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In Noir, the Good Girl, the Detective and the Femme Fatale written by Reyshan Parker we find the elements of the great noir novels dating from the 1940’s: murder, revenge, greed, lust and cupcakes. Cupcakes?

Noir follows three primary characters. First we meet Melanie, the Good Girl who has had to deal with the suicide of her high school sweetheart. As she tries to put her life back together Melanie abandons her dreams for college and a career as a journalist and takes a job at a bakery. She soon becomes obsessed with cupcakes which help to assuage the loneliness as well as functioning as a coping mechanism for her grief. Not long after taking the job she becomes smitten with a customer, falls in love and marries him. All is well until Melanie suffers a miscarriage. In too short a time Melanie’s husband changes, drinking heavily, blaming Melanie for everything that goes wrong in their world and becoming abusive. Don’t get the idea that the Good Girl is going to slip into role of the long-suffering wife. Check out how the book opens: Before I entirely let you in as to why I am pointing this gun at the man in the hat and why there is a dead fat man on the floor, I thought maybe we should get to know each other first.

After Melanie we’re introduced to the Detective. David has aspirations of being a great photographer, hoping someday to have the money to open his own gallery. However, times being as they are, he has to take a job with a private detective who took David in off the streets after David’s father died. Sneaking around after suspects, surreptitiously taking photos and occasionally breaking into homes to gather evidence is quite a ways away from a one-man show at the MOMA, but it almost pays the bills. When his employer meets an untimely death David is stunned to find himself the sole beneficiary of the small detective agency. After years of doing his boss’s dirty work David has suddenly become the Detective.

Rounding out Noir’s main characters is the Femme Fatale. Sandra is beautiful, and knows how to use her looks to get what she wants. After growing up poor she embarks on a career in modeling, all the while waiting to use her looks to find a man of wealth to marry and retire into the easy life. She finds the man, if not the easy life, in a powerful U.S. congressman from a wealthy family and marries him. Things go well for Sandra at first, as her husband dotes on her and shows her off to his world of politics and money. But just as money drew young Sandra to the congressman, other women are drawn to him as the years pass. Sandra’s husband succumbs to the lure of younger women with Sandra suspecting infidelity, but able to take solace in her lavish lifestyle. However, things are about to get worse for her:

"We need to talk," he said, looking at me sternly, "It's about your allowance."
"What about my allowance?" I asked.
"We need to make some sacrifices."
"If you think for one second that--"
"This isn't a negotiation," he barked! "You'll just have to buy two less pairs of shoes a month.""How dare you!" I threw my napkin onto my plate. I had to make sacrifices? For what, to pay for his liaisons? I deserved less, while he paid some tart's rent? That was the last straw. "I don't even know why I married you!" I screamed as I stood up to leave the room.

Asking a pampered wife to get by with two less pairs of shoes a month can’t end well for a philandering husband. Especially if she’s referred to as the Femme Fatale.

The setting for Noir is simply the city. There are no hints geographically as to its location. The Detective describes it: The city was dark and quiet that night. It had just rained. The smell of the city had temporarily been washed away, replaced by that cool refreshing scent of crisp clean night air. Gone for the moment was the stench of the numerous dumpster's filled with rotting food and rats. Gone were the acrid fumes of the nonstop traffic and refineries. The smell of corruption and power had also been vanquished for the time being.

Noir is a fast-moving tale, with an intricately designed plot, told from the three distinct points of view with the three aforementioned characters each telling their story in first person. Each chapter is named for the character whose turn it is to continue the story. Perplexingly, there were no numbers following the word Chapter, only the point-of-view character’s name with each new chapter. However, this seemed to be an oversight and was only a minor annoyance. When two of the trio of main characters are in the same scene that scene is recounted twice, in successive chapters, related in from one then the other’s point of view. Exact dialogue is repeated, which at times is a little tedious, but we’re treated to the point-of-view character’s thought process which provides nuance to that person’s motives.

As I referenced earlier, the book begins with Melanie, the Good Girl promising to tell the reader why she is standing over a dead body holding a gun. In fact, the Good Girl, the Detective and the Femme Fatale each get a crack at telling their side of why they all are standing over the dead body. The three characters seem not to know each other but through each one’s desire to change their circumstances they enlist one another’s help. The change they seek, as you would imagine in a novel titled Noir, is not in the form of marriage counseling, debt forgiveness and setting up a neighborhood watch, and the help they require of each other is somewhere south of legal.

The main characters were fully developed and each told their story with a distinctive voice reflecting the persona laid out in each of their introductory chapters. As a reader, a good test of how well characters are written is to read dialogue while trying to block out the dialogue tags, to see if the characters are identifiable. These characters came across as their own “persons” through the entire novel.

The clever plot, the dead-on descriptions of the city and the seamy people populating the rackets, and the sharp dialogue kept me flipping the pages at a rapid pace. Two things slowed me down: 1) A glossing over of a few loose ends that I couldn’t help but think were ignored so as to have a cleaner path to the end of the plot. 2)There are quite a few errors in editing.

Some inconvenient details nagged at me as I neared the end of the book which were not fully explained at book’s end. A couple of murders take place and for some reason the police seem less than dogged in their pursuit of suspects. Also troubling to me was that when a notable person was blackmailed, a minimum of risk seemed to be involved to the blackmailer as he safely escaped with the loot. The end of the scene seemed to be saying to the reader, “Nothing more to see here. Don’t overthink things. Next page, please.”

The bane of being involved with indie writing is the reputation of our books being littered with errors and Noir has quite a few. A second or third set of eyes seemed to be needed to catch problems such as using then instead of than, viola instead of voila, being unable to decide if martini should be capitalized, as well as other problems.

Noir was enjoyable and I’m glad I read it. If you can ignore the editing issues I think you’ll enjoy it, too.

Two and a half stars out of five.

A free copy of this book was provided by the author for review purposes. No compensation was received for the reviewers honest opinion.


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Noir the Good Girl the Detective and the Femme Fatale Reyshan Parker 9781300664055 Books Reviews

I met the author in Savannah, and am reviewing the electronic version he sent me.

The unique thing to me, about this book is the telling in first person for each of the three interacting characters. The subtle differences between the telling of each scene is interesting. The story is a compelling thriller.

This is a good short one sitting read, and the story held my interest throughout. I would have given a higher rating except there are several linguistic errors, that should be polished out.
The thing that caught my eye about this novel was the intriguing title and the appropriate cover. I'm a big fan of noir and hard-boiled detective novels, so I had to read this book. Indeed, I got both noir and a hard-boiled detective complete with fedora and a crummy office.
This is narrated from the viewpoints of three damaged characters as their lives overlap and intertwine. That in itself isn't new, but it certainly hasn't been overworked and here it works very well. Author Reyshan Parker allows us to experience events from different viewpoints with different interpretations, without ever slowing the pace of the story. He also gives us insight into each player's mind, allowing us to see the different characters through the eyes of the person who happens to be narrating a given chapter.
Melanie Diangelo is a very likeable young woman with a cupcake obsession so severe she should have her own reality show. Unfortunately, Melanie's husband, bookie Frank Diangelo, once a doting suitor, is actuality irritable, abusive and uncaring. To Frank, Melanie is just a possession.
David Brissel is a photographer. When Davey's father was murdered, his father's best friend Earl Jones, took him in, and became a second father and mentor to young Davey. A former cop, Jones eventually opened his own detective agency and, considering Davey's interest in photography, Jones hired Davey to be his aide and official photographer. Davey does have a problem he loves to gamble. He considers himself a very good gambler, although after learning of some of his bets, we may wonder.
Without injecting spoilers, let me just say that things happen and Davey soon has to lay his camera aside, put on a fedora and become a flinty-eyed private eye.
Sandra Bloom, the third narrator, is the wife of Congressman William Bloom. Sandra too is perhaps even more damaged than Melanie and Davey. She has become a bitter abusive alcoholic who tends to blame everyone else for her problems. Her philandering husband only deepens her depression and hostility. She married him for money and he married her because he needed a good-looking trophy wife. They both got what they asked for.
The dialog and narration here are snappy, easy to follow and keep the story moving at a brisk pace. Except for cell phones and digital cameras, this could well be a throwback to the '40s when writers like Thompson and Cain were at their peak. A noir novel, yes, but at the same time, this tale offers some real insight into human behavior spiced by touches of humor. As in any noir worthy of the name, there are really no good guys. Just ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
With its full quota of murder, treachery, sex and greed, NOIR, "the Good Girl, the Detective, and the Femme Fatale" is a fast-paced mystery that's just different enough to make it stand out.
— C. M. Albrecht [...]
In Noir, the Good Girl, the Detective and the Femme Fatale written by Reyshan Parker we find the elements of the great noir novels dating from the 1940’s murder, revenge, greed, lust and cupcakes. Cupcakes?

Noir follows three primary characters. First we meet Melanie, the Good Girl who has had to deal with the suicide of her high school sweetheart. As she tries to put her life back together Melanie abandons her dreams for college and a career as a journalist and takes a job at a bakery. She soon becomes obsessed with cupcakes which help to assuage the loneliness as well as functioning as a coping mechanism for her grief. Not long after taking the job she becomes smitten with a customer, falls in love and marries him. All is well until Melanie suffers a miscarriage. In too short a time Melanie’s husband changes, drinking heavily, blaming Melanie for everything that goes wrong in their world and becoming abusive. Don’t get the idea that the Good Girl is going to slip into role of the long-suffering wife. Check out how the book opens Before I entirely let you in as to why I am pointing this gun at the man in the hat and why there is a dead fat man on the floor, I thought maybe we should get to know each other first.

After Melanie we’re introduced to the Detective. David has aspirations of being a great photographer, hoping someday to have the money to open his own gallery. However, times being as they are, he has to take a job with a private detective who took David in off the streets after David’s father died. Sneaking around after suspects, surreptitiously taking photos and occasionally breaking into homes to gather evidence is quite a ways away from a one-man show at the MOMA, but it almost pays the bills. When his employer meets an untimely death David is stunned to find himself the sole beneficiary of the small detective agency. After years of doing his boss’s dirty work David has suddenly become the Detective.

Rounding out Noir’s main characters is the Femme Fatale. Sandra is beautiful, and knows how to use her looks to get what she wants. After growing up poor she embarks on a career in modeling, all the while waiting to use her looks to find a man of wealth to marry and retire into the easy life. She finds the man, if not the easy life, in a powerful U.S. congressman from a wealthy family and marries him. Things go well for Sandra at first, as her husband dotes on her and shows her off to his world of politics and money. But just as money drew young Sandra to the congressman, other women are drawn to him as the years pass. Sandra’s husband succumbs to the lure of younger women with Sandra suspecting infidelity, but able to take solace in her lavish lifestyle. However, things are about to get worse for her

"We need to talk," he said, looking at me sternly, "It's about your allowance."
"What about my allowance?" I asked.
"We need to make some sacrifices."
"If you think for one second that--"
"This isn't a negotiation," he barked! "You'll just have to buy two less pairs of shoes a month.""How dare you!" I threw my napkin onto my plate. I had to make sacrifices? For what, to pay for his liaisons? I deserved less, while he paid some tart's rent? That was the last straw. "I don't even know why I married you!" I screamed as I stood up to leave the room.

Asking a pampered wife to get by with two less pairs of shoes a month can’t end well for a philandering husband. Especially if she’s referred to as the Femme Fatale.

The setting for Noir is simply the city. There are no hints geographically as to its location. The Detective describes it The city was dark and quiet that night. It had just rained. The smell of the city had temporarily been washed away, replaced by that cool refreshing scent of crisp clean night air. Gone for the moment was the stench of the numerous dumpster's filled with rotting food and rats. Gone were the acrid fumes of the nonstop traffic and refineries. The smell of corruption and power had also been vanquished for the time being.

Noir is a fast-moving tale, with an intricately designed plot, told from the three distinct points of view with the three aforementioned characters each telling their story in first person. Each chapter is named for the character whose turn it is to continue the story. Perplexingly, there were no numbers following the word Chapter, only the point-of-view character’s name with each new chapter. However, this seemed to be an oversight and was only a minor annoyance. When two of the trio of main characters are in the same scene that scene is recounted twice, in successive chapters, related in from one then the other’s point of view. Exact dialogue is repeated, which at times is a little tedious, but we’re treated to the point-of-view character’s thought process which provides nuance to that person’s motives.

As I referenced earlier, the book begins with Melanie, the Good Girl promising to tell the reader why she is standing over a dead body holding a gun. In fact, the Good Girl, the Detective and the Femme Fatale each get a crack at telling their side of why they all are standing over the dead body. The three characters seem not to know each other but through each one’s desire to change their circumstances they enlist one another’s help. The change they seek, as you would imagine in a novel titled Noir, is not in the form of marriage counseling, debt forgiveness and setting up a neighborhood watch, and the help they require of each other is somewhere south of legal.

The main characters were fully developed and each told their story with a distinctive voice reflecting the persona laid out in each of their introductory chapters. As a reader, a good test of how well characters are written is to read dialogue while trying to block out the dialogue tags, to see if the characters are identifiable. These characters came across as their own “persons” through the entire novel.

The clever plot, the dead-on descriptions of the city and the seamy people populating the rackets, and the sharp dialogue kept me flipping the pages at a rapid pace. Two things slowed me down 1) A glossing over of a few loose ends that I couldn’t help but think were ignored so as to have a cleaner path to the end of the plot. 2)There are quite a few errors in editing.

Some inconvenient details nagged at me as I neared the end of the book which were not fully explained at book’s end. A couple of murders take place and for some reason the police seem less than dogged in their pursuit of suspects. Also troubling to me was that when a notable person was blackmailed, a minimum of risk seemed to be involved to the blackmailer as he safely escaped with the loot. The end of the scene seemed to be saying to the reader, “Nothing more to see here. Don’t overthink things. Next page, please.”

The bane of being involved with indie writing is the reputation of our books being littered with errors and Noir has quite a few. A second or third set of eyes seemed to be needed to catch problems such as using then instead of than, viola instead of voila, being unable to decide if martini should be capitalized, as well as other problems.

Noir was enjoyable and I’m glad I read it. If you can ignore the editing issues I think you’ll enjoy it, too.

Two and a half stars out of five.

A free copy of this book was provided by the author for review purposes. No compensation was received for the reviewers honest opinion.