Colorado Noir
In Colorado Noir, you’ll ride along with Elaine, The Aluminum Mistress, as she struggles to survive on the cold streets of Colorado Springs, making her living from trash cans; Hang out with Yazzie and Darrell Lee as they learn to live rough, surviving by petty theft, until one of them commits a capital crime in The Ghosts of Christmas Present; There’s merry mischief and pathos in Mosby’s Retreat, where you’ll meet a four footed usher of death; Experience utter terror at 30,000 feet on a B-17 flying abattoir in The Rising, an unforgettable World War II story; Treat yourself to the second Jake McKern novella in A Mischief of Rats, as you countdown to a crime spree that leaves the reader gasping and blood running in the streets of Colorado Springs. All of these, plus six more of the best noir stories in town. If you love crime fiction and mystery, don’t you dare miss Colorado Noir!
September 2013
ISBN# 9780989676304
302 pages, softcover
$16.95
1st place, Fiction/Mystery/Detective “Colorado Noir” John Dwaine McKenna – Rhyolite Press
Get to Know the Author
John Dwaine McKenna is the acclaimed author of, The Neversink Chronicles, an anthology of stories which detail The Taking: a mass confiscation of private properties containing unlimited quantities of potable water by the City of New York during the 1930’s. In 2012, his second award-winner, The Whim-Wham Man, a-coming-of-age and murder mystery which takes place in Colorado just prior to World War II. John’s latest work, released in 2013, is a second anthology titled Colorado Noir. A critically acclaimed collection of eleven hard-boiled crime stories, Colorado Noir takes noir fiction lovers into the underbelly of Colorado Springs, where crime and violence sometimes reign in the shadows of affluence.
John Dwaine McKenna is the multiple award-winning author of The Neversink Chronicles, The Whim-Wham Man, and Colorado Noir. He’s a member of the Colorado Author’s League, and his newspaper column, Mysterious Book Report appears weekly in the Tri-Valley Townsman and online. He and his wife June are long-time residents of southern Colorado. See his latest book; UNFORSAKEN.
Book Reviews
John Dwaine McKenna is the author of three novels, two of which have been awarded EVVYS for excellence in fiction by the Colorado Independent Publisher’s Association, or CIPA. Now the newest of his three works, Colorado Noir has been awarded a silver medal by the Independent Publishers Book Awards 2014 (IPPY) as well as gold for best Mystery Fiction, a silver for Literary Fiction, and a bronze for Print Layout & Design by CIPA. “This makes Colorado Noir the most honored, thoroughly judged and well-vetted publication in our company’s history,” said Lora L. Brown, spokesperson for Rhyolite Press LLC. He also writes a weekly newspaper column called the Mysterious Book Report for the Tri-Valley Townsman in Sullivan County New York where he was born and raised in the beautiful southern Catskill Mountains.
Award-winning author, John Dwaine McKenna takes readers on the wild side with 11 of the best stories in hardboiled crime fiction you’ll ever read.
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