Fiction - Noir

From award-winning author J. M. Holmes, a tightly-wound tale of passion, murder and greed. This hardboiled noir crime novel, set in the arid West Texas scrublands, dives deep into dark, dangerous places populated by a host of seedy and corrupt characters. Whether fighting to...

Written by the Grammy-nominated Howard Paar, Once Upon a Time in LA is a dark, thrilling ride deep into the lives of a megalomaniac record label chairman, mob-related radio promotion men, and a young band that gets sucked into the vortex. The book's Sptify...

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...

Detective Jan Larkin's career with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is rife with success. But an elevated level of achievement comes at a high personal price. "Echoes of Janie" begins with Jan summoned by her partner, Detective Seeward Sinclair, to examine a body on...

Crime Fiction Lover's Top Five Books of 2020On a snowy Thursday night in Chicago, there is a knock on Detective Hank Purcell's door. Sister Mary Philomena has seen something terrible at Saint Fidelis Church -- a violation of all she holds sacred.The next Monday,...

The deified post-Impressionist Parisian painter, Andre Arnaud, has been the subject of numerous theories since his premature death at age 29. Why did only photographs remain of his 17 paintings until two are mysteriously discovered? Did the German Waffen-SS murder him as well as...

This book is a thriller set in an alternate America both familiar and unfamiliar--a darkening society in which ordinary, honest citizens fear their own government. Six recipients of Extraordinary Designation Cards (i.e., Red Cards) are hiding on an abandoned northern Michigan movie set, seeking...

This rich and compelling story of four traveling junkies who lives revolve around looting drugstores was made into the movie voted best film of 1989 by the National Society of Film critics and is published here for the first time.Author: James FogleISBN-10: 038530224XISBN-13: 9780385302241Publisher:...

Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue. Having recently undergone an ethical awakening, Pillow has converted to veganism and is in the middle of trying to rehome his menagerie of...

Aspiring film director Julian Waxman is pushing forty with nothing to show for himself. His single-minded obsession with restoring the failed 1980s horror film, "Grave Goods," for DVD, sets in motion a search to locate both the film's lost sequences and its forgotten star....

Step right up, folks, and get ready for a wild ride into the seedy underbelly of 1930s Nashville with"Gripping Tales from The Case Files of Slaughterhouse Investigations: Volume 1." This collection of crime noir tales brings together the first three books in the Slaughterhouse...

With Night Work, award-winning author of the acclaimed Alex McKnight series Steve Hamilton delivers an atmospheric stand-alone thriller.Joe Trumbull is not a man who scares easily. But tonight he is scared to death.It's been two years since the murder of Joe's fianc馥, Laurel. Two...

As Bergen PI Varg Veum investigates two different cases, it becomes clear that they are uncannily similar to harrowing events that took place thirty-six years earlier... A gripping instalment of the award-winning Varg Veum series, by one of the fathers of Nordic Noir. As...

Madeline Sharpe, a disgraced detective turned private investigator, is asked by a former colleague to consult on a perplexing homicide case. She reluctantly accepts the job. But while following her quarry's trail, she encounters things she can't explain, things that defy reason. She then...

Reporter Mark Freer learns that the body of an old girlfriend has been found, beaten to death, in the county where he now lives and works south of Atlanta. He left the girl, Amelia, years before due to her drug addiction but feels guilty...

Publishers Weekly: "Impressive storytelling chops." Booklist: "Fast-moving, wildly violent . . . vivid and rich in character . . . Strong, well-realized country noir." St. Louis Post Dispatch: "Jesse James Kennedy lives up to his first and middle name." Bill Crider: "The two opening...

The aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher reveals the darkest corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery from the master of Japanese literary noir. Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body-- then two, then three, then four. All...

A compulsively readable and razor-sharp campus novel about the impact of power and consent in a university setting Perfect for fans of Cho Nam-joo, I May Destroy You, and If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio Riveting and uncompromising, Another Person explores the...

Dear God, Forgive Me, for I am About to Kill Again! When a hired assassin and ex-priest, is asked to kill the wife of his Russian gangster boss, he swears this will be his final job. Not only is he sick and tired of...

A High-stakes Game of Dominoes Turns into a Deadly Who Dunnit...Lo Walsh is back in the PI game! And not a moment too soon.When a lawyer asks Lo for help, he's not sure he what he can do. TPD has his client cold for...

THE FLOODS OF FEARSpring is late, and the warm rains of June create a flood that threatens all the small towns and farms in its path. The dikes need to be shored up, and the situation is so desperate that prison inmates are added...

Roger Jech doesn't have any superpowers, but he has a super ability: harm him, harm yourself in equal measure. Hit him with a right hook, your jaw breaks. Shoot him in the head, your brains blow out the back of you. Drop him in...

This 20th Anniversary Edition offers the first fully revised version of Pablo D'Stair's cult thriller, unavailable for 15 years. From his secure building, in his respectable neighborhood, awaiting his wedding day, Timothy Spell has no need to be aware of or concerned by the...

"A suspense novel from page one, and you never knew which way the character or storyline was going to go." -Reading Is My RemedyKenny Elliot has decided to quit his job as a police detective with a knack for perceiving things beyond the scope...

After five years of living a quiet life in rural Oklahoma, hitman Lefty Collins and his daughter Layla's past comes back to haunt them when the Detroit mob boss who let them go kidnaps Layla to force Lefty and his former rival Orlando Williams...

The aftermath of the Vietnamese liberation of Cambodia sets the stage for a chilling pursuit of justice. In the refugee camps along the Thai border, a ruthless killer is targeting young girls. Decades later, a series of similar crimes in Phnom Penh awakens painful...

FREAKSHOWBat Fidler has always been a loner, never able to fit in with other people. Then he lands a wrestling job at a carnival sideshow. That's where he meets Emmy, a scrappy stripper, and Fish Boy, the belligerent guy in charge-and his lovely wife,...

For fans of True Detective and Ozark--"Once you're in the novel's grip, it's difficult to break free. A predator thriller with a difference, by a rising star in the field." --Kirkus Reviews To stop a serial killer terrorizing the hills of rural Washington state,...

In between gigs as a Hollywood movie Teamster, self-proclaimed sailing bum Mike Millek moonlights as a freelance, armed chauffeur to the stars. When Mike arrives one night to pick up his deadbeat client, rap music producer Pays Lee, at his private jet Mike finds...

Eddie Miles is a Chicago cabdriver who spends most of his waking hours behind the wheel of his night-shift taxi. His only friends are a small circle of fellow cabbies. He lost his wife to divorce years ago. She then moved west out to...

THE DARK CORNERKathleen Conley is the perfect secretary. And she knows a tail when she sees one. The guy in the white suit has been following her detective boss, Bradford Galt, all evening. So Galt braces the guy and takes him to his office...

DEALING... PRODUCING... ALL IN A DAY'S WORK FOR A DRUGLORD. OR IN HOLLYWOOD. Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top....

A prejudice-driven serial killer is on the rampage in Motor City, and it's up to Detective Harvey Havoc and his new partner Lenard Graves to catch them before these hate crimes tear the city apart. Meanwhile, while on suspension, Detective Shay Smith is trying...

Graphic designer Paul has a history. Having organized events on the London rave scene and supplied recreational drugs across the capital, he turns his back on his past life and leaves the UK to travel the world, picking up the odd bit of legal...

If you were going to die, who would you kill? Tommy is a retired cop and former Marine, with a lot of regret and little time left. In an effort to become a better person, he tries to purge himself of his prejudices while...

In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land.Les, a long-time sheriff just three-weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and...

Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back...

1970s New York City is borderline bankrupt. Police departments, public schools and other municipalities are struggling under massive layoffs, buildings are abandoned, and the streets are rife with crime and drugs. For Johnny Alvarez, a precocious young runaway, the decay, and lawlessness offer camouflage...

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...