Noir fiction Books

Life is finally flourishing-good time to toss in a grenade!Professor Jasper Trueblood is serious about being an adult. He has a fiancé, a new car, a teaching gig at a nearby community college-and he's happier than he's been since his mother died a...

2020 Midwest Book Awards Winner! 2020 Royal Palm Literary Awards Gold MedalTales from The Beach House is a satiric work of fiction that sharply captures the "Man-Bites-Dog" world of contemporary South Florida. The Beach House, a crumbling old motel,...

Clara Bardés, Enkelin eines berühmten verstorbenen Malers, wurde mit der Restaurierung einer Reihe von Gemälden beauftragt, von denen einige aus dem Mittelalter stammen und die in der Kathedrale Notre-Dame in Paris aufbewahrt werden. Bei einem...

Ölen ünlü bir ressamın torunu olan Clara Bardés, Paris'teki Notre-Dame Katedrali'nde korunan, bazıları Orta Çağ'dan kalma bir dizi tabloyu restore etmek için işe alındı. Binanın üst kısmına yaptığı tek başına bir ziyaret sırasında, turistler çoktan...

Late in night a sharp knife was pierced into the heart of an investor from other place by a mysterious killer, police had put all its efforts to solve the case without making any progress. From then on many dead bodies were left in street by the...

Η Κλάρα Μπαρντές, εγγονή ενός διάσημου νεκρού ζωγράφου, έχει προσληφθεί για να αποκαταστήσει μια σειρά από πίνακες, μερικοί από τους οποίους χρονολογούνται από τον Μεσαίωνα, οι οποίοι σώζονται στον καθεδρικό ναό της Παναγίας των Παρισίων. Κατά τη...

In the winding, enigmatic streets of San Marino, private investigator Luigi Ferro leads a life steeped in routine and solitude, until a desperate Romanian father steps into his world, clutching an envelope of savings and a story that tugs at Ferro's...

En una ciudad del sur de Alemania, el director de un colegio aparece asesinado. Las sospechas se dirigen hacia el profesor Alexander Strasser, que tiene conflictos con el director desde hace tiempo. No puede presentar una coartada porque esa noche estaba...

Nach dreißig Jahren treffen sich drei Menschen wieder, die nichts als eine dunkle Vergangenheit verbindet. Einer von Ihnen hat noch einmal einen großen Coup vorbereitet. Ziel ist der Flughafen in Hamburg. Hunderte Menschen dort ahnen nicht, dass sie bald...

Alicia Dupuis could not comprehend why she had become a target for assassination and, more puzzling, who had ordered the hit. She was acutely aware that in the duplicitous currency of security and intelligence, nothing exists without context. More...

Kayla and Sandy are best friends. Kayla lives a pretty boring life. She is a nurse practitioner and just left an abusive relationship. Watson, the abusive ex, will never leave her alone. He is obsessed with her, plus he knows her dirty little secret so...

THE MEN FROM THE BOYS Marty Bond had been a famous cop in New York. But that was before he was “retired” from the force. Now he’s a house dick at a crummy hotel, pimping, rousting, drinking too much. His stomach is killing him, and...

This town has a pretty face and a lot of ugly secrets.Mob bosses, illegal gambling, women of the night, Detective Reeves thought he had seen it all. But when bodies start mysteriously piling up, linked only by an ominous symbol carved into the chests of...

The discovery of the near-mythical night parrot lures smugglers to the heart of the Australian outback. It falls to lone wildlife officer Ric Butler to investigate but when a malevolent boss repeatedly undermines his efforts Butler proves he isn't the...

What if some secrets were never meant to stay buried?When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock – and fear.New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder...

The allies have carved up the former empire of the short-lived, thousand-year Reich. Fractured post-war Berlin is a city crawling with spies and foreign agents. The police department is being run like a corrupt puppet of its Soviet masters. Decorated...

We are in the California desert above Lake Elsinore; the remains of Terry Randall and his wife Susan are lying in the dust and grit. Susan's right hand is missing. The initial verdict is that Terry killed Susan and then himself, using the...

Rather be the hunter than the prey.Inspired by a true story.Ella Maria Chauncey walks home after a night out with her friends, hurrying to get back before her parents realize she's been out with the boy they don't want her to date. Living in the gated...

The Third installment of the Tomas O'Malley Mystery series.Tomas O'Malley simply wanted to enjoy his 55th birthday with his kids, and maybe a tall McNaughton's. Little did he know a dead body in the shadow of White Sox stadium and a dead CFO in North...

When Karl, the schizophrenic, ex-GI with post traumatic issues shows up on Duffy's caseload talking about governmental conspiracy predictions Duff takes it in stride. When Karl's terrorist predictions start coming true and he prattles on about the...

In the city of Rigid Creek, ugly things have come to blot out the light. <br><br>Corporal Joshua Marks struggles with his place life. A veteran officer and respected leader, he's reached the end of his tenure. Widowed, months from retirement,...

She's missing, and her mother knows who to blame. But nobody's listening. When the case falls to DCI Bob Valentine, however, he has no choice but to listen. <br><br>Haunted by the girl's cold gaze and her mother's hurt, the detective soon...

<i>Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Volume 2</i>, the second entry of the hard-hitting anthology series, is a crime-fiction cocktail that will again knock readers into a literary stupor. <br><br>Contributors push hard against the...

It's the kind of offer only Henry Malone would get: Local strip club owner Wallace "Bada" Bingham wants Henry to run for sheriff of Parker County, West Virginia, and he's willing to back the candidacy. But while Henry considers the proposal, Bingham's...

Tommy Shakes is a career criminal, and not a very good one. He earned his name as a heroin addict. Now he’s just a drunk, drinking so much that he spends much of his time in bathrooms, exploding from one end or the other.He’s in a marriage he...

The Fix is In as a Woman's Life Hangs in Jeopardy in Quarterback Trap, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas GorhamGraciela Perez, the gorgeous fiancée of quarterback Bob Martinez, disappears one week before the Super Bowl. Martinez hires Carlos McCrary...

A failed screenwriter turned private detective has his life turned upside-down when he’s talked into stealing MacGuffin, an unusual Tinseltown memento, from the home of one of Hollywood’s most infamous directors. This odd piece...

FROM FIRST-RATE STORYTELLER TERRENCE MCCAULEY COMES THIS GRITTY AND JADED HUNT FOR A DIABOLICAL VILLAIN RUNNING RAMPANT ON MANHATTAN'S STREETS. It's 1927, and corrupt NYPD Detective Charlie Doherty has been ordered by Chief Carmichael to hunt down a...

The paths of a cult leader, a precognitive man with a secret, and a detective with a troubled past intersect in this dark and absorbing mystery from the creator of LutherAndrew Taylor was a typical, pleasant lower-middle-class Bristol boy, content with...

From the award-winning creator of Luther: A dark portrait of a young British hitman and his quest to find something beyond his cold, brutal world.Jon Bennet is the perfect employee: systematic, productive, and utterly reliable. He is also completely...

Police chief Reid Bennett—“the most savvy cop currently in the genre”—and his dog track cold-hearted kidnappers in a Canadian crime thriller (Library Journal).Reid Bennett, the newest addition to the Murphy’s Harbour,...

Who is a Sherlockian? And how does one join the ranks of Sherlockians? <P> In "About Being a Sherlockian," sixty essays explore what it is to be a Sherlockian and celebrate the enduring friendships created. From collecting to chronology,...

Even by Hollywood standards, Nora Frost is the stage mother from Hell. Her futile drive to turn her talentless twin sons into child superstars has left figurative bodies strewn throughout Los Angeles. But after Nora hires hapless young private detective...

Cowabunga, schweetheart! A book in the manner of Surfing Samurai Robots! In a Los Angeles that is something like ours--but in which magic has become an integral part of society--P.I. Turner Cronyn doesn't know why he's being threatened by a supernatural...

In The Immortal: Alabaster, crime consultant and philosophy professor, Dr. Aaron Archer, receives a call from the LAPD to assist in the investigation of a series of gruesome murders—the victims were immobilized and their hearts were cut out. In the...

All he wanted to do that day was drive into town to look for a job. But when Pete Larkey turns the ignition key, his car won’t start. He decides to walk to town. He’ll have a morning beer at the Lemon Tree Lounge and buy a new battery for his...

When his newsroom intern jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge, 40-something reporter Daedalus Howell's reputation also takes a dive. Five years later, he's still trying to clear his conscience and his byline when Jude, a lost 11-year-old would-be thief,...

In May 1953, a bartender is brutally murdered behind a tavern in the port city of Charlestown, a working-class section of Boston. Jackie Xavier Monyhan, a longshoreman who does plenty of drinking, is the only one who has a clue that could lead to the...

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...