Fiction - Noir

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...

Micah "Slow Bear" Cross returns in another breathless slice of pitch-perfect pulp from noir legend Anthony Neil Smith.After successfully faking his own death, we catch up with Micah "Slow Bear" Cross standing in a field in Nebraska with his boot on the neck of...

The allies have carved up the former empire of the short-lived, thousand-year Reich. Fractured post-war Berlin is a city crawling with spies and foreign agents. The police department is being run like a corrupt puppet of its Soviet masters. Decorated intelligence agent Bill Hoffmann...

The allies have carved up the former empire of the short-lived, thousand-year Reich. Fractured post-war Berlin is a city crawling with spies and foreign agents. The police department is being run like a corrupt puppet of its Soviet masters. Decorated intelligence agent Bill Hoffmann...

In the city of Rigid Creek, ugly things have come to blot out the light. Corporal Joshua Marks struggles with his place life. A veteran officer and respected leader, he's reached the end of his tenure. Widowed, months from retirement, called to the priesthood....

Years after his unceremonious firing from the National Police for an act of heroic insubordination recounted in The Sky Weeps for Me, (2020), Inspector Dolores Morales -- scraping by as a private investigator -- finds himself summoned before a powerful Nicaraguan oligarch, Miguel Soto,...

A retired ambassador's life is in Andy Roark's hands in this explosive, fast-paced mystery featuring the Vietnam veteran turned private investigator. "Page-turning . . . the balance of plot and character is perfect" Publishers Weekly Starred Review"Roark is genuinely likeable (not too tough, but...

Introducing hardboiled PI Henry Gore, in this pitch-black noir novel set in 1950s revolutionary Cuba."Darkly atmospheric writing, an action-packed plot, plenty of suspense, and a sometimes-hapless hero caught between saving his own life and doing the right thing drive this outstanding, packs-a-punch thriller"- Booklist...

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor--an attractive married woman and mother--while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the...

As I clutched baby Chloe's blanket, tears streamed down my face as I remembered what happened the night she disappeared. Looking up at the apartment block I once called home, my mind was crowded with memories. David's words echoed in my head, telling me...

When a defeated looking man shows up at Moonlight's riverfront loft in the middle of the night seeking the P.I.'s services, he does something quite unexpected. He kills himself with a gunshot to the head. After the APD Chief Homicide Detective Nick Miller arrives...

Adelphos Mou (My Brother) is the story of an attempt to fix a football game by a downtrodden Greek-American gambler. To cover his marker with a violent Mafia family, he approaches his late father's old bookmaking partner, now with a son who has become...

One hour can change everything. For Evie Laythorne, those sixty minutes were the difference between life and death. She's the only person that really knows the truth about what happened at the top of the tower during that unexpected fall storm. If only walls...