Noir

by Thom Young

A detective takes on a case and discovers a dark underworld. Detective Max Waters investigates the murder of a wealthy housewife's husband, and gets more than he bargained for. A hard boiled story about a detective fighting his demons, and seeking his own brand of revenge. Thom Young returns with his own version of pulp fiction. A nasty urban tale of murder, the mob, booze, drugs, and corruption. Noir contains violence, coarse language, bad people, and did I mention drugs, dames, and booze.

141 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 8, 2014

About the author

Thom Young is a writer from Texas. His work has been in PBS Newshour, The Wall Street Journal, The Oxford Review, and over a hundred literary journals. A 2008 Million Writers Award and 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee. His work was recently featured in the Friction Series in over 700 Barnes and Noble locations.



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Reviews

[Camilla · Rating 1 out of 5]

Freebie from Amazon.


I’ve read quite a bit of freebie books from this author, and ‘writing wise’ I think it’s getting better….. but there’s definitely still room to improve. A lot of room.

This story is about a private detective getting caught up in some mob-business while investigating a murder case.. and that’s it really. Lots of dissing women, and lots of murders..

Lots of ‘easy’ scenes, where, instead of showing you scenes where the private detective actually does something to ‘investigate’, the book just tells you that he ‘searched and found out’…. Don’t do that.. If you want to be a writer… you write the scenes.. Also… when writing in 1st. person which, btw, a book should never be written in don’t write what the other person in the scene can taste…… The ending also just feels like the author didn’t know how to write an ending, and went crazy.. It literally makes no sense to end it like that.

1 star.