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A review by chelseamartinez
Santa Cruz Noir by Susie Bright
4.0
Received this as a gift and wasn't sure I would like it; my excursions into genre fiction ended in high school with John Bellairs and Nancy Drew and LA Confidential and Chinatown. I'm too much of an optimist to seek out noir as an adult (I also got sick of House of Cards and even the BRILLIANT veep because they were too cynical).
But this collection is so great and makes me want to seek out more of what I now realize is a huge ongoing series (each story is tagged to a neighborhood or section of the city/region featured in the title). I don't know Santa Cruz well; I've visited, considered grad school there and my brother lived there for many years. So I was delighted by the geographic and demographic and even temporal diversity here (and have a soft spot for the stories featuring protagonists that are wayward academics).
*Monarchs and Maidens
**54028 Love Creek Road
*Possessed
**Miscalculation (great title!)
*To Live and Die in Santa Cruz
***Treasure Island (also great title!)
**Flaming Arrows
**The Big Creep
**Death and Taxez
*The Strawberry Tattoo
**Crab Dinners
*It Follows Until It Leads
But this collection is so great and makes me want to seek out more of what I now realize is a huge ongoing series (each story is tagged to a neighborhood or section of the city/region featured in the title). I don't know Santa Cruz well; I've visited, considered grad school there and my brother lived there for many years. So I was delighted by the geographic and demographic and even temporal diversity here (and have a soft spot for the stories featuring protagonists that are wayward academics).
*Monarchs and Maidens
**54028 Love Creek Road
*Possessed
**Miscalculation (great title!)
*To Live and Die in Santa Cruz
***Treasure Island (also great title!)
**Flaming Arrows
**The Big Creep
**Death and Taxez
*The Strawberry Tattoo
**Crab Dinners
*It Follows Until It Leads