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A review by saltycorpse
Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories by Frank Bill
4.0
I was wondering if Frank Bill and Donald Ray Pollock were super-bros, and it appears they are. Not only does Pollock have a blurb praising this book on the back, but he is mentioned in the acknowledgments. Southern crime/noir writers stick together.
A good collection of stories, though some of the descriptions got repetitive. I don't know if you can describe a gunshot more than maybe 10 compelling ways, so maybe there was just too much shooting to really diversify. In any event, it was horrifying, gratuitous and violent, but also pretty badass. A book form of a Tarantino film.
if you've read The Devil All the Time by Pollock, this collection could almost seamlessly meld into that novel. Which I liked about it.
A word of warning though, a lot of dogs get killed in this book, and there's graphic sexual violence.
A good collection of stories, though some of the descriptions got repetitive. I don't know if you can describe a gunshot more than maybe 10 compelling ways, so maybe there was just too much shooting to really diversify. In any event, it was horrifying, gratuitous and violent, but also pretty badass. A book form of a Tarantino film.
if you've read The Devil All the Time by Pollock, this collection could almost seamlessly meld into that novel. Which I liked about it.
A word of warning though, a lot of dogs get killed in this book, and there's graphic sexual violence.