Noir fiction Books

Raven Man and Other Tales of Terror and Suspense is a collection of six disturbing stories, ranging from classic gothic horror to contemporary crime with a wicked twist.In Raven Man, learn the true story of Poe's mysterious death.All-Weather Phantom is a...

Herr Rafael Blosch was about to reveal unknown details regarding the enigmatic Quer when he was fatally bitten by a death adder that had crawled up through a dank, discoloured cavity in the floor of his sweltering cell in the Desert Springs Interrogation...

Some secrets aren't meant to be told.Police Chief Mark Friessen and his wife, social worker Billy Jo McCabe, keep a watchful eye on their small island town in the Pacific Northwest. As the couple comes to grips with the fact that a hub of crime run by...

A story of a female protagonist, living in a patriarchal society and all the agonies she bears during her life.

Stefan Kronos is an artist with psychic gifts who acts as a law enforcement consultant. He heads a community of psychics, seeking out others like him in order to assist these misunderstood souls toward a better understanding of their unique talents,...

Stefan Kronos is an artist with psychic gifts who acts as a law enforcement consultant. He heads a community of psychics, seeking out others like him in order to assist these misunderstood souls toward a better understanding of their unique talents,...

Stefan Kronos is an artist with psychic gifts who acts as a law enforcement consultant. He heads a community of psychics, seeking out others like him in order to assist these misunderstood souls toward a better understanding of their unique talents,...

Energy is the life-force of inherent good...and the vigor of unnatural evil. Which is stronger?When she was young, Tia was forced into a prison, studied and tortured, because of her special talent. The chance for escape led her to run as far away as she...

This is the 6th Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer.Injured people in need of aid call out to friends and family or even strangers for help. Who can animals turn to who would not only hear them but understand their cry for...

This is the 4th Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. After spending a brutal year trying to cope after the loss of her sister, Alexis Gordon knows she needs to get on with her life. Only, instead of the normal work day...

This is the 7th Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. Even when a person can see something, it doesn't necessarily mean he should look...Celina Wilton is technically blind, but, given the alternative of being dead instead,...

This is the 3rd Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. Are some souls not meant to be saved?Psychic medical intuitive and licensed physician Madeleine Wagner thought she'd seen every way possible to heal a diseased body. But,...

This is the 2nd Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. Celebrated search-and-rescue worker Kali Jordon hides her psychic abilities by crediting her canine partner, Shiloh, with the miraculous recoveries made over the course...

This is the 5th Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. Revenge has no best-by date. On the contrary, it's ideally served cold...Wealthy and beautiful Shay Lassiter runs a prestigious foundation that she built with her...

Winner of the 2012 Spinetingler Award for Best Novel: Rising Star! When two of the Twin Cities' "Lost Boys"-young Somali men drafted to fight for terrorists back in the homeland-kill a pair of cops on his home turf, detective Ray Bleeker is left...

It’s been a while since we first met Lee Child’s Jack Reacher in Killing Floor.Fifteen years later, Reacher still lives off the grid, until trouble finds him, and then he does whatever it takes, much to the delight of readers...

A maniac killer-"Mr. Clean"-is on the loose in Brooklyn, and he's targeting couples in the midst of making love. He finds them in hotel rooms, in their apartments, and even in the park. What he does to the victims is unspeakable, but afterward he takes...

Detective Connie Gianelli is a broken woman, and she doesn't have the will to start again. While recovering in Brooklyn, she gets a call from her old partner about a new case in Texas. Combined with the pressure from her uncle, it's enough to convince...

The girl has gone missing. Again. But this time people are trying to kill her. Trying to burn down everything she has touched or left behind. The girl's surrogate father feels responsible and to assuage his guilt, he hires Richard Dean Buckner, former...

Sophie Whittaker shared a terrifying secret. Hours later, she was dead.Detective Kay Hunter and her colleagues are shocked by the vicious murder of a teenage girl at a private party in the Kentish countryside.    A tangled web of dark...

When a mummified body is discovered in a renovated building, the gruesome discovery leads Detective Kay Hunter and her team into a complex murder investigation.The subsequent police inquiry exposes corruption, lies and organised crime within the...

"If Jack Reacher were a woman, he'd be Charlie Fox." Lee Child"Find Sean Meyer and stop him. By whatever means necessary."Former Special Forces soldier-turned-bodyguard Charlotte 'Charlie' Fox will never forget the men who put a brutal end to her...

A lovely Filipino is found dead in the city park. The body of a Russian beauty is found lifeless in a run-down motel. The corpse of a gorgeous Eastern European is discovered in a park forty miles away. All strangled. All mail order brides. All connected...

Ten years have passed and Detective Steven Bullard still finds himself obsessed with Mary Krowely, a case that had slipped through his fingers and ended tragically. His obsession led him down a destructive path of mental torture; drug abuse; and finally,...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, almost exclusively remembered today as the author of the prototypical "Masochistic" novel Venus in Furs, was, in fact, a thinker of far-reaching aspirations and abilities. The present volume is one of the first representative...

There's a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn't the food selection that attracts customers, it's the illegal weapons available with...

Homicide cop Bobby Dunston's daughter has been kidnapped, taken in broad daylight on a city street in the middle of September. The kidnappers demand a million dollars and force Dunston to get the ransom from his friend Rushmore McKenzie. It soon...

Chicago P.D., Homicide is broken up into four individual stories with a through line that unites them. No other family in the history of America has provided more solace to the surviving family members of homicide victims than the Morris family of...

Small-time crook Johnny Merak is determined to get Maxie Temple, a former crime boss who'd framed him for a three-year stretch in San Quentin, and is now returning home from Mexican exile. But the 1950s Los Angeles Underworld wants Temple and Merak dead,...

PI Harry Kenmare is a prehistoric private detective in an unfriendly and infinitely unjust modern world.His life revolves around drinking, fine food, smoking, and fast women, preferably the ones he has to pay for, in cash. So what better CV for trawling...

Welcome to Los Angeles. The city that sleeps with one eye open. Enjoy the hot Santa Ana breeze while you sip your tequila. Take a stroll down Sunset Boulevard. Dip your toes in Echo Park lake. Walk down Raymond Chandler's mean streets. Meet your new...

Who is Matthias Jones and what is he doing here? Jones is not a forensic expert or a crackerjack private investigator. He does not possess overwhelming analytical abilities and relies on hunches called side road theories. Jones does not seek to solve...

Steal a high-end motor home from a popular beachfront park? Impossible, you say?Well, for hot-shot car thief Cruiser Dekko it's only a tempting challenge with bragging rights and a huge bet to win: a high-stakes game, for sure, and one Nick and Sarah...

Five years prior, a merchant marine is murdered. Political forces at work cause the case to be unsolved and forgotten.Aiden O'Brien is a retired cop turned private detective. He works cold cases on the side for the New Jersey Deputy Attorney General's...

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...

Mickey is recovering from the trauma of finding his father murdered. It's not that they every got along, but Mickey feels he now has an obiligation to find the murderer, right wrongs and return peace to his city. The killing is a dreadful distraction...

*Mature content. May not be suitable for all readers.*He took the long walk into darkness. Now he was in a fight for his life.It's a world where the rules we all live by in the light of day do not apply, a world where life is cheap and death can come...

Introducing "Veil of Shadows V" – the thrilling conclusion to the gripping serialized saga chronicling the adventures of Chris within the realm of lucid dreams. Join Chris as he delves deeper into the haunting and enigmatic dream world,...

 "Westerfield's Chain," was first published by St. Martin's in 2002, and was a Shamus Award Finalist.  KirkusReviews said: "When someone asks ex–homicide cop Nick Acropolis if he misses being on the job, he replies,...

 THINK TWICE ABOUT WHO YOU DO NOT MURDER!From a hospital bed, a middle-aged woman recalls taking back her mystery writer husband after twelve years of divorce and how all went swimmingly well. At first, anyway. But soon she began to feel empty...

Who killed Milly Tine, a rich elderly widow in the sleepy town of Sunny Hills? Lt. Chuck Goodwin, a former Big City Homicide Detective, is on the job. He suspects the homicide is too perfect to be the killer's only victim. As Goodwin and his partner, Sgt...

Two cases with unreliable witnesses. One cold case in a sleepy college town. The other the victims have a strange carving on their backs. Eyewitness testimony is often unreliable. PI Riley Sullivan knows this and when she's asked to investigate the case...

A series of suspicious drownings all deemed accidents. A retired detective with an outlandish theory to prove. Families in eight states left without justice. PI Riley Sullivan is brought back into the worst case of her career. She and her team have two...

A young man who fears anything associated with the number thirteen contemplates his thirteenth lover with ultimate dread. A lonely, nervous woman believes that a work colleague is targeting her with obscene phone calls. Extreme anger-management issues...

Antes de convertirse en un poderoso y temido narcotraficante, Walter "El Inca" Ayala tuvo que aprender a matar y defender lo suyo. En esta épica narconovela de aprendizaje conoceremos los humildes orígenes de Ayala desde el momento en el que una venganza...

College basketball star Calvin Murray always played to win.This time, losing could cost him his life.It's March. The most important time of the year in college hoops. John Hanson College is breezing through their conference en route to the NCAA...

THE MEXICO RUNMark Johns returns from his tour of duty in Vietnam with a great money-making scheme. He plans to head down to Mexico, score a supply of Acapulco Gold, and re-sell it to a supplier in San Francisco. But to do so, he has to first deal with a...