Review: Kitchen Sink Noir
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2011
Julie Morrigan has, under her many aliases, had noir stories published in places like Out Of The Gutter, A Twist Of Noir, Radgepacket Online, Thrillers Killers N Chillers and  Powder Burn Flash. And now she put out GONE BAD- a short story collection which is simply spot-on.GONE BAD is a tight collection of eighteen slices of the hard side of life. The characters in GONE BAD are painfully familiar in these accurate snapshots of life.Petty thieves, twockers, rapists, perverted priests, debt collectors, working girls, murderers and country singers. All human life is here, then. These are people on the edge and over the edge. The underbelly and much further down.The stories, are clever, scary, sad and very, very funny. This is true dirty realism. Brit Grit noir meets kitchen sink drama - except the kitchen sink is blocked with fast food, cheap blow, lager and blood.Some of my favourites include the Spinetingler Award nominated `Watching', the chilling `Local Hero', 'Pick A Pig Night' and, my favourite of them all, the brilliantly brutal `Let's Dance.'Blackly comic urban noir that's not for the delicate!