Noir fiction Books

The man who telephoned him implied he wants to do business with amusement ride rep Andy Zartanian, and Andy seriously needs to do some business. When they meet, it is clear within moments that the man doesn't know Chance's Aviator from the Log Flume...

– FIRST PRIZE FOR FICTION, NEW ENGLAND BOOK FESTIVALSpecial Forces vet and surfer Pono Hawkins quits sunny Hawaii for Maine’s brutal winter to help a former comrade beat a murder rap. Pono is hunted, shot at, betrayed, and stalked by...

Private Investigator Chance Purdue and Brandy Alexander work in tandem on a case that finds them traveling to the Illinois town of Radish River. The CIA continues to need help putting a stop to the DADA (Destroy America, Destroy America) Conspiracy, a...

A quick and easy buck sounds good to Private Investigator Chance Purdue. But the paycheck seems to be a bit harder to earn when the job entails more than just looking into the a minor league baseball team in southern Illinois. His new client, the...

The Cold War heats up when trouble comes knocking on the door of ex-cop turned Private Eye Lacey Lockington. Lacey is hot on the trail of Alexi Fedorovich after the high-ranking general publishes a controversial expose detailing that Glasnost/Perestroika...

Detective Lacey Lockington always gets the job done, but making the omelets of solved cases usually involves breaking a lot of eggs. So when Lacey gets suspended after tabloid columnist Stella Starbright names him as a "kill-crazy cop," he has to find...

Former cop, now private investigator, Lacey Lockington gets lured into a case of something less smooth than his usual tipple: the death of his old drinking buddy and ex-CIA agent Rufe Devereaux. No sooner does he start his investigation than he finds...

Σε αντίθεση με την κλασική νουάρ αντίληψη, οι χαρακτήρες σε αυτές τις ιστορίες εγκλήματος και μυστηρίου αναπτύσσουν τη δράση τους κάτω από τον λαμπερό ήλιο της Ελλάδας. Ιστορίες με απροσδόκητη πλοκή, που διαδραματίζονται στη διπλανή μας πόρτα, μέσα στο...

It's 1975.  Johnny Riles leads a lonesome, whiskey-soaked existence on Colorado's high prairie.  Abandoned by his parents, who moved away after Johnny accidentally shot his father, and absent his buffoonish younger brother, who has left...

In the gritty world of River City, a new surge of crime threatens to drown the city in darkness. But this time, the corruption runs deeper, infesting the very heart of the justice system itself. Among those standing as the last line of defense are...

The brilliant sequel to Road to Perdition, Max Allan Collins' masterpiece of crime fiction that became both a literary and cinematic classic.Twenty-two year-old Michael O'Sullivan returns from the second World War with a medal of honor, a glass eye, and...

Back at it again, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Lucky Dey is determined to protect those he loves. This time, the deadly chain of events starts when a teenager’s thoughtless transgression turns fatal. The chaos the sudden outburst sets in...

Eine bis auf die Knochen abgemagerte Leiche erregt in Andersonville, dem Ort, wo tausende Gefangene gegen Ende des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs verhungerten, mediales Aufsehen. Ein Anschlag auf das Ansehen der USA in der Welt? Senior Special Agent Sherman...

Sommer 1985. Erste Liebe. Aus Spielerei wird bitterer Ernst. Freunde verschwinden - sterben - und eine ganze Stadt schweigt. 35 Jahre später hat Ralf den Mut, sich den Dämonen der Vergangenheit zu stellen, doch jetzt geht es für ihn um Leben und Tod!

Victoria Villalobos is back and ready for revenge. With her passion for justice burning brighter than ever, she must decide if she will sacrifice her need for retribution for the safety of her friend. From #1 international bestselling author, Steve Page...

From the author...Back in the late 1950s and early 60s, when I was finding myself as a writer and producing a great quantity of books under pen names, some of the books I wrote were as much crime fiction as they were erotica. Indeed, several of those...

Run Ono-Marks is more machine than man. Selling his humanity was the only way to survive. Now, he lives charge to charge, doing gig work in the Commonwealth's moneyed Overcity. If you can call that living.When a stranger offers him a shot at a...

It's the summer of 1984, and when a former colleague of retired homicide detective Eddy Matthews calls for some insight into a bizarre murder scene, Eddy has the impression this will be a one-time deal. However, his involvement in the case soon turns...

The kid's in a state - and if he doesn't play his cards right that could read Islamic State. Terrorists want to recruit him but he's too terrified to oblige. Instead he calls in Rainbow who finds himself in the thick of an affair that threatens to end in...

A dark past casts a deep shadow.Evan Warlow is back in the saddle as a DCI, though he isn't yet sure he deserves to be, and there are others who share his doubts.When a brutal attack on two mountain bikers in the vast solitude of the Brechfa forest...

Myth. Mystery. Murder.DCI Tom Raven's hopes for a few quiet days with his daughter, Hannah, are shattered when a shocking murder plunges him into a macabre mystery in the nearby coastal town of Whitby.In the hallowed grounds of the ruined abbey, a man...

Morrissey Jarrett is fresh out of prison and back on the streets of his hometown Cardiff.During his enforced absence the city has been re-developed to within an inch of its life and a disoriented Morrissey falls back into old habits as he scams,...

OMG ... Die ganze Zeit hielt ich die Luft an und schrie mehr als einmal ›oh, nooooo!‹ ... wirklich schnelles Tempo mit einem alles umfassenden Hauch von Gefahr und Spannung. B for Bookreview, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Es dämmert bereits, als sie um ihr Leben rennt und...

The water ripples as the girl's body escapes the reeds and floats silently upwards. Her beautiful face-blue eyes frozen open, skin as white as snow-breaks the surface. But it's too late, this innocent soul has taken her final breath... When camp...

New identity. New city. New job. New lover.A brand new life, leaving his violent past behind, until a single shot rings out late one chicago night...Starting with only a cryptic message about an event from a century ago written in the blood of the...

Michael Hearns' debut novel, "Trust No One," introduced the world to Vice Intelligence and Narcotics (VIN) detective, Cade Taylor. His second book, "Grasping Smoke," solidified Cade Taylor as a dynamic, action-driven character. In...

In an avalanche of lies, one real slacker stands against the wave of pretenders.After months of chasing shadows, Tony Flaner, the insecure sleuth, is about to have his life turned upside down. In the blink of an eye, four cases land on Tony's plate,...

1950s Wichita, Kansas When bail bondsman A.J. Kessler asks Private Detective Dwayne Wheeler to accompany him to a small town in western Kansas to capture an escapee, he never imagined being involved in a shoot-out that would end in one man's death...

When private detective Vincent R. Sturgis stumbles across his second case of a deadly drug known as the Black Death, he suddenly finds himself to be a very popular fellow. Mob bosses tell him to either keep his mouth shut and walk away with a bag of...

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 finding a way to survive. <br><br>Episodes 26-28 of...

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 finding a way to survive. <br><br>Season Four...

This classic story of bad decisions leading to worse consequences takes place in a small Illinois Rust Belt city circa 1979. <br><br>Al Heidorn is a working stiff, a Korean War vet and recently divorced father of three whose life is...

Weary but wise private-eye Matt Murdock is back, and he has met his match-a vital and attractive writer and cop's daughter, Helene Steinbeck. Helene is hiking in the hills of Taos when she happens upon the corpse of a young woman downed by an arrow...

Coleridge Taylor is searching for his next scoop on the police beat. The Messenger-Telegram reporter has a lot to choose from on the crime-ridden streets of New York City in 1975. One story outside his beat is grabbing all the front page glory: New York...

The life of an American hippie in Mexico is upended by a gang of ex-cons in this thriller full of “wild surprises” (Carl Hiaasen).All Tod remembers when he wakes up next to a dead prostitute is that he had his first shot of heroin the night...

The news story runs repeatedly: A teenage girl is raped and murdered by a recently paroled child molester Marcus Regan. While searching for her body, the police find the remains of another victim, killed a year earlier by the same man. Through the...

The deadly assassin, known as the Hun, is a stone-cold killer. He has his own set of rules, and he reserves the right to change them whenever he pleases. He doesn't torture. He doesn't steal art or papers. He simply kills-and for him, that is enough. ...

This book is a thrilling mystery novel set in New York City in the early 20th century. The story follows a detective named Larry Steele as he investigates a complex case involving theft, fraud, and murder. The novel is a gripping page-turner that keeps...

Adam Baldwin, in the middle of his seventh term as a United States Senator, is at the pinnacle of his career. And he is the front-runner for his party's nomination for President at the looming Democratic National Convention. But a dark cloud hangs over...

The FBI is on the trail of international terrorists. The trail leads them to the summer home of Lawton Treadwell Close, consultant to the rich and powerful. They want to know why his man Kelly was banished to the Catskills, and what he was doing with the...

"The Author Murders is boisterously imagined and vividly written. Eric Meeks's debut thriller is one wild ride."-J.R. Lindermuth, author of Cruel CutsAfter the freakish death of famous novelist Woodie Stuart, the literary world shrugs its shoulders...

There's always a story to tell about how we catch the serial killers. Thank God the Son of Sam happened to park by a fire hydrant and a random police officer was there to get his license plate number jotted down on a parking ticket on the same night that...

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...