Noir fiction Books

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...

Live Till I Die introduces August Nolan, a tough yet soft-spoken New Jersey ex-state cop turned PI who when not working a case is often found nursing a Jack Daniels at Amanda's, his favorite Hoboken watering hole. Nolan's latest assignment, which he's...

Tireless gumshoe and devoted lover of all foods Maximo Morgan is back (to back) with a pair of hard-boiled Heartland crime cases that will test the portly PI to the limit--and possibly even beyond!

Good Guys, Bad Guys, Guns-Even a Bit of RomanceFollowing the successful capture of the terrorist leader, ATF agent Sam Caviello finds himself with unfinished business with the remaining leaders responsible for killing and maiming many police officers and...

A Riveting, Page-Turning Terrorist Killer Crime ThrillerFederal Agent Sam Caviello gets caught up in a deadly terrorist plot to kill Americans on American soil. Compelled to investigate by his sense of duty, and a sudden romantic interest in the female...

LITTLE CAESARRico is a small, pale man, but he has guts, endurance and a steely single-mindedness. When Vettori sends the gang out to rob a local nightclub, Rico shoots a cop who pulls a gun on him. They get away, but Vettori is shocked. He had told...

Timp de mai bine de trei decenii, o mână de falsificatori străluciți, toți în același timp pictori renumiți, au lucrat atât de mult și atât de bine încât astăzi nimeni nu poate pune mâna în foc și să spună, fără să bată o pleoapă, că posedă originalul...

A city on the brink. A damaged Vietnam Vet. And a senseless murder that's already solved.Until it isn't.It's 1976, and Jackson Trade has his own problems. He's been back from Vietnam long enough to get divorced, get fired, and crawl into the bottom of a...

Um lugar para sonhar o sonho de outra pessoa; para viver sua vida por uma noite. Esse é o objetivo do Hôtel de Rêves e de seu proprietário, o Sr. Steele.Um clube de elite por excelência, o Hôtel de Rêves é uma experiência voltada para os ricos e...

Toronto, 1960. Mo Gold e Arthur "Birdie" Birdwell são como peixes fora d'água. Mo é judeu e sarcástico; Birdie é negro, solícito e gigantesco. Eles são detetives particulares.Henry Turner desapareceu há oito anos sem deixar vestígios e sua mãe o quer de...

One woman's haunting journey when her husband returns home and everything she thought she knew about their life together has suddenly changed."From beginning to end you are sucked in with the evocative narrative, realistic traumas and characters who get...

"The dialogue is ear perfect and effortlessly carries the plot..."-Ambrose Clancy, Editor, The Shelter Island ReporterWhoDunIt Mystery Writing Competition, 2nd Place 2023.Meet the unorthodox crime fighting crew of Comfort Cottages Assisted Living...

A gray hat hacker. A dark-hearted crime boss.Baltimore isn't big enough for both of them.C.T. Ferguson uses his illicit digital skills as a private investigator. When a teenaged boy wants to find his missing brother, C.T. takes the case.He soon discovers...

C.T. Ferguson has a case. Just one. It's how he works.Then devastating personal news leaves him shattered.Now he's burning the candle at both ends. His new investigation is one he never wanted and couldn't imagine. It emerged from a lie over a decade old...

Two Atlanta misfits in debt to notorious dog fighter and drug dealer Boots Tumbler are coerced into handling his dirty work. Phobos and Chuck, desperate to pay him back, go elbow deep in blood, dirt, and gristle, cleaning up dog fights, delivering drugs,...

Sightseeing is a tale of lust and art set in Paris, France. Intrigue haunts the prose where hilarity and evil arise in a twist of collaboration. Minus any personal background, a woman and a man explore one another while regarding masterpieces of fine art...

DEATH IS A PRIVATE EYE“The reason these stories are being published only now, rather than 40 or more years ago when they were first written, is that Gil Brewer’s markets have come back to him. Brewer published his first great noir story in...

STOOL PIGEONIt’s Christmas Eve in Little Italy, and Vince Milazzo is called in to investigate the murder of Tony Statella, shot in the head outside of Rocky Tosco’s restaurant. Milazzo has got a personal grudge against Tosco that goes back to...

MADBALLIt starts with a bank robbery. That’s where the $42,000 comes from. Then the two carnies who pull it off get in a car accident, and one of them is killed. The other guy, Mack Irby, waits it out in his hospital room until he’s recovered...

After financial disaster and the zeppelin bombing, the city of Bridges is reeling. Three of the four Families are implicated, and an inquest is called to investigate.After her failure to prove Jack Diamond's guilt in David Bryce's kidnapping and the...

It’s 1948. The postwar world is in chaos and Mitch Day is looking for trouble. He’s fast, dangerous, and Irish-American—he’s always been lucky. But a failed robbery attempt lands him in a small Arizona town with a dark secret...

Summoned to Las Vegas by the one and only Wayne Newman when his show girls keep disappearing, Hurricane Sam Rufus, along with his new love, Janice Jenkins, whom he affectionately calls "Tornado," arrive in Las Vegas for a combination of work and play, or...

DETECTIVE FICTION AT ITS FINEST. It's 2010, and auto racing legend Ronnie Connors and his wife were brutally murdered over thirteen years ago. The case has yet to be solved, and everyone involved remains unsettled. But when L.A. Private...

"Daniel Burke's VIBRATIONS IN THE FIELD is a surprising, scintillating, and hard-hitting blend of intrigue, spirituality, and quantum physics that makes for a truly compelling journey." -IndieReaderGood men take the Hippocratic oath, and evil ones break...

Boston might be white with snow, but there's nothing but a winter's darkness for Shane Cleary, a former cop, veteran, and reluctant PI.  There's an international war within the mafia over drugs, and he has been asked to find the nephew of the local...

"Imaginative, Intriguing, Prophetic. Hartnett at his best!" -Joe Edd Morris, author of The PrisonEscaping an assassination attempt, the underground figure El Buscador lands in Brooklyn's Gowanus, home of a toxic canal. His mortal adversary, developer...

Zander’s new romantic interest, Aubrey, is kidnapped right in front of him, and he never saw it coming. He needs to engage an old friend or two to help him try to attempt a rescue. Unfortunately, another problem rears its head before he has a...

"...a fun, fast-moving pulpy story featuring plenty of kills, thrills, and chills." -IndieReaderThe second installment of the Tomas O'Malley Mystery series.Detective Tomas O'Malley is called to the site of a murdered teenager. As the case unfolds,...

It’s the summer of 1944, and the U.S. is at war. Times are tough for Sidney Craven, who has to supplement the sporadic income from his one-man Los Angeles detective agency by writing crime stories for pulp magazines. Then, a wounded war...

Halley Brown works as a private investigator in Seattle. She likes working for herself, in part, because she gets to pick and choose her clients.Halley is about to turn down Amber Lee's plea for help finding her sister's killer, until Phoenix interferes...

John Headston took a bad step 12 years ago, and it cost him his freedom and his career. But now that he's been pardoned, and has reopened his Headstone Detective Agency, he's ready to start again. <br><br>But into his office walks the woman...

Wynol Trot—a family man and high school teacher with a pornography habit he takes pains to keep hidden.To Trevor English, the idea is simple—threaten Wynol with exposure unless a modest sum is paid.But when the blackmail doesn’t go...

Eric is an ex-con, bareknuckle boxer better known around his Chicago neighborhood as “Ugly.” He wants to shed his past, build a life with his family, but his past won’t be so easily left behind. His junkie brother Joe has stolen $100K...

Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favor by stopping a rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene. But the next thing he knows, he’s in jail, missing an...

A bestselling author wakes up on a train and has no idea how he got there. When he finds himself accused of throwing a fellow author off the balcony of a New York City high-rise apartment building, he now must battle not only memory loss, but he must...

A Grifter’s Song, Created and Edited by Frank Zafiro.Long time grifters Sam and Rachel love two things: each other and the grift. On the run from the mob, the two lovers move from one con to the next, winning some and losing others, but always...

Dime Detective magazine was the flagship detective pulp in the Popular Publications stable, running for almost 300 issues over twenty years. The fifth issue contains stories by Oscar Schisgall, Frederick Nebel, Carroll John Daly, Edward Parrish Ware, and...

Shock was launched in 1948 by Popular Publications as a companion magazine to its primary detective pulps, Dime Detective and Black Mask, concentrating on weird-mystery stories. The first issue contains stories by Frederick C. Davis, John D. MacDonald,...

In this action-packed Cold War spy adventure, Milo March-private detective and former OSS officer during World War II-is recruited by Army intelligence to carry out a dangerous mission behind the Iron Curtain. An important British diplomat has defected...

Crusty but softhearted Matt Murdock is a damn fine private-eye, but being his client has its hazards. Especially when you're not straight with him. Insurance investigator Bruce Halliburton hires his old army buddy to check into what he suspects is a...

The new crime thriller by the author of The Fear of Falling: “A gritty and unflinching journey through 90’s Glasgow . . . Dark, delicious, and authentic.” —Marrisse Whittaker, author of Buried DreamsAs DI Luc...

Domestic noir at its insidious, menacing best—this tale of twisted family ties and intricate revenge from “a wonderfully perceptive writer” (The Haphazardous Hippo).When Holly is bequeathed a large but derelict house, she wants to share...