Noir fiction Books

A group of refugees cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya in search of a better life. When they reach shore on the island of Isola Bella, Sicily, they are gunned down in a senseless massacre. Their bodies are found by an Australian tourist, Susan...

Vanessa loves her job as a chiropractor, except sometimes her work takes an unexpected turn...A Pain in the Neck forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.

Larry's been the supervisor of the apartment block for as long as the tenants can remember.And he knows all their secrets...The Last Super forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.

Someone's been setting him up. Can he stay alive long enough to take down a lethal threat?Iranian ex-police detective Rebwar still struggles to gain his footing in London. Barely making ends meet driving an Uber, he can't keep his marriage from fraying...

He's just trying to keep his head down. A brazen murder may force him to face his end.Former Iranian police detective and covert investigator Rebwar struggles to recover from his last brutal case. But with his illegal migrant status used by his shadow...

    Claraicy was both physically and psychologically abused by her father.  While left in the woods to die, she was attacked by a pair of strange creatures.  After surviving a harsh winter, she begins to mutate and grow stronger...

Most of us come into this world with an inborn need for religion, a higher power to believe in. However, when fear and misunderstanding are the driving forces behind that desire, the result is rarely a good thing.Eight years ago, Laura Bradford...

Detective Tomas O'Malley had his last days in Chicago include the red light of a laser scope locked on his chest outside the hospital where his partner lay dying. Sandman's bomb had been meant for him. It was at that moment that he wanted Mike Sandman to...

An intimate member of the Esposito family becomes the victim of murder by heroin overdose. Suspicion is cast on the gangster kingpin from Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow, Frank Vinson, but Mickey Barksdale, Boston's equivalent in the criminal world, might bear...

Wally Sample-John Bekker's overzealous and often confused friend, and heir to the Sample Iced Tea Company-returns to ask for Bekker's help one more time...At a company bachelor part, Wally meets and falls in love with a stripper named Barbara 'Bubbles'...

Homecoming queen. Cheerleader. Heroin addict. <br><br>Meadow Charles had all the promise in the world-and secrets to hide. Someone else tried to hide Meadow's secrets when they murdered her and left her body at the Parker County landfill...

A reluctant assassin is born. A con man tries to sell the Grand Central clock. A superhero is dying to lose her powers. <br><br>In thirteen fast-moving stories, the author of <i>Hipster Death Rattl</i>e explores the tragic world...

New York private eye Miles Jacoby is hired to find a stolen collection of pulp magazines, but before long he's tangling with mobsters, hungry women and a sly killer.  The Miles Jacoby series was previously published under the series title,...

Robert "Butch" Bliss has spent the last ten years in prison, for crimes he didn't commit. Now, his time served, he's ready to get out and find his way back to the world he knew.Or not, because his old job? Working in the adult filmed...

Associate Curator of European Art Joe Cocktail, is having a bad week. His boss just bought a forged painting and Joe’s got all the top brass at the museum on his back for bringing the fact to their attention. Now, with the 100th Anniversary Gala...

The first hard-boiled detective character, "Three-Gun" Terry Mack is collected for the first time. This groundbreaking series from the pages of Black Mask magazine set the template for all Black Mask authors to follow. Written by Carroll John Daly, Terry...

The Black Mask writings of one of the great detective pulp writers are finally collected in book form. Author Norbert Davis broke in to the pages of the prestigious Black Mask magazine while still in college: sales which launched his influential pulp...

Laughing Death is a story of gunfire and airships, of love and revenge. Sanford Greer (S.G.), Prosecuting Attorney of Center City, is put "on the spot" by five men. Gary Greer, who is the pilot in charge of the South Side Airport, starts out to get those...

When Mac tries to help a friend collect an unpaid bill, he gets more than he bargained for...including a corpse!#17 in the Mac detective series!"Mac is one of our best private eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective...

Through her uncanny powers of observation, Jane Lindsey has just revealed the killer in a complicated case. Even though the investigation has officially concluded, Jane cannot let go of an uneasy feeling that something is wrong. Every week, she paddles...

He's a tough cop, a Mountie by the name of Corporal Soda, alias the Soda Cracker. He and his partner, Phil, work downtown Vancouver, flushing out the city's scum-its hookers, dealers, and hoods. They've been together as a team for years; then one day the...

C.B. Green has a unique perspective of the world. This Portland, Oregon, private detective is color blind. But he doesn't let this detail stop him from doing his job and doing it well. He's a good guy; he's known as someone who never lies, never cheats,...

When influential people work with congressional power brokers they want the nation to follow their spin on things. Jessica and her seasoned team are called in to investigate the collusion. Along the way they uncover a sinister plot behind the pandemic...

FULLY DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MINDJohnny Price first meets the little old man at the scene of a streetside murder. The little man confesses that it was he who shot the man, and Johnny figures he's either drunk or crazy, and walks away. He stops in at a...

Matthew - ist mein Name.Ein Vatermörder bin ich. Hört meine Geschichte!Einen Zunamen habe ich nicht. Es ist auch egal. Und um der Familie Willen, spielt er auch keine Rolle. Geboren wurde ich auf der Straße einer großen Stadt, deren Name "Not und Elend"...

Ein illustrierter Tübinger RegionalkrimiRichard Wolf ist ein heruntergekommener Privatdetektiv, der zu viel trinkt und der Vergangenheit nachhängt. Erst vor kurzem ist er nach Tübingen gezogen, und nicht wenig überrascht, als ihn eine geheimnisvolle Frau...

Un roman d'une telle noirceur est rare. On entre directement dans la tête d'un homme. Un homme en apparence banal qui sirote son petit café au bar du coin, en feuilletant des magazines de jardinage. Un homme qui observe ses contemporains entre deux...

À huit ans Lucy Otton est victime d'un accident qui la laisse un peu bancale.À seize, son frère Gus massacre son géniteur à grands coups de batte de baseball.À quarante, Emmy Otton, leur mère, semble avoir réalisé que la vie à Boneville n'a plus...

THE ACTION MAN Denton Farr has everything he needs, money, and a fine woman. So why plan the perfect, impossible heist? Why do something that would bring the federals and the syndicate howling after him; why try a stunt that could easily get him...

As a private eye closes in on her city's secrets, there are those who will go to any lengths to stop her.After the horrific events of our last chapter, Jacqui's in a medical predicament. If she wants to stay free from the Spadros crime syndicate, she has...

Grip McCormack has never stepped on an ant.But, at seventeen, he shoots his abusive father, Amos, off the roof of their Kentucky home. Go figure.The murder trial dominates the news for months and brings a torrent of notoriety to the agoraphobic young...

Millionaire lawyer Carlton Phillips has lost track of his daughter Marcy. Her last known whereabouts were at her school, Syracuse University. While trying to track down Marcy and/or her geeky boyfriend Sean Loomis on a quick trip upstate, Swann follows...

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...

They took her son. She wants him back. Is this her chance?The phone call changes Jess Kimball's life forever.He leads her on a breathless and dangerous chase through the Rocky Mountains.When she catches up with the blackmailing bastard she'll make him...

Heart pounding thriller and suspense from award-winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane CapriHe kills from afar. Until Jess Kimball makes it personal.An explosion ripped through a close-knit community in Iowa, leaving five dead,...

"Intricate and Ingenious. Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child, #1 World-Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers FBI Agents Otto and Gaspar pick up with where Lee Child's "The Hard Way" leaves off in...

A kidnapped baby. A mother's will to find her. A killer targeting them both.Three years ago, Tina Alvarez was trapped in a sex-trafficking ring. Three years ago, she bore a daughter who was sold on the black market. But three years didn't erase her...

Hard Fall: Special Edition with Bonus Novella, After ShockAfter Shock (Lucy Guardino Thriller #4)As head of the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Squad, Agent Lucy Guardino has made a name for herself bringing the lowest of lowlifes to justice...

Jack's short stint as a soldier in Afghanistan comes to an abrupt end under suspicious circumstances, and he leaves, traumatised and guilt-stricken. While trying to overcome depression and rebuild his confidence, he is unwittingly caught up in the...

Young undercover cop Érica Sánchez is struggling with everything: her job, a changed Madrid, her personal crusade against sexual abuse and even Sebastián, her boringly normal boyfriend who works as a ministerial chauffeur.The good old Spain that she...

<p><b>A cop at the tail end of his career goes on the hunt when an unplanned kidnapping hits close to home...<br></b><br>Officer Sean Coyle's making one last run working the streets at a time when his friends are trading in...

Howard Giordano's charismatic protagonist, Luke Rizzo, is back in The Dark Side of the City. In this story, Rizzo takes on the Mafia. Again collaborating with his favorite FBI agent, Rizzo brings down a flourishing money-laundering operation, all the...

A nanny will go to any length to save a kidnapped Mafia prince in this madcap mobster farce by the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.   Her name is Nanny, and she’s the most cutthroat woman in New York. Prim, slender, and...