Noir fiction Books

DEAD MAN'S TIDEYour name is Charlie Ames and you own a boat called the Sally and you're married to Mary Lou, the most wonderful woman in the world. But this morning you wake up in bed on someone else's cruiser, naked and hungover. An empty bottle rolls...

WOMAN OF CAIROHart Muldoon had been a "noble O.S.S. boy" in the fight against the Nazis, but now he is at loose ends. Ready to leave Europe and head back home, he is coerced into one more job working with a dubious agent named Jeremiah Grant. A British...

The British Virgin Islands. Their tourism board calls them “Nature’s Little Secrets.” But these tiny clumps of Caribbean paradise hold dark secrets of their own. Secrets that kill.Sailing his boat to the BVI was Sim Greene’s best...

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar's off-the-books assignment leads them to the surviving members of Jack Reacher's elite military unit. Five years ago, Reacher sorted and destroyed a team of arms dealers in Lee Child's Bad Luck and...

This collection of six short stories bridges the gaps between the Jeff Resnick novels of suspense and intrigue.When The Spirit Moves You: Does Jeff believe in ghosts?Bah! Humbug: Christmas with his girlfriend Maggie’s family is anything but merry...

Looking for a psychological drama which will have you gripped? Then you will love the unmissable The Quiet One from best-selling author J.A. Baker!Can you ever escape the past?Stella and her partner Wade appear to have the perfect life. They have a...

An unmissable psychological thriller from bestselling author J.A. Baker.When Phoebe and her disabled husband, Martyn, move into a new house in a quiet village, they plan to lead a quiet existence, to keep themselves to themselves. It's safer that way.But...

In a world where everyone has something to hide, even the most unexpected places hold dark truths.When a daring challenge leads Tony Flaner and his companions to the secluded corners of northern Wyoming, they find themselves disconnected from the digital...

Decades in the desert have made reporter Michael Callan hard as a sun-bleached skull. But mutilated migrants and his ex-flame keep causing Callan trouble ... even if they're six feet under.Mix an innocent beauty with a savage one, add an assembly of...

James Ellroy, Dan Brown, Ian Rankin, George Pelacanoes, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson . . . the roster of writers interviewed in these pages includes those who have won Edgar, Shamus, Anthony and Macavity awards.The interviews were...

PI Gary Charboneau made a horrible mistake, and the love of his life nearly paid the ultimate price. She has physically recovered from her injuries, and with the help of two friends, she seems to be coping with the mental trauma. Then she is arrested for...

In the small Florida coastal community of Beach City, the elderly far outnumber the younger population. Since the right-to-die case of Terry Schiavo was recently tried in an adjacent county, the end-of-life position of the government has riled many of...

Colonel Jack Adams crashes an AV-8B, Harrier in the middle of a North Carolina bean field. The task of sorting out the cause of his friend's accident falls to Colonel Dan Breakheart, the Second Marine Air Wing's Safety Officer. Within days of the start...

Клара Бардеш, унука чувеног преминулог сликара, ангажована је да обнови низ слика, од којих неке датирају из средњег века, а које су сачуване у катедрали Нотр-Дам у Паризу. Током усамљене посете горњем делу зграде, када су туристи већ отишли, она...

In this, the second instalment of the van Tonder series, we are introduced to a young Esopus van Tonder - from his time in the military, to his induction into the newly formed Unit 1, and the initial makings of the legendary detective he would one day...

In the early morning hours of October 10, 2000, a young girl left her home in the middle of a stormy night with only a backpack and was never seen again. What happened to ten-year-old Leah Harrison?At sometime between midnight and two a.m., Leah Harrison...

DIE ONCE—DIE TWICE The opening sentence of “I Had Sex with a Martian” warns its readers, “If you are at all shocked by startling unconventionality and descriptions of male sexual members, do not read my story...

SLEEP WITH THE DEVIL Les Ferron is a heel and he knows it. And he’s stumbled on a real goldmine this time. Posing as a Bible salesman named Paul Parrish, he is poised to marry the rich teetotalling farmer’s  daughter, Amy. No one is...

All is not well in post-World War II St. Louis, and private eye Ed Darvis, a man pegged as liking justice too much, discovers there's a fine line between solving a crime and being an accomplice.Ed Darvis, a St. Louis private eye, is pegged as a man who...

What if a serial killer and terrorist plot were active simultaneously in the same beach town? This action-packed novel answers the question, how do you stop a rapacious killer and subvert domestic terrorists?The gruesome methodology found in a killing...

Khinsu and the Trial of Swords is a haunting tale set in Los Angeles, following a Homicide Detective by the name of Khinsu Mchue. When the young detective comes across a gruesome crime scene, he is reminded of a childhood friend who was killed. Still...

Homicide detective Joe Hampton and his wife, Joyce, had planned to move to Clearwater Beach, Florida, once he retired from the Philadelphia Police Department. After Joyce unexpectedly passes away, Joe goes ahead with the move. Once he's settled into the...

Detective Inspector Bob Valentine returns to duty, after a narrow escape with death, only to be confronted with the discovery of a corpse on a kitchen table with a horrific neck wound. A mystery also surrounds the victim's missing partner and her...

The discovery of a dead banker sends shockwaves through the sleepy coastal town of Ayr. And it's up to DI Bob Valentine, recently back on the force after his near-fatal stabbing, to find the killer. <br><br>But leads are hard to find and the...

The request is simple: help an old friend with a missing persons case. But Henry Malone should have known nothing is ever as simple as it seems. <br><br>When a friend and fellow ex-state trooper comes to Serenity to see Henry Malone, it's not...

The door wasn't supposed to be there. Elrod knew it, but he pushed it open anyway. Now he's caught up in a world of mob money, loaded guns, and fabulous lies. Should he trust the pretty jazz singer with the big plans? Or his own instincts, which tell him...

MIDNIGHT SINWhen a rookie cop walks on to the midnight shift, the lines between right and wrong become blurred. Every step he takes and every decision he makes has unforeseen consequences. His life will never be the same.Becoming a cop changes...

It is 1966 in the Sierra Nevada backcountry. Allison Connors has been waiting years to carry out her plan. As darkness falls and a drunken beast emerges from their tent to relieve himself, Allison pushes him over a riverbank, hurls a rock at his head,...

When career criminal Jack Dempster gets caught and put away for five years in prison, he finds time to seriously reconsider his chosen line of work. Before he can make any serious decision, some old acquaintances track him down with a proposal. They want...

If only he hadn't found the hat. Or the dead guy. Or the steamer trunk. Or the rag doll. If only he hadn't found any of these things, everything might have been okay. But he had found them. All of them. Now Carson Halliday is on the run, trying his...

Only one man could satisfy Glorie Leadler's craving for love and affection. And though this golden-haired bit of feminine dynamite could have had a dozen men at her feet for the asking, it was a solitary Oriental who made her heart beat fast. When...

In the small Southern California town of San Mercury, a botched robbery in a pizza joint parking lot involving two young black men and a white man leaves one black man dead. The incident rocks the citizens to their core. Was it race-related or just a...

Meet Stchvk, a detective so hard-boiled he hatched from an egg. This saurian P.I. works the green streets of Layafflr City, bringing justice to the downtrodden of the triune Great Family.  Unfortunately, the downtrodden don’t pay...

"I drove all the way across town to cut up this son of a bitch, but it's these three flights of stairs that got me worried. . ." It's meaner than a puppy juggler. It's sharper than the knife that hot babe is aiming at your back. It's got you so hard 'n...

Elizabeth Viljoen had a bright future ahead of her. She had just made partner at a prestigious law firm and was on the cusp of getting everything she ever wanted. Then why was her body discarded in such a bizarre setting?Legendary detective, Esopus van...

Retired pro football quarterback Tommy Quinn has a few issues-recurring concussions, a beach house with tons of deferred maintenance, zero ambition, and a signing bonus squeezed by partying and tequila. It doesn't stop there.Tommy's ex-girlfriend,...