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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Absolutely. I go on various kicks where I read only humor and then only urban fantasy and so on. But I think noir has gotten darker and not just in a murderous way. So much of it that ran me off was the whole "human condition" darkness--your ordinary, sad life where people were not lifting themselves up -- or would deliberately walk away from a possible good thing and choose the booze or drugs or theft over possible redemption. There's noir and then there's wallowing...
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Try Megan Abbott:
Die a Little,
The Song Is You,
Bury Me Deep, and
Queenpin. These are terrific old-fashioned noir.
Her most recent books are also fascinating but not traditional noir:
End of Everything and
Dare Me.
Dare Me was developed from her short story "Cheer," which can be read
here.