Baghdad Noir (Akashic Noir) Paperback – August 7, 2018

Baghdad Noir is a really great collection of short stories in the noir genre. I believe this is the 6th book in Akashic Books noir series that I've read, and it is top-notch, exceeded only by Helsinki Noir. The stories here are universally tight, i.e. hardly anything appears within a story that it not essential to it. I particularly liked when a story took an unexpected turn, none of which appeared contrived. Baghdad is an ancient city with a rich and complex history, and the authors contained in this volume make the city itself as central to their storylines as the characters and events of the stories. I greatly enjoyed this book

Just an absolute great read. It can get dark but hey thats Noir for you. I ignorabtly never really took Baghdad as a place for such a genre but after reading this, wow, yeah definitely a unique setting with some real harrowing tales.