Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kingston Noir | 2012 | Marlon James | Buy |
Kingston Noir (2012) is Marlon James’s contribution to the Akashic Noir anthology series as editor. The collection brings together Jamaican writers to tell crime stories rooted in Kingston’s neighborhoods. James, who grew up in Jamaica before moving to the United States, was a natural choice to curate fiction set in the city he knows well.
The Akashic Noir series pairs cities with editors who have personal ties to them, and each volume features stories set in specific locations within that city. Kingston Noir maps its crime tales across different parts of the Jamaican capital. The anthology came out between James’s The Book of Night Women (2009) and A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), during a period when his own fiction was deeply engaged with Jamaican settings and violence.