Noir fiction Books

Say you’re a wicked woman who calls herself Satin because she thinks she’s smoother than silk. You’re a talent scout for a perverted prince looking for the perfect little girl to be his next “daughter”—a very special...

Repetition Kills You is an experimental noir. A novel-in-stories. A literary jigsaw puzzle.The book comprises 26 short stories, presented in alphabetical order, from ‘Actress on a Mattress’ to ‘Zero Sum’. Combined in different...

Lippert was thrown into the bowels of the Michigan Department of Corrections as a seventeen-year-old adolescent. He remained entrenched in a world of malfeasance for the next forty years. With astonishing honesty, he reveals the raw details of what...

WAR OF THE DONS The Guarda brothers run capo Messina’s territory. Pepe, the oldest, is the muscle. Nuncio, the younger brother, is the accountant. And Marco, he’s the wolf. Restless, hungry, he’s through taking orders. It’s...

HERO’S LUST Everyone in Crescent City knows that Mayor Gowan controls the town, most of all Red Norton. Red’s an ace reporter, sure, but he’s living in the mayor’s side pocket. What the Mayor wants, he gets. And right now he...

THE RED SCARF Roy Nichols needs to find some quick cash to keep from losing his motel. The new highway was supposed to go through, providing plenty of business, but now it’s been delayed.  The bank refuses to help, and his brother turns...

THE HOODS TAKE OVER Alan Avery is out one evening picking up medicine for his pregnant wife’s migraine when he witnesses a brutal murder. Two thugs cut a guy’s throat, then throw his body into their trunk and drive away. When he reports...

Welcome to 1880s Vilnius, a volatile Northeastern metropolis where Balts, Germans, Poles, Russians, and Jews compete for a place in the sun. After sustaining fatal burns in a fire instigated by his rivals, textile magnate Hermann Lichtner spends his...

Jeff Resnick faces a new dilemma: someone is stalking his sister-in-law, Brenda. There’s violence and vandalism near her workplace, plus she's receiving threatening phone calls and letters. Is it her abusive ex-husband whose responsible, or...

Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). And it’s Matt Scudder...

  This book is the source for Jack Handler's notorious "Inscrutable Puzzle." It is introduced in the latter chapters and has never been solved, even after publication of the sixth book in the series. It is a puzzle that would make...

Skydiving onto the deck of a moving freighter…at night…and then add bombs and explosions…In Superior Shoal, murder and mayhem stalk Jack Handler throughout the Great Lakes, culminating in the fiery sinking of a thousand-foot...

The two women were at Whitefish Point in order to watch the migrating birds. But what they saw scared one of them to death. The author tells this story like Stephen King would. This book is not to be read if you want to sleep. It is also recommended that...

Chapter 1--The Catfight: Do you remember how to get off this island? Festerman asked his associate, David Nacow. Not exactly, Nacow replied as their rented Suburban wound its way along a gravel road. This doesn t look familiar ... probably should have...

Move over James Patterson and David Baldacci … Michael Carrier is the newest great suspense author!!! Murder on Sugar Island is an intense thrill ride!! Michael Carrier's character Jack Handler is a retired Chicago detective who keeps finding...

THE SILENT WALL Matty Matthews has been to the town of Forza d'Aguil before.  Stationed there with a small group of soldiers during WWII, it was here that Matty fell in love with Rosanna.  It was a sweet, short-lived affair until the...

It’s Always Four O’Clock When Stan first meets Royal Mauch, he isn’t impressed. He’s digging the scene at the Treble Clef and Royal, this thin little guy two seats down, is so boiled he can’t get his cigarette up to his...

ANATOMY OF A KILLER Sam Jordan never lets emotion interfere with his work. He is a precise and ruthless killing machine, dealing out death for hire. But his last job had ended wrong for Jordan, and now Sandy is sending him out again--without a...

KILL THE BOSS GOOD-BY Tom Fell, the boss, is gone, and Pander has temporarily taken over the rackets in town. He’s got some ideas of his own how the bookies should be operating. The business needs some fresh blood. Then Fell is back, back from...

A dismembered corpse floats in the canal in Little Venice, an upmarket tourist haven in London. The identity is unknown, but what is the significance?DCI Isaac Cook is baffled as to why it's there. Is it gang-related, or is it something more?Whatever the...

He came to Vegas to escape his past, but his past came with him.When a game of high stakes poker turns into a boxing match, Massimo "Max" Rossi, the son of mob "fixer" Boston Rossi, winds up with more than he bargained for. All eyes turn to him when...

Continue the thrilling adventures of Sgt. Jimmy Wentworth in The Jade Serpent, the second volume of his complete Chinatown cases. Born in China and a seasoned detective in San Francisco's Chinatown, Wentworth faces new challenges as he battles the...

Detective Frank "Satan" Hall is back in action, and his methods are as ruthless as ever.In Satan's Mark: The Complete Cases of Satan Hall, Volume 2, Carroll John Daly delivers five more relentless tales featuring one of pulp fiction's most infamous...

Private Detective Leon Strong sits in his office, nursing a hangover from the night previous. Top of the desk and under his boots lies a copy of the Diamond City Forum, the prima fascia type ink all about said previous night's explosion over at Pillar...

All the Yage in Reno is the second novel in what the Spanish critic Phillipe Cordova called the “Essential Dan Landes novels” – those four magical realism detective stories that Robert Rahula wrote during his years living in Panama...

"Ryder Creed—along with his dogs!—is a true inspiration: tough, smart, dynamic." —James RollinsFifteen years ago Ryder Creed's sister, Brodie disappeared from an interstate rest stop. She was only eleven and Creed was...

"I keep my pistol as a conversation piece: I point it at someone and the conversation starts flowing."Glasspier, 1947In a city with a serial killer stalking its rainy streets and a famous baseball star gone missing - a wealthy socialite and a fiery...

Gabriel Kelley is a hardened, frazzled Chicago detective, fighting daily (and nightly) against the mafia underworld, with only his faithful secretary Penny to offer a little ray of sunlight.

Baltimore PI C.T. Ferguson is back on the job. So are the criminals who want him dead. This omnibus contains three gripping crime thrillers. Find your next binge read today! Right as Rain: When a woman comes into C.T.'s office and...

"Get ready to dive into the shadowy world of Amuen Baumstark, a man who will stop at nothing to seek revenge for the loss of the only light in his life. With five empty spots on a mysterious list and one name that holds the key to everything, Macht...

They came searching for paradise. They found Hell.Chance Wills is an unlikely savior…but he's the only one they have.Modern-day rancher, descended from the Spanish conquistadors, Javier Fuentes is rebuilding the family's ranching empire in the...

Having fallen on hard times, disgraced soldier turned private investigator John "Slim" Hardy is hired by rich and enigmatic land owner Oliver Ozgood to uncover the identity of a mysterious blackmailer.The man is demanding a fortune in exchange...

A vida de está a desmoronar-se. A sua família é encontrada morta, e a sua vida pessoal em pedaços. À medida que Kurt tentar deixar o seu passado para trás e começar de novo, um assassino em série anda à solta na cidade de Trondheim, Noruega.A polícia não...

Los nanobots asesinos están sueltos, y el detective Maris Peterson va a averiguar por qué.Después de que una joven saltó a su muerte desde un pent-house y los robots viciosos se comieron a otra víctima desde las suelas hacia arriba, Maris, el hosco...

Tristan Grieves is an unwashed soul, in a city the colour of gargoyles.Liene, a girl with eyes that drank from every ocean asks for help to find Boomerang-a boy she throws away but who always returns. Until he vanishes.They search together, but where is...

De l'Occitanie à la Bretagne, de la France à l'Espagne, de Kiev à Montauban et Toulouse, "L'été où Mylena a disparu" est la quête de quatre amies pour retrouver deux jeunes filles...Été 1998, Mylena et Stéphanie sont deux amies d'enfance inséparables. À...

Eugène TERREDEFEULes larmes de WendigoLa petite ville de Plymouth, sur la côte Est des États Unis, voit sa quiétude bouleversée depuis que moi, Eugène Terredefeu, je suis arrivé en ville. Non pas que je sois mêlé à cet horrible meurtre commis dans le...

CULTRita Daveed, an ex Israeli intelligence officer, becomes the business manager and partner of a Hindu mystic, Baba Bhang, who promotes his somewhat corrupted interpretation of the ancient philosophy of Charvaka: a pursuit of pleasure based on the...

USA Today and New York Times Bestselling, Award Winning Series! The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri! "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee ChildFBI Special Agent Kim Otto finally caught a break in...

USA Today and New York Times Bestselling, Award Winning Series! The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri! "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee ChildFBI Special Agent Kim Otto finally caught a break in...

In this new Inspector Willis adventure, Willis faces the biggest challenge of his career... a murder on a highly successful client's luxurious yacht, the "Deeper and Deeper." A multimillionaire invites a fascinating collection of guests on his fabulous...

Frontenac is a corrupt city of vice, sin, and murder. On a rainy day (but what day isn't rainy in that industrial wasteland?) an underage prostitute and a rookie cop are murdered. No one cares. No one lifts a finger.Killebrew cares. Recently returned...