Review: One of the best noir short story collections on the market
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2012
Paul D. Brazill's got his bartending license and he's serving up 13 Shots of Noir.So man up and gulp down that poison!The first story in here is "The Tut" and it's my favorite. This badboy won a Spinetingler. Sometimes awards mean nothing, but certainly not in this case. This is one mean mother. Tight in all the right places, bizarrely funny, and more than a little unbalanced. It's about a man who kills his wife... but that's no escaping her. You'll be hearing that dead woman "tut" well into eternity.Along with Kieran Shea, Brazill is a leading practitioner of the all-dialog story. "Thump" is a one-sided dialog that somehow works beautifully. Suspenseful and creepy and brilliant.13 Shots is dose after dose of the top-shelf stuff. Stories about the losers and the weirdos. True Brit Grit.Only question is, when's his novel coming out?