Noir fiction Books

THE LOVERIn which Lieutenant Al Wheeler is given--36 hours to solve the murder of the slain sun-worshipper-a second murder to solve when the victim's boyfriend is also stabbed to death-a bevy of beautiful suspects who all seem to revere the mysterious...

THE MONEY TRAPIt starts with a break-in. Detective Joe Baron and his partner, Pete Delanos, interview a Dr. Pantell who has just shot a man he found breaking into his office. Before he dies, the thief confesses that he was there to rob the safe, which...

"A crime thriller with the dramatic breath of a Martin Scorsese movie. Gangsters, terrorists, bikers, cops, you name it -- they're all here clashing together as goons wipe out their competition and bombers blow up parts of New York City. It'll keep you...

FLIGHT TO DARKNESS I murdered my brother with a sculptor's mallet. But it was only a dream. It was a dream I always had. I hated my brother. I was going home to see him now, get it out of my system, and then spend the rest of my life...

Orphaned at ten, by twenty he has already killed countless people...  Ripped away from an impoverished childhood just days after his tenth birthday, Brendan must spend the next decade of his daunting life learning how to survive within the...

To save his beleaguered city, his career, his family and his very life, Patrick MacKenna must confront a ruthless saboteur and killerWhen architect and city planner Patrick MacKenna discovers the body of the city manager, his staunchest advocate, in the...

The drugs are missing and four lives are about to collide.Clyde just wanted to make a little extra cash on the side to raise his new baby. Now his life and the lives of his wife and newborn daughter are in jeopardy.Brent just wanted to do his job and be...

Death is lurking amongst the equivocal high society of a rich Venetian town, where life is suddenly disturbed by the actions of a merciless assassin who uses strange rituals in killing his victims leaving no trace.An ordinary employee, a detective...

A chance encounter in a Belfast car park puts a dent in Dr Nelson's beloved 'P'n'J' Mercedes. But when an attractive dark-haired young woman steps out of the other car, his credulity is more than dented. It's blown apart, and so is his comfortable life...

Kerstin is wide awake. While her family sleeps around her, the devastating secret her husband just told her is spinning through her mind. Does she really know the man she married? And are her children still safe in this small town? She jumps as she...

Gabby Mulder was loving her winter in Aspen, Colorado, until a dangerous event with a ghost nearly killed her. Not that she was a believer but, given the circumstances, she had to be open to such a possibility. When one of her roommates is brutally...

The Steel Deal-At 55, big city sleuth Sonny Busco is sinking deep into debt and distrust when suddenly he's thrown a lifeline. The chief assistant to a prominent university professor offers $2500 for safe delivery of a confidential briefcase to Santa Fe,...

Tales of Old Today RetoldEmbark on an adventure like no other! Explore the enigmatic world of The Painted Gate, where a mysterious portal holds the key to a life-alerting journey. Along the way, a mystery unravels, revealing answers decades in the making...

"Dark, edgy and riveting, the stories by John David Wells are white knuckles for the mind, capturing the incomprehensible depths of madness, cruelty and despair in modern society. Written from the gut these stories rise up from the same lyrical dark...

I was tired of looking over my shoulder and tired watching what I said. I was tired of running and hiding. It sounded dramatic---lure a sitting United States president to a small African country. Little did Firsen and I know, that would be just the start...

Jeff Brunt has landed the job he has studied for years to get and he is now a trainee solicitor at a big City corporate law firm. Unfortunately the hours he works and the pressure of the job is starting to make him think he made the wrong career choice...

When a high-ranking diplomat is being blackmailed, government agent Mike Hammond is given his orders: "Find this blackmailer, and he's all yours. You're judge and jury and...executioner." This gripping mystery short novel is just one of five thrilling...

In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip one book over to read the second title), here is the ninth Wildside Mystery Double:VIVACIOUS VIXENS & BLACKMAIL BABES: TALES OF EROTIC NOIR, by Michael Hemmingson. Blackmail babes, dangerous dames, femme...

In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip one book over to read a second title), here's the eighth Wildside Mystery Double:CRAWLSPACE AND OTHER DARK STORIES, by Lonni Lees. David Zeltserman says: "When Hardboiled Magazine publishes new authors, I've...

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the fourth Wildside Mystery Double:DEVIL'S PLAGUE: A Mystery Novel, by Michael R. Collings.The scene lay tranquil and peaceful--except for the...

In an unnamed and timeless Latin American country, the lives of six men and three police officers intertwine after a brutal murder in a gay bathhouse. Dan Landes, an expatriate retired Los Angeles cop, is recruited to hunt for a serial killer who preys...

Can Max Royster, fired from the NYPD for mental disease, on crutches, train a ragtag group of performers, his Showbizzers, to use their skills and bodies to stop a genius crime lord in the High Desert town of Basta, California?***** Bounced from...

Justice wasn’t her concern. Until Now.Bounty hunter Jinx Ballou is struggling to rebuild her life after a series of terrorist attacks shattered her world.When a new job offer comes her way, she is forced to choose between returning an innocent...

Inspired by real events. Trouble is brewing in Key West, in 1950. Stephen Trumbull was a 'hardboiled' reporter and columnist for the Miami Herald. He drank too much and had a mouth on him. All he cared about was reporting the truth. Reporting the truth...

#1 New York Times Bestselling author"As dark and twisted as anything Hammett or Chandler ever dreamed up" Kirkus, Starred Review Harvey Mapes is a 26-year-old security guard who learned everything he knows about being a private eye from books and TV .....

The Serpent's Garden is a crime/thriller about the macabre and mysterious murders of five female graduate students at UCLA. A charismatic but controversial philosophy professor has been falsely charged and convicted of the ritualistic murders. All the...

Shortly after moving into a new house, a young woman named Ashley Robbins is found murdered. Suspicion immediately falls upon the woman's ex-con boyfriend, George Reid. Assigning the case to the dismal alcoholic Detective Cotton, he learns the victim had...

Naked corpses are found on a rental houseboat. There¿s a Hollywood connection, a drug ring connection, a crooked cop among the investigators, and a killer hiding where no one would look. It could be an unsolvable crime¿until an alcoholic ex-deputy and...

The time is the Depression years of the 1930's, the dirty thirties as they were then called. The place is the town/village of Nelsonville, Dutchess County, New York. The characters, Leroy Andrew Bridges, the printer's devil and editorial assistant...

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...

Amelia Hartliss, Special Agent - Melia to her friends and 'Heartless' to her enemies - is always landing the worst of jobs. Right now, she's been given the task of baby-sitting a candidate in the local government elections. The problem is, that of all...

**Mature content. May not be suitable for some readers.** She was almost home. Then they came for her. >>>Caught between warring crime factions, Alice Trent is on the run again. Abducted by Vegas mobsters, she now finds herself...

Clara Bardés, neta de um famoso pintor falecido, foi contratada para restaurar uma série de pinturas, algumas datadas da Idade Média, que estão preservadas na Catedral de Notre-Dame, em Paris. Durante uma visita solitária à parte superior do prédio,...

LOVE STINKS! BUT LOVE CAN ALSO KILL!When Moonlight and his sort of loyal sidekick, 1977 Fat Elvis, come upon a pretty young lady while fishing off of Moonlight's riverside deck, Elvis decides to serenade her with a song and dance. But when he trips and...

Clara Bardésová, vnučka slavného zesnulého malíře, byla najata, aby zrestaurovala sérii obrazů, z nichž některé pocházejí ze středověku a které jsou uchovány v katedrále Notre-Dame v Paříži. Při osamělé návštěvě horní části budovy, když už turisté...

MENUVIAA sparkling gem made rough stone, the seat of political power in the Kingdom of Vale. Revolt foments among the patrician class and open gang war looms on the horizon. As the Argentine Tower plots revolution, a lone thief with a past as dark as...

Donna and Jack must infiltrate a major media conglomerate's newspaper, television, and radio divisions in order to stop a foreign state's covert attempt to sabotage the American president influence U.S. politics.

Based on a true story… For fans of Raymond Chandler, Sunset Boulevard, and all things noir... It's Los Angeles. Michael is a brilliant seventeen-year-old with a mind for numbers and a habit of staying out late. Jake Logan, a...

Silver, a mysterious mercenary with a dark past, and Henrietta "Hank the Hawk" Smith, a brave and idealistic archeologist, find themselves in a race against time to locate an artifact that could reveal a secret buried by history.Two powerful corporations...

Embark on Seven Exciting Cases!Detective Bryant moved across the intersection alongside the car that waited for him. When the light changed, that driver gave their gas pedal more attention, causing the white hatch-back to drive off quickly. It neared the...

Lift Your Spirits High With This Enchanting Tale!When his children and elderly father go missing, Inspector Cary Oriel becomes the prime suspect in their disappearance. Evading their captures and searching for answers, he comes across Captain Larry...

Janson Mancheski surprised the 2010 crime writing field by winning the prestigious Sharp Writ Book Awards with his novel The Chemist. Since then, "The Chemist Series" books have entertained fans of action, suspense, and twisty crime thrillers. In his new...

As most of New York City sleeps, Athena Paradis, one of the most glamorous and desired women in the world, steps onto the red carpet at an exclusive nightclub. Suddenly a shot rings out, and Athena dies amidst hundreds of cameras and spotlights. When...

Housewife assassin Donna Stone must be more than just ready for her close-up if she’s to stop a terrorist cell intent on exposing the United States' vulnerability to an attack on American soil. The only intel provided to Donna, Jack, and their...

Private investigator Bryson Wilde lives in an edgy 1952 world where nothing is black and white, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and even the simplest case has more dangerous twists than whiskey-soaked jazz. In this riveting pulp noir thriller from...