Fiction - Noir

Author: Eli CranorISBN-10: 1641295686ISBN-13: 9781641295680Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2024Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Broken love. Hidden crimes. A tale for anyone who has mistaken red flags for trail markers. Critics and reviewers are calling Paper Targets "Edgy and engaging," "Wonderfully written," "An astonishing novel," and "Flat-out genius." Enzi is a runaway with in-demand skills. Kaori is an...

In a dark and distant future, death is obsolete. Jonas is a transient: a human spy living as an eternal. His mission is simple: always learn, never get caught. In the year 2578, an immortal regime controls the planet. Endless war has pushed humanity...

Writing about crime is a lot more fun than being caught up in it...After former crime journalist Joe Sheldon is forced to resign from one of the nation's leading newspapers, he finds solace in sipping his vodka cranberries, listening to vinyl records in his...

Now, for the first time ever, three long-lost, relentlessly hard-boiled classics by noir master Stuart James are collected in one volume: Frisco Flat, Bucks County Report, and Judge Not My Sins."One way or another, all of his books are as strikingly memorable. Using words...

One sweltering August. Four lives lost in a single night. On the surface, the perfect Connecticut suburban neighborhood of Staniford Drive looks like a paradise; pristine lawns, large McMansions, perfect happy families, and a peaceful decadent life. But beneath the veneer of hospitality and...

Dark Money - Casino meets The Wolf of Wall Street You can't lose when the system is rigged. Dark Money takes place in Chicago and Las Vegas in 1974: Edwin R. Goldberg, a shy, geeky, amiable, MBA graduate of Northwestern University, becomes involved in...

For fans of B.A. Shapiro's The Art Forger, Alex Dolan, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Euthanist, spins a spellbinding literary thriller about art-and other criminal acts...Author: Alex DolanISBN-10: 1682302970ISBN-13: 9781682302972Publisher: Diversion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2016Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.60dReview...

An art expert joins a detective to investigate a horrific murder on a Swedish island, leading them to a mystery rooted in Viking rites and Scandinavia s deepest, darkest winter. The Queen of French Noir returns with a chilling, utterly captivating gothic thriller, based...

There's always money to be made telling rich people what they want to hear, and rich people want to hear they're rich because they're better. The One Percent is a dose of truth - the super-rich are both a symptom of a country gone...

In The Last Review, we delve into the world of Jay Satira and C. Thomas, a duo of private investigators who have recently joined forces to establish their own Detective Agency in bustling New York City. Their skills are put to the test when...

Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Volume 4, the fourth entry of the hard-hitting anthology series, is another crime-fiction cocktail that will again knock readers into a literary stupor. Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction, driving their work into places short crime...

The Rachel Condition is at once a political thriller, a family saga, and a mind-bending love story that plays out through the mysterious byways of Detroit.Antony has ostensibly traveled to Detroit in search of the last copy of a dangerous political novel, but his...

In this shrewd, timely novel with the allure of old-school noir, an aging boxer and his daughter fight back against political corruption and sexual abuse. At 40, the great boxer Max Le Corre was enjoying a renaissance, back at the top of the ticket...

This is one of Edgar Rice Burroughs few contemporary novels (now reads as historical). It makes interesting comments on prohibition, drug addiction, and early Hollywood. The ranch land that the characters ride around on, is now suburbia. It proves an interesting view into a...

"I'd travel with Mami Suzuki anywhere in Japan." --Naomi Hirahara, author, Clark and Division Single mother and straight-talking private eye Mami Suzuki takes cases the Kobe police have little time for and proves that quick wits and compassion solve mysteries faster Beneath the sheen...

No place left to run...After the shocking events of last Christmas, Jess Croft is determined this festive season will be the one to remember, for all the right reasons.But when a stranger turns up on her doorstep claiming to be her estranged father, Jess...

"A dynamic, diverse and above all brilliant collection of stories." Mark Billingham Sunday Times Bestselling Crime Writer, Comedian, ActorThe Arabian Noir anthology represents a milestone for the Crime Writers Association's (CWA) Gulf Chapter. Editor-authors Michael Lynes and Alex Shaw have compiled a collection that...

A man fresh from prison meets a new group of friends...A painter grapples with a dark and troubling power...The Great Lakes are rising, and bringing more than just water...The team behind the Dark Waters Podcast brings you a collection of noir, horror, and thrilling...

In the follow-up to One-Shot Harry, fearless crime photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram finds himself in the LAPD's crosshairs after capturing damning evidence of police brutality. An atmospheric dive into a city on the brink that's brimming with remarkable historical detail, Ash...

Sam Straight wants to be a good lawyer. Instead he finds himself disillusioned in 1990s LA, daydreaming in court of the gentle savior he wants to be, and drinking away his frustrations at night in his office. But he is violently shaken from the...

When janitor Truman Pierce isn't listening to his classical jazz records, he stays under the radar and keeps to himself. Nothing much happens in his world until popular college instructor Danielle Hutchins asks him out. The day after their first date, Pierce finds Danielle...

In The Last ReviewJay Satira and C. Thomas are private investigators who have recently teamed up to form their own Detective Agency in New York City.So, when they are called on to investigate the murders of prominent entertainment critics who are dropping faster than...

No crime is committed in a vacuum. In this thought-provoking collection, James Fleming uncovers the cultural and personal relevance of the crime noir genre. As a critic, his essays and reviews explore the profound and nuanced role society plays in the making of a...

Vic Valentine is lost inside the space between his ears. His lifelong slow-burning mental meltdown, sexual obsessiveness, fatal self-absorption, and epic existential angst have resulted in a complete break from conventional external reality. Now convinced his entire life is a movie, he finds himself...

A novel of violence, of love, and introspection, The Up-Down follows a man who leaves home and all that's familiar, finds true love, loses it, and finds it again. Pace's voyage is outward, among strangers, and inward into the fifth direction that is the...

The Queen Mary was launched in 1934 and served as a transatlantic liner, troop transport, and cruise ship until it was mysteriously moored in 1967 at the port of Long Beach, California. On October 31st 1967 the Queen Mary unknowingly sailed its final and...

Long time grifters Sam and Rachel love two things: each other and the grift. On the run from the mob, the two lovers move from one con to the next, winning some and losing others, but always finding a way to survive. Episodes 26-28...

Long time grifters Sam and Rachel love two things: each other and the grift. On the run from the mob, the two lovers move from one con to the next, winning some and losing others, but always finding a way to survive. Season Four...

"TAUT, FLY-BY-NIGHT, MANIC FUN""GRIPPING!""CRAZY!""A REMARKABLE SUSPENSE!" In 1979 Glenn is a chef at the Silver Lake Inn when his experiences of lost time become inhabited by a violent and dangerous part of himself he doesn't know. A week before the First Lady of The...

A gripping psychological thriller from bestselling author, L. H. Stacey!A woman on the run...Madeleine Frost knows she has to get away from her partner Liam. His behaviour has become increasingly controlling and Maddie fears for her safety and that of her young daughter Poppy.Desperation...

Before he was Razor the Mafia Don.Before he was Razor the Consigliere to Joey Leftfoot and third in line to run the Leftfoot Crime Family.He was Anthony DeLuca, the young Italian confidence man.Come along with Olivia Wainwright as she learns a little more about...

He hasn't written anything new since his critically acclaimed novel debuted in 1922, and by 1927 Ernest Stringer is living in poverty with his artist lover in a drafty Greenwich Village flat when he meets Anthony Young, the prolific author of a bestselling mystery...

Vic Valentine, Private Eye is back in business-as a dog walker. A really, really bad one. While drunk in a dive bar one rainy Seattle night, one of his canine clients tied up outside goes missing. The twisted trail leads him from Vancouver to...

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of "double features" reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions. Volume Two: Lavender Blonde (a novel in dialogue) and the satirical crime thriller Down a Dark Alley present a dual...

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of "double features" reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions.Volume One: A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge and Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room is the...

The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres--an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies. In 1985, with the acclaimed Suspects, and then in 1990 with the exhilarating Silver Light, David Thomson delivered unprecedented fictions in which the characters were...

A pair of violent mystery novels starring London detective Scott Mitchell, the groundbreaking PI who introduced Britain to hardboiled crime fiction. Junkyard Angel starts with Scott Mitchell deciding to sneak into a flat he's supposed to be watching from across the road to avoid...

An adrenaline-fueled journey into war-torn Yemen, this novel is the perfect read for fans of fast-paced fiction. Luke Archer, a British Egyptian doctor, runs from his problematic past in the UK and becomes a war surgeon. When he is taken hostage by Western security...

It's l9l8. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama--harrowing and provocative--slowly unfolds. It begins when Elizabeth Frame murders her...

No place left to run...After the shocking events of last Christmas, Jess Croft is determined this festive season will be the one to remember, for all the right reasons.But when a stranger turns up on her doorstep claiming to be her estranged father, Jess...

When Mushie, the popular street hustler of counterfeit watches, sneakers, and kitchen gadgets, comes into Duffy's bar bleeding from a gunshot wound to the stomach, Duffy and the gang are baffled. Everyone loved Mush who didn't have a mean bone in his body, Sure,...

One of the Twelve Best Indie Horror Books of 2023 - The LineupNebraska city, 1901.There's a curse on Arbor Lodge-an elusive demon reclaiming the illustrious home in the name of the prairie-and its owner, J. Sterling Morton, proud statesman, is desperate. It couldn't be...

An indomitable man uncovers his dying mother's explosive secrets as he battles dispassionate doctors who are reluctant to waste resources on her terminal condition.Author: Mike NemethISBN-10: 1683506979ISBN-13: 9781683506973Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2018Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.76d

"MAFIA QUEEN! The most powerful, feared, and despised underworld Czar since Al Capone. Nickole Colletti is the Mafia Queen! She stops at nothing to avenge her real father's brutal murder and to regain all the power and possessions that his executioners have taken away....

A gripping psychological thriller from bestselling author, L. H. Stacey!A woman on the run...Madeleine Frost knows she has to get away from her partner Liam. His behaviour has become increasingly controlling and Maddie fears for her safety and that of her young daughter Poppy.Desperation...

An alluring affair in Napoli. Nick seeks the value of an antique bracelet in his possession. He encounters Laura, an amateur medium cursed by uncontrollable visions. With Laura's help, Nick closes in on the origin of his treasure. But as the word gets out,...

Tomorrow Won't Be Any Better is a collection of short stories in the noir fiction genre, where the protagonists are morally compromised, the settings are raw and gritty, and the bleakness of human nature is revealed. A fun-read for those attracted to the dark...

Hit Your Brights captures people in tough spots, often of their own making. Fusing humor and tragedy, these thirteen gritty stories keep readers in suspense. Danger lurks, the needle skips, the bomb goes off, and the empties pile up. Outcomes are unpredictable, but the...

When debts are paid, secrets become unveiled...Tony Flaner, the ultimate sleuth-turned-slacker, has traded in his life as a detective for a job as a dog sitter. However, he quickly realizes that his new career path may not be as mundane as he hoped, and...