Chris' Fish Place

I have to admit I was warily of this book when I found out it was to be the NYRB Book of the Month for January.   Noir and I do not get along very well.  It’s just a fact of life. 

                However this book – I can see why people like it.

                Because Chaze writes a quick moving story that avoids being the in your face moral fable or women as cheap floozies.

                And what it says about how law enforcement values life is rather interesting.

                What really sells the book is Chaze’s writing.  There is an economy to the prose. There is not a wasted word, not an over blown description, no conveying of irrelevant information.  It is more of an unfolding than anything else.

(NYRB Book of the Month Jan 2016)