time and place, yet strangely, seems timeless, or maybe a place out of time.Each unique story in this stellar collection will make you feel something, good, bad or indifferent. But mostly you'll run the gamut of what noir embo...

Noir conjures up many feelings and emotions - despair, hopelessness, violence, shadows and secrets. Things done in the dark and things hidden in the bright light of day. "Denver Noir" has all of this and more. So much more. Each slice of life story wraps you in a miasma of time and place, yet strangely, seems timeless, or maybe a place out of time.Each unique story in this stellar collection will make you feel something, good, bad or indifferent. But mostly you'll run the gamut of what noir embo...

Noir conjures up many feelings and emotions - despair, hopelessness, violence, shadows and secrets. Things done in the dark and things hidden in the bright light of day. "Denver Noir" has all of this and more. So much more. Each slice of life story wraps you in a miasma of time and place, yet strangely, seems timeless, or maybe a place out of time.Each unique story in this stellar collection will make you feel something, good, bad or indifferent. But mostly you'll run the gamut of what noir embo...

Noir conjures up many feelings and emotions - despair, hopelessness, violence, shadows and secrets. Things done in the dark and things hidden in the bright light of day. "Denver Noir" has all of this and more. So much more. Each slice of life story wraps you in a miasma of time and place, yet strangely, seems timeless, or maybe a place out of time.Each unique story in this stellar collection will make you feel something, good, bad or indifferent. But mostly you'll run the gamut of what noir embo...

Noir conjures up many feelings and emotions - despair, hopelessness, violence, shadows and secrets. Things done in the dark and things hidden in the bright light of day. "Denver Noir" has all of this and more. So much more. Each slice of life story wraps you in a miasma of time and place, yet strangely, seems timeless, or maybe a place out of time.Each unique story in this stellar collection will make you feel something, good, bad or indifferent. But mostly you'll run the gamut of what noir embo...

Noir conjures up many feelings and emotions - despair, hopelessness, violence, shadows and secrets. Things done in the dark and things hidden in the bright light of day. "Denver Noir" has all of this and more. So much more. Each slice of life story wraps you in a miasma of time and place, yet strangely, seems timeless, or maybe a place out of time.Each unique story in this stellar collection will make you feel something, good, bad or indifferent. But mostly you'll run the gamut of what noir embo...

Noir conjures up many feelings and emotions - despair, hopelessness, violence, shadows and secrets. Things done in the dark and things hidden in the bright light of day. "Denver Noir" has all of this and more. So much more. Each slice of life story wraps you in a miasma of time and place, yet strangely, seems timeless, or maybe a place out of time.Each unique story in this stellar collection will make you feel something, good, bad or indifferent. But mostly you'll run the gamut of what noir embo...