Noir fiction Books

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...

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...

Fans of Marisha Pessl and Christopher Moore will be captivated by the twists and turns of E.Z. Rinsky's second chilling noir mysteryWhen a U.S. Senator offers to have private investigator Frank Lamb's criminal record wiped clean in return for retrieving...

Officer Harvey Havoc is just trying to survive long enough to fulfill his three years of mandatory service with the Motor City Police Department. An unexpected free fall through political red tape after a drug bust goes awry lands Harvey in the Homicide...

Fans of fast-paced adventure, thought-provoking storytelling and hard-boiled detectives like Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, will love Pinot Noir: A WWII Novel, inspired by true events. In 1940, German forces churn bucolic Alsace, France into a...

Adam Norcross is not in a good place. He recently buried his mother and now he needs something more than a power struggle between him and his mother's cat to distract him from his grief. That something comes in the form of an assignment from his...

Adam Norcross has many talents he employes in his clandestine job working for Walter Shapiro. On his business cards it should read international troubleshooter. Instead, people think he's a dull analyst. Sergeant Bethany Leith knows who he really is and...

In this suspenseful Canadian thriller, Lance, a once successful rock and roll musician turned vigilante killer, has never denied his guilt...but knows now he could've handled things differently.  With dwindling hope after two years in prison - and...

Late one night, Gabe Herschon, a gay Jew, was walking home from his job at King Cole's where he worked as the night manager when he was viciously attacked by four men and left for dead in an alley. The local beat cop found him lying unconscious and...

From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a gritty detective novel featuring JD Fiorella, an ex-private investigator who's bent on avenging his friend's murder.Failed private investigator JD Fiorella was a pro at finding trouble. Mixing it up...

Follow this Thriller with the many twists and turns, from the Dirty South, to the mean streets of Chicago.Midnite is a beautiful young woman from Mississippi with a dark secret. She fled to Chicago to escape the demons in her past. In Chicago...

In Chicago, some neighborhoods explode in gunfire and others in gentrification—but the real money built the skyline alongside sparkling blue Lake Michigan. In one such luxury high-rise, auto-parts heiress Jackie Whitney has been bludgeoned to...

Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin s beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst but refuses to get...

When human remains are found at the Vore Buffalo Jump, the short-staffed local sheriff's department requests assistance from Park Service Investigators Doug and Jill Fletcher. ATV tracks lead the investigators to the victim's boots and a hunting blind...

"'FOREVER MAN is Dashiell Hammett 2.0' (Brad Parks): A hilarious and biting neo-noir send-up of Silicon Valley, written pseudonymously by New York Times tech reporter Matt Richtel"--

People should know. Between pandemics and before the Apocalypse, people should find out. Why would beautiful, intelligent women pay upwards of $1,200 to spend a night with the cover-illustrated clown gigolo, self-described as "just a skinny guy with a...

A woman finds a Death Curse symbol scratched into the soap scum around her sink. A young boy watches his family fall apart after the death of his father. A butterfly chrysalis hatches, under the watchful eye of a hungry cat, and a teenage grim...

A taut tale of greed, murder, and revenge as combat-weary Marines take on the crooks of Wall Street. Gold in the Coffins follows the story of a tight band of retired Marines who bonded during a bloody tour of duty in Vietnam, only to find themselves...

After Deborah Evenson's death, her paintings are gathered for a retrospective showing at a Duluth art museum. During the opening night gala, the museum discovers that two of the paintings, previously displayed separately, were created as a diptych/mural...

A honeymoon couple disappear while canoeing the St. Croix River. With visiting VIPs due in days and quick searches revealing no sign of the missing couple, U.S. Park Service Investigators Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to the scene. The Fletchers...

Life is finally flourishing-good time to toss in a grenade!Professor Jasper Trueblood is serious about being an adult. He has a fiancé, a new car, a teaching gig at a nearby community college-and he's happier than he's been since his mother died a...

2020 Midwest Book Awards Winner! 2020 Royal Palm Literary Awards Gold MedalTales from The Beach House is a satiric work of fiction that sharply captures the "Man-Bites-Dog" world of contemporary South Florida. The Beach House, a crumbling old motel,...

The discovery of the near-mythical night parrot lures smugglers to the heart of the Australian outback. It falls to lone wildlife officer Ric Butler to investigate but when a malevolent boss repeatedly undermines his efforts Butler proves he isn't the...