Daniel Olivas reviews the Los Angeles Noir anthology, edited by Denise Hamilton with stories by seventeen SoCal writers, for the Elegant Variation. Olivas loves the book (”the authors featured in Los Angeles Noir have big gumshoes to fill. And fill them they do”) and shares some choice tidbits.

Like this one:

Some of the stories take place in the wealthier parts of town such as in Patt Morrison’s “Morocco Junction 90210” where she notes that when you drive into Beverly Hills, “the road under your wheels isn’t asphalt anymore. It’s butter. Beverly Hills must have a law: Pavement shall at all times be as smooth and creamy as the faces of the makeup-counter girls at Saks.” And, of course, the moneyed denizens of the 90210 will do almost anything to keep their dirty little secrets safe from their neighbors.

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