[via Pundit Kitchen. Frolin, thanks!]
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Anyway, while I still have your attention, check this out…
http://www.akashicbooks.com/trinidadnoir.htm
The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series.
Brand-new stories by: Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, Vahni Capildeo, Willi Chen, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Rian Marie Extavour, Keith Jardim, Jaime Lee Loy, Darby Maloney, Reena Andrea Manickchand, Judith Theodore, Tiphanie Yanique, and others.
Trinidad Noir delivers all the crime a reader expects from Akashic’s Noir Series: murder, kidnapping, rape, drugs, prostitution, theft, extortion, and more. Yet in fictionalizing crime in the real crime setting of Trinidad, [the] acclaimed authors … have created a decidedly literary noir collection.
These authors’ quality characterizations, plots, and styles concurrently reveal the country’s darkness and its appeal with an unexpected and gratifying result: In their captivating and occasionally humorous stories, the Trinidad that emerges is as intriguing and contradictory as the island and its people. Trinidad Noir is as much a delightful crime romp as it is an expose of the seedy side of life.
Lisa is someone I went to University with (she did English Literature, while I was an Electrical Engineering student).
If I’m not mistaken, this is her first published work as an editor. She’s written for a variety of publications [Trinidad Guardian, Caribbean Beat] for many years, and I even had the privelege of playing the lead role in a small play she wrote when we were final year students!
You can pick up the US edition of the book at the publisher’s website, and/or at Amazon.com. The Caribbean and UK editions are yet to be released [I guess the major difference between would be the spelling?].
And, yes… I still am on hiatus! I just had to pop-up to lend some support to a peep! 😆
I’ll be back, though!
Peace and Much Love.
jw
The Bobolee Chronicles 
i love that badge! lol. i think my mummy mentioned “trinidad noir” to me a while back. for some reason i think she hailed it as a new magazine. hmm. maybe she meant something else. anyway that sounds liek an interesting read. i’ll eb sure to check it out!
Yep… I think its a good thing to highlight and support our own.
Especially at a time like this, where we as a nation are making our presence felt on the world stage… the world needs to know that we’re more than just oil/gas, Carnival, sprinters and winning beauty queens!
🙂 Thanks for commenting!
My friend Elisha Bartels wrote one of the stories in this anthology. She invited me to the launch it’s a good buy; the Robert Antoni will have you in tears from laughing so hard.