Fiction - Noir

SLASH OF CRIMSON AND OTHER TALES offers two novellas and six short stories that combine an intoxicating mix of horror, crime noir, and alt-mythology. Its title story spins a dark maritime yarn about Drew Aldrin, a young guitarist and street rough, who takes a...

Settright Road is a collection of 20 short stories and one longer piece of fiction, all set in and around a string of busted Massachusetts mill towns during the cocaine-fueled 1980s. Its pages are colored by unforgettable characters: a teenage lothario whose plans to...

Worthy is the story of Ludmila--or Worthy, as she comes to be known--a "former" con artist from Eastern Europe managing an eccentric, failing strip club in Tampa for her lover, Leo. Though there is much she won't reveal, she gradually unravels the story of...

Love is a Grift by Graham Wynd Cover and layout by S.L. Johnson ImagesSex, Death and Crime: The essentials of Noir.How does obsession begin? For one hit man it starts with a target he just can't kill. She leads him on a deadly spree...

A brilliantly authentic, well-crafted tale of naivety, betrayal and personal resolution, set against the colourful backdrop of bustling souks, Moroccan sunsets and dust-filled streets... An engrossing read. Polly CourtneyMaia is leaving London to paint in the bright sunlight and exotic setting of Morocco. Working...

A murder gone wrong. A worldwide police hunt for the killer. And a fugitive who became a legend: The 7th Earl of Lucan. The Lord Lucan Scandal is one of the greatest and most extraordinary mysteries of the 20th Century. Ever since Lucky Lord...

Filmmaker Rose Leclair is beautiful, famous, and happily married. But when a new star actress begins commanding unwelcome amounts of attention--even, reportedly, from Rose's own husband--her life of privilege unspools. First published in 1967, The Camera Always Lies is an absorbing novel of Hollywood...

Awarded Finalist Prize in the 2019 American Fiction Awards 'Short Stories' Category by American Book Fest. An utterly fascinating and wryly composed collection of companion stories to Edward Gorey's alphabetical illustrations in 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies. These darkly humorous tales capture the essence of wit...

Foreword INDIES FinalistLibrary Journal Pick of the Month for November 2017Crime. Vengeance. Love. Physics.The infamous Deadbomb Bingo Ray is a high level fixer in the City of Brotherly Love. He's the man you call when you've crossed the line into hopeless and there's no...

Excerpt from AT THE ACADEMY OF MESOZOIC DANCE: AN INTRODUCTION: Welcome to audition and placement examinations for the Academy of Mesozoic Dance, First Year Forms. Applications are open to any dinosaur between two and six years of age, and must be stamped by a...

Nominated for a 2018 Shamus Award in Best Original Private Eye (paperback) In] this tricky and delightfully surprising crime novel...Spinelli deftly segues from one genre to another--from hard-boiled noir to paranoid thriller, puzzle mystery (with each and every riddle logically explained), spy caper, and...

A prescient 1970s sci-fi novel about death, celebrity, and the ubiquity of reality television, and the basis for the movie Death Watch. Katherine Mortenhoe lives in a near future very similar to the present day. Only in her time, dying from anything but old...

Famous for his satirical works, William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. This novel is considered to be, one of his most notable works, a panoramic portrait of English society.Author: William Makepeace ThackerayISBN-10: 1511674946ISBN-13: 9781511674942Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Jon Stanton finds his life unraveling. His fianc has left him. His panic attacks are growing more acute. He's attacking his job with ferocity and violence. After nearly killing a human trafficker after he had surrendered, Stanton realizes he's losing control. And knows it...

Thomas Dietrich doesn't look for trouble, but it always slithers up from the depths of Hell to find him. Set in 1950's Nashville, Voodoo Rumors brings to life the secret files of P.I. Thomas Dietrich as he battles the werewolves, vampires, and demons that...

Following a horrific murder in a sleepy suburb of York, a local journalist receives a cryptic clue from someone claiming to be the killer. The clue hints at where the next murder will take place.Teaming up with the Senior Investigating Officer, Gene Garland, they...

Greenhill Tennessee Police chief Buck Peters, an upstanding citizen and the deacon of his local church, investigates the murder Rita, a wealthy widow known as the "town tramp." The prime suspect is Kip Belton, the police commissioner, whose alibi is that he was with...

When your girlfriend is selling your used condoms, rethink the relationship.High school is until death do us part.Clowns! That's all we're gonna say.Could anything be worse than looking like Ben Affleck? Well, yeah.Issue Eight of Rock And A Hard Place chose its own theme....

My name is Rev. I like long walks on the beach. A neat scotch. And I like stealing from rich losers who have no idea the town's Big Bad Wolf screwed their wives six ways to Sunday. Such a scandal, indeed. I have one...

Terry Rader is cleaning his rental port-o-lets in MacArthur Park when he finds a young woman, her blue hospital scrubs covered with thick, dried blood. Her name is Denise White. She is a nurse practitioner, employed by a USC health clinic in the mid-Wilshire...

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again! Who was the mind behind The Lone Ranger? It's 1930s Buffalo, and the Great...

Nishnabotna County is a place where meanness is a duty and most are diligent in their charge, if not zealous. The spirit of the people is captured by their favorite psalm, "It's dog eat dog and Devil takes the hindmost." With that in mind,...

Bad blood between two men, and that feud's ultimate climax...Frank Hooker owns The Sacred Dog, the only bar in a New England hill town, where the locals gather to drink beer, gab, and get away from their families. The only one not welcome is...

An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan. Featuring bestselling authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid. OVER TWENTY CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE...

Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control, when a man from the past appears and a shady trio take over the adventure park's equipment supply company ... Things are messier than ever in the absurdly funny, heart-stoppingly tense second instalment in Antti Tuomainen's...

I'm Detective Lucien Kane, and usually, being a vampire with a supernatural gift has its perks. I'd kept my identity a secret for decades; only now, my best friend, Officer Theodore Ballard, and partner, Quinn Hastings, know what I am. I hadn't been able...

Styrsö was such a beautiful and usually very peaceful place. Whoever set foot on the island would quickly fall in love; some would stay forever. That peace had been brutally disturbed by the police presence. Would people ever forget? Forgive?A successful PR executive living...

Cambodia, a country with so many shadows in its past.Now, there are new shadows. A killer is on the loose, and he's leaving no clues. It's enough to draw journalist Dave Bell back to Cambodia after a plea from an old friend.Bell puts together...

Cambodia, a country with so many shadows in its past.Now, there are new shadows. A killer is on the loose, and he's leaving no clues. It's enough to draw journalist Dave Bell back to Cambodia after a plea from an old friend.Bell puts together...

Cambodia, a country with so many shadows in its past.Now, there are new shadows. A killer is on the loose, and he's leaving no clues. It's enough to draw journalist Dave Bell back to Cambodia after a plea from an old friend.Bell puts together...

Cambodia, a country with so many shadows in its past.Now, there are new shadows. A killer is on the loose, and he's leaving no clues. It's enough to draw journalist Dave Bell back to Cambodia after a plea from an old friend.Bell puts together...

Thomas Hawk is a gifted young man hardened by misfortune and circumstance, looking for a clean slate and a fresh start. He finds that and more, as he embarks on a career in law enforcement and is quickly drawn into a web of conspiracy,...

Desert stillness meets the cacophony of Las Vegas. Norman "Fats" Rangle, an ex-deputy sheriff, operates a horse stabling and excursion business with his brother and sister-in-law on their family ranch in the small rural community of Blue Lake, a few hours outside of Las...

Everything was fine for P.I. Richard Cole, until the murder of soul music singer Bobby Clarke and a mysterious statue called The Obelisk brought some strange things to the town of Odarko.Strange things appear from TV screens at random and people vanish without warning....

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel of the Year* How do you solve a murder when you don't have a clue? Frankie Boyle's gripping crime debut novel, Meantime, is a hallucinogenic ride through Glasgow as one man...

"Not Tonight, My Love" is a classic "noir" novel opening about 20 years ago in New York City, where Francesco "Frankie Boy" Franzini suffers a personal tragedy and exacts revenge. The person who wronged him was Fabio, the son of crime family boss Marcelo...

Jeff Chaussier's story centers on his native city and the woman he loves. It has been a fraught journey. In this, the fifth chapter in their saga, Jeff and Bryna have returned from Europe for their long-delayed wedding, but her Italian captivity hangs heavily...

Barlow's metaphysical noir The City, Awake is a novel of chemically induced amnesia, doppelg ngers, fanatics, and killers. Saul, a man without a history, awakes in a hotel room with a note in his pocket. Hunting for answers, he must survive rival assassins, a...

New Mystery by Edgar-Nominated Author In 1921, young jazz pianist Eve Riser witnesses the accidental killing of a bootlegger. To cover up the crime, she agrees to deliver a letter to a man named Rudy Hardy in Chicago. But when Eve gets to Chicago...

Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces--greed and corruption, ambition and desire--run out of control in the wake of a serial...

Two children need former car thief turned amateur sleuth and Child Protective Officer Foggy Moscowitz's help in this latest noir mystery set in Florida. Foggy Moscowitz is shocked when ID found on a body in the bay suggests it's his close Brooklyn friend, Pan...

Summoned to identify the trussed-up, naked body of a woman found amongst a pile of garbage on Blue Avenue, Florida businessman William Byrd recognizes the victim as Belinda Mabry, the girl with whom he spent a passionate summer 25 years before. Determined to find...

It all starts when a twenty-something software programming genius is visited while he sleeps by a mysterious figure referred to as the Troll. "We're going to change the world," the Troll tells the narrator. Soon we're introduced to an assortment of off-beat characters: a...

"Who's Yorkie Goodman?" asks Wallace, an enforcer for an East Coast drug cartel. "Just a fella" says his boss, who goes by the name Boss. Just a fella ... but Boss wants Yorkie Goodman taken out. He wants it so badly, he'll risk sending...

Beautiful, sexy Juliette is madly in love with Punch. She'll do absolutely anything for him. She also loves getting buck-naked on dark Key West byways and flashing strangers by moonlight. Punch loves Juliette ... sort of. He loves even more the booze he drinks...

A Girl. A Private Eye. A World of HurtPrivate Investigator Fuzzy Koella likes working the infidelity trade in Myrtle Beach. Taking pictures of cheating spouses provides enough income to support his spartan existence.But when an old friend hires him to peep on the seductive,...

A lawyer, an ex-con, and his nephew team up to solve a grisly murder in this explosive crime novel by internationally bestselling Swedish author Jens Lapidus. When a house alarm goes off in V rmd , an island in Stockholm's archipelago, a security guard...

Some days, you could just kill your boss. Guess what? The feeling is mutual in the next thriller by the acclaimed author of The Wheelman and The Blonde.Jamie DeBroux's boss has called a special meeting for all "key personnel" at 9:00 a.m. on a...

Gary Chance is an ex-Australian army driver and nightclub bouncer turned professional thief and in need of a job. An offer comes from a former employer, once notorious Melbourne social identity, now aging owner of a failing S&M club, Vera Leigh. A shadowy real...

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 importantly, intelligence and context were...