Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman (2008)Ī lot of noir protagonists fall into their predicament by bad luck, poor choices, or scheming forces at work against them. But this is noir, so that’s no spoiler.ģ. Set in the 1950s, this one could have been plucked off the shelves in that decade just as easily as now, except Gran is more honest, more brutal, and more unforgiving than many classic pulp writers. Doolittle is the king of suburban noir and he’s never been blacker than here in a timeless tale that of the desperate side of a man’s soul seeking redemption and a slice of what passes for happiness in his snowbound flatlands world.Ī blazing, first-person narrative that gleefully takes you into the gutter with Josephine, recovering drug addict and newly minted amateur P.I. He might as well have been thrown off the hay truck about noon. Working night security at an Omaha supermarket is about as low as a man can sink.
The hallmarks of noir are the sad sucker, the femme fatale, some very bad decisions- The Cleanup has them all.
I won’t say they're the best because I certainly haven’t read every noir novel to come out since 2000, and I’m hoping someone out there comments about another book they feel passionate about, so I can find new titles to add to my reading list. Here then, are 10 of my favorites from the new millennium. If you’re like me, when you think of the 90s, it feels about five years ago, but the last decade and a half comprises the entire publishing career of many authors, even though we’re about 80 years beyond the origin of noir fiction and about 65 years away from its golden age. Here we are, fifteen years into a new century, and many authors are churning out noir novels as essential as anything from its heyday.
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