Noir fiction Books

The plot twists and turns Nestor's debut thriller, Bus No. 7, will leave the reader dizzy.Fast-paced and compelling, the story is told by a cast of assorted characters, both good guys along with sordid criminals-all seeking fortune or revenge. The search...

This contemporary noir thriller tells the story of best friends, Cath and Kayleigh. Set against the backdrop of 1990s Britpop Britain, The (D)Evolution of Us explores the wide-reaching effects of mental illness and unrequited love. Full of plot twists...

MEET DIZZY CARTER:Private investigatorBlues enthusiastDeadwalker witch In this sapphic paranormal neo-noir, follow Dizzy's exploits in the neon-drenched desert city of San Guin as a break in the cold case of her wife's murder leads to her stepping on the...

Mentre assiste a una scena del crimine nella periferia di Maidstone, la detective Kay Hunter fa una scoperta sconvolgente.La vittima è stata brutalmente fatta a pezzi e la sua identità è sconosciuta.Quando nella campagna del Kentish cominciano a spuntare...

"Silberstein" entführt Sie in das düstere Berlin des Jahres 1931 - eine Stadt am Rande des Abgrunds, zerrissen von politischer Gewalt, Wirtschaftskrise und einem erbitterten Kampf der Unterwelt. Kommissar Jakob Voss wird vom FBI mit einem geheimen...

Four years ago, Jack Temple was a homicide detective. He asked one too many questions and found himself out of a job. Now he is a reporter for the Garden City Times, writing about cops and still asking too many questions. When the mutilated body of...

BRISTOL NOIR - ANTHOLOGY 2A collection of stories from some of the best new and established crime and dark fiction writers from around the world.All with a dose of noir and dirty realism.Featuring:John Bowie, M.E. Proctor, Mark Atley, Mark McConville,...

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan takes on the case of a notorious former vigilante--and finds herself embroiled in a case with far-reaching consequences where the truth is as dangerous as the lies she uncovers. . . .PI Tess...

The Wanderer, Saving ParadiseBy Nicholas Salerno III The Wanderer is back, and he's turning to his old ways to save a lost girl. Take the long walk to the dark side with the Wanderer. An unlikely hero seeking redemption from his past life. He will...

It Began with a Simple Accident, or was it an Attempted Murder?A femme fatale. Her missing husband. A dead private detective. And a dangerous game of mistaken identity...It all started when Jonas Watcher found a business card along with some keys –...

"È da tanto che non leggo nulla che mi abbia così colpito e stimolato. DEAD GIRL BLUES è audacemente originale, scioccante e brillantemente raccontato. In un periodo in cui molti romanzi polizieschi si confondono tra loro, il...

<p><strong>Multiple murders. Countless suspects. </strong></p><p><strong>He'll take the case, but only because he has no other choice.</strong></p><p><em>Four novellas. Four noir-style...

Sinopse:Marina, uma mulher de 38 anos com um relacionamento desgastado, apaixona-se por um colega de trabalho, casado e com um filho. Os dois têm uma relação tórrida. Um deles comete um assassinato.Oscar, um polícia de homicídios, é encarregue do caso. É...

Axel (1890) est un roman fran�����ais �����crit par Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam. L'histoire se d�����roule dans un futur lointain o����� la science et la technologie ont atteint des niveaux incroyables. Le personnage principal, Axel, est un jeune...

Book 1 in the Pigs Trilogy.Welcome to your darkest fears, your highest desires, your shaded, deepest concerns. Bobby Cavendish carefully unravels all his personal reservations and past mistakes within the most corrupt and desperate law-abiding disasters...

It's the long, hot summer of 1958 and struggling private eye Johnny Davis embarks on a seemingly routine missing person case which drags him out of his comfort zone of sharp suits, bottle blondes and Tiki bars into a nightmare world of mind-altering...

The suicide bridge has become an escape for those suffering from trauma. When Melissa Downs is raped at a young age she faces the disgust of society. Only Thomas, a former classmate who admired Melissa from a distance, is struck by her tragedy. Alone, he...

Though only forty miles south of New Orleans, Goose Island may as well be in another world. Five feet out of the shallow waters of south Louisiana's wetlands, the secluded island is home of the Tracists Monastery. It's also a resort frequented by actors,...

A Wyoming mine worker discovers a human hand bone embedded in a forty million year-old coal seam. Sent to investigate and recover the bone, anthropologist Larry Krafter unearths a human skull. Understanding the controversy his find will raise in the...

A Heavy Metal Concert. An Island in the Harbour. The Lead Singer of One of the Bands is Murdered.Was the murderer the woman he had just made love to or a jealous paramour, or was the motive more obscure?It was an island prison in colonial days, then a...

Valerie Vane was an up-and-coming lifestyle reporter at a prominent New York City daily. Then she stumbled, rather publicly, and lost it all--her column, her fiancé, her access behind the city's velvet ropes. Now she's on the obituary desk writing death...

Felix Gomez returned from the war in Iraq a changed man--once a soldier, now forever a vampire. So the undead underworld put his skills to work as a private detective, specializing in the sordid, the sexy, and the supernatural.After surviving aliens,...

The first and only vampire book to be declassified by the federal government . . .Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of...

Light Within is a fantasy/noir series that takes place in the fictional world of Terrae. Centering on its two main characters, Silvia and Duncan, what starts as a romance takes a sharp turn for the tragic as the book progresses. Light Within is a series...

The McGinnis Investigations family is thrown into turmoil when one of their own is left, broken, bloody and near death at their doorstep. He was supposed to be on personal leave.The team drops all of their cases, as what started as a personal quest blows...

In "Cat Street," the eighth book of the Axis Stone Mysteries, readers are plunged into the sinister past of Charlie Chan. Once Rai, an orphaned street kid in Kowloon, he witnessed his best friend's murder by the Triads and escaped, taking on a new...

The story is set in the Annapurna mountain range, where the indigenous people live in harmony with nature. A young woman named Aventika leaves the city to go to the Annapurna mountains. There, she has the opportunity to learn about the indigenous...

Luego haber ayudado a resolver el misterio de los crímenes rituales en una comunidad judía ortodoxa en Rituales de sangre, Mario Quiroz se involucra como guardaespaldas de Walter "el Inca" Ayala, un narco peruano que ha conquistado el...

From soil to cloud, from valley to peak,From dark to bright, in this complex and changeable world,What one could take as life,What one could take as an enlightenment.The story revolves around two characters: Guang He and Sheng He: Guang He was abandoned...

Alicia Hawkins is back in Aspen.Alicia Hawkins didn't become a serial killer in the usual manner. She didn't tear the wings off butterflies when she was a kid, and she never killed a neighbor's cat. Her childhood was perfectly normal, with no signs of...

An Invitation to Death is the gripping story of a serial killer set in contemporary India. Darius Irani, a hyper-intelligent young man, goes on a murderous spree, targeting young, beautiful, urban women, who fall prey to his easy charm, sense of humour...

Just as his partner Sandra is due to give birth, D.C.I. Alex Warren is sent to lead a difficult and sensitive investigation.Why has a young Asian girl been sexually assaulted and murdered in the home she shares with her Scottish boyfriend? Families are...

Robert E.Tarne, Detektiv im Ruhrgebiet, soll für einen TV-Sender die Hintergründe eines vermeintlich rechtsextremistischen Terror-Anschlags aufspüren. Je tiefer er in den Sumpf der rechten Szene gerät, umso mehr wird er vom Ermittler zum Beteiligten, der...

Viola Kroll hat Ronald Dumb ermordet, den amerikanischen Multimilliardär, und ist damit davongekommen. Auch ihre früheren Morde interessieren niemanden mehr, da die Polizei sie genauso wie ihre früheren Freunde von der 'Ndrangheta für tot halten. Es ist...

Here's what someone wrote as the book description for an earlier edition of ENOUGH OF SORROW:"From master storyteller Lawrence Block comes one girl's journey toward self-discovery and sexual freedom....Karen Winslow is starting over. But she's not sure...

The Sergeant Markie saga continues. In the early 1970's Jasper and Chris, twin brothers, enter the National Guard to avoid the draft and the perils of Vietnam. Upon their return from active duty the brothers, both organized crime associates, resume their...

She wanted an easy case ... she got a disaster.Private eye Jacqueline Spadros, recovering from her harrowing experiences the week prior, wants nothing more than a simple, straightforward case - preferably one the Spadros Family won't find out about...

IN BOOK 12 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:There is only one way for housewife assassin Donna Stone to save her husband and mission leader, Jack Craig, from torture and termination: become a traitor and act as a double agent for the terrorist...

A distraught woman hires private investigator Hannibal Jones to track down her daughter who has run away, trying to escape the homeless shelter life her mother has come to accept. No sooner has Hannibal found Connie Blanco than he finds himself entwined...

Born into a family of thieves, Wendy Winkworth becomes a private investigator because "you don't go to jail if you're caught." In 1950, 24-year old Wendy is hired by the mobster/owner of the Star Spangled Girls Baseball League to...

SCRATCH A THIEF Eddie Pesak is married now, and he’s got a young daughter. But there was a time when he was part of his brother Walter’s gang. There was a time when he was the gun man on a series of robberies, like that time he...

Die dunkelsten Geheimnisse verbergen sich oft vor aller Augen ...An einem einsamen Pfad hoch oben an einer Klippe wird die Leiche einer ermordeten Jugendlichen gefunden, ihr engelsgleiches Gesicht ist der aufgehenden Sonne zugewandt. Nachdem ein...

He's just trying to make ends meet.Mac Durridge ekes out a living as a P.I. on Australia's idyllic NSW Central Coast. When the wife of a prominent politician is kidnapped and suspected to be hidden somewhere on the Central Coast, Mac is recruited to...