A review by focaccia7
Portland Noir by

Enjoyed reading a handful of these stories while I was in Portland! However, don't think I will pick up this series often, except perhaps the Chicago series. Of the five or so stories I read in the Portland volume, all were more concerned with unique characters rather than place. That is a good strategy for a short story, but in this case, I felt neighborhoods were just name-dropped, were just quick reminders that this story was set in Portland. I wished the stories more of a sense of place, gave me a sense of Portland from the various perspectives of these local authors.