Noir fiction Books

In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, an assassin's bullet strikes James Styles just two weeks before the Democratic Party names his spouse Vice President Harriet Styles its candidate for the Presidency. The task of apprehending the shooter falls to...

A NYC cop comes across a small suitcase full of hundred dollar bills during a botched drug sting. He sees it as his big chance to be somebody and give his family the lifestyle he hasn't been able to provide. In order to keep it, he must get through the...

Location is critical! And in compulsively-competitive Silicon Valley no address is more highly-prized than tech-savvy, politically-correct, safe and secure Palo Alto, where the white-hot housing market inspires bidding wars, and money falls on the lucky...

Professor Hagler strolled into yet another Las Vegas Casino, inserted one bill, hit the maximum play button, and again hit a jackpot hand. Travis Ryan has been following the professor for several days and it was always the same. There would be a visit...

Watch the man named Steem run away in terror from the prospect of the police capturing him and charging him with murder plus mayhem. See his young lover Jessica C. wait for his return, hoping for romantic days together at the Hotel del Coronado. Then the...

Millerton, Wisconsin is a peaceful, mid-sized city with such a low crime rate the police don't even maintain a separate homicide division. The peace is shattered on a warm June afternoon when a pornography shop explodes. When the fire department finds...

Detective Joe Kavinsky and his bride Sarah are interrupted in their Bermuda honeymoon by a report of the nearby suicide of Sarah's father.In returning home,they receive wedding photos that include several taken by a bodyguard of a notorious drug lord...

A fast-paced thriller set on Florida's Gulf Beaches, On the Whispering Wind combines sharply drawn characters, insightful narrative, and a plot with more twists and turns than a two-lane coastal highway.In All the Little Birdies, readers met taxi driver...

Computers have changed the way we all live, until now. Now they determine how we will die.When John Sanford developed his program to ease the many side effects of hours at a computer terminal, he thought he was going to win a Pulitzer. Instead he...

Felicia Broderick had everything a woman could ask for, especially a woman who started with nothing. But when a secret love affair becomes a mind-boggling scheme involving murder, blackmail, and organized crime, she reaches back to her roots to find the...

Disenchanted Minnesota voters repudiated both major political parties and elected a handsome star of motion pictures and television to be their governor. It fell to the suave double-dealing state ombudsman to protect not only the governor but those in...

A tale of secrets, lies, murder and intrigue as Jim Kirkwood, a self-indulgent, self-confident executive is unwittingly drawn into a search for truth as he pieces together a story of misery, money and unsolved murders. Jim stays one step ahead of the...

World famous transplant surgeon is murdered by his transplant team only to return from his grave. Johan Milkozavich is murdered in brothel, and the house manager is arrested and charged with murder. Sandra Lerner takes the case. Mystery, horror,...

In 1940-41, Hollywood is under the studio system. They are small cities with but one mission, and that is to keep the film flowing like a mighty river.

Noah Milano is a Los Angeles security specialist with more than a few "family" problems. Because, in his case, his family is "the family." He's the estranged son of a mobster, which creates a big deal of tension and more than a few problems.Fiercely...

Someone is going around the city literally butchering men, not just any men though, they are spousal abusers. Meet them and their family's.

Bad Luck just never seems to stop attacking Father Berto. He is headed for one of the worst church scandals in Connecticut history. If photos get out, his career and reputation is ruined. Nick Barnum has to step up to the plate and wipe the stains off...

After a stint as an officer in Marine Corps intelligence, Jorge Sanchez hoped to lead a normal civilian life in his new home in Washington, D.C.But a new friend, a professor at a nearby university, desperately needs his help. Someone is stalking Van...

The First Annual Amateurs' Invitational Pool Tournament is about to begin in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The entry fee is a cool $5000 so this is not a game for the faint of heart. Twelve players enter and each has a compelling reason to win. As the games...

The owner of an Austin computer manufacturing company finds he is missing one million dollars worth of brain chips and his teen-aged son. Private Investigator Dan Brandon is hired to find them. Brandon must solve three related murders and investigate a...

Doug Fletcher's Thanksgiving vacation is interrupted by a phone call from his Texas U.S. Park Service superintendent. A Wyoming coroner determines that a climber's fall from Devils Tower isn't the accident it first appeared to be.Doug is thrown into an...

"La petite mort, l'extase sexuelle, un nouvel être ?The little death, the sexual ecstasy, a new being ?"LIVRE VERSION BILINGUE.BILINGUAL BOOK. FRANÇAIS / ENGLISH

When Roger Bartlett doesn't return from his deer stand at sunset, his friends go looking for him. Failing to find him overnight, a broader search starts the next morning, led by the Pine County Sheriff's Department. Sgt. C.J. Jensen discovers...

The Light Sovereign is a three-act farcical comedy written by Henry Harland. The play revolves around the character of Prince Mirliflor, who is a vain and self-obsessed ruler of a small kingdom. He is so obsessed with his appearance that he refuses to...

A headless corpse stuffed in an unoccupied University Hospital room does not advertise good medical care for the institution. The Courier Gazette assigns Jack Sheet to write the story. Soon a series of torsos with alternating heads start appearing with...