Fiction - Noir

A dramatic saga with a noir bent set in the Sahara Desert WW2 North Africa -- Libya, Cairo, Algeria, TunisiaWe Can't All Be HeroesLibya, the Fezzan 1942A German officer collaborates with a French Algerian priest and a Jewish Resistance leader to safeguard his munitions...

Train is an 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose...

'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham 'Funny, very tough and full of action' Patricia Highsmith 'Uncoils with wit and imagination'Time Out It seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job...

"Intense....A higher caliber of entertainment."--New York TimesElmore Leonard's Glitz is a killer...in the best possible way. "The King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama's boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A...

Two GirlsA Whitewater Rafting TownAnd A Serial Killer Who Is Just Getting His Feet WetEmmy has always been impulsive. She is no longer a minor and has aged out of foster care. When her best friend, Amber, is the target of a perverted uncle...

"Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips's riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for a friend--perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos. LOS ANGELES, 1963: African...

"Portland Noir" is Book Four in the Maine Murder Mysteries series. In this concluding saga, Detective Nadine McAfee has now partnered with Sam Rockland in two investigations: the kidnapping of a U.S. senator's daughter by a right-wing militia group, and the tragic results that...

When a dying millionaire hires Lucius Anoraq to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Anoraq finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.Author: Stacy...

A place to dream another's dream; to live their life for a night. Such is the aim of Hel de R黐es and its owner, Mr. Steele.The ultimate elite club, Hel de R黐es is an experience for the rich and powerful only. But Steele wants...

A place to dream another's dream; to live their life for a night. Such is the aim of Hel de R黐es and its owner, Mr. Steele.The ultimate elite club, Hel de R黐es is an experience for the rich and powerful only. But Steele wants...

A place to dream another's dream; to live their life for a night. Such is the aim of Hel de R黐es and its owner, Mr. Steele.The ultimate elite club, Hel de R黐es is an experience for the rich and powerful only. But Steele wants...

A place to dream another's dream; to live their life for a night. Such is the aim of Hel de R黐es and its owner, Mr. Steele.The ultimate elite club, Hel de R黐es is an experience for the rich and powerful only. But Steele wants...

A place to dream another's dream; to live their life for a night. Such is the aim of Hel de R黐es and its owner, Mr. Steele.The ultimate elite club, Hel de R黐es is an experience for the rich and powerful only. But Steele wants...

"Delightfully twisty and chilling all at once -- murder mysteries are rarely this fun." --Jonathan Whitelaw, The Sun Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered--savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his...

In a world that has changed much during the six years he's been in prison, Ronnie Harrison struggles to piece together a new life from the wreckage of his old one. As a condition of his early parole, Ronnie must stay at a halfway-house...

La serie Noir ha hecho una marca fuerte en el Caribe con Havana Noir, Kingston Noir, Haiti Noir, y Trinidad Noir. Este volumen muestra el hecho de que la isla del Puerto Rico no es totalmente playas arenosas y hoteles extravagantes. Mayra Santos-Febres es...

Gazing out into the glowing curtain of evening summer rain, his body floods with fear as a cold hand clamps over his mouth. He doesn't even have a chance to scream as he is pulled down into the dark. When actor Majid Rahman's body...

Two immortal brothers crisscross the American Southwest to elude a murderous biker gang and protect a young woman in this "utter triumph and delight" from award-winning author Richard Lange (Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll). Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar,...

My name was Eden Moretti. After being betrayed by those I'd trusted, my life spiraled out of control. I lost my innocence and dreams in one fell swoop. Now, I'm a junkie dancer who will do just about anything to earn a buck or...

Obsession, paranoia and jealousy thrive when men are driven apart from their women by their occupation, and fleeting moments with other women in foreign ports fail to substitute for trips home, and bring only depression, grief and danger.Author: Captain William GilbertISBN-10: 8680950262ISBN-13: 9798680950265Publisher: Independently...

★★ Now available in large print. ★★A killer. His son. And a body hidden for twenty years.Peter Wilson has a career, a girlfriend, and a lifetime of opportunity ahead of him. It all unravels the moment the F.B.I. show up on his doorstep with...

Three targets left. Kill them. Kill all of them.David Bishop had a past before his time as a Special Forces Marine, but he has little memory of it. Now an assassin for a clandestine agency run by a ruthless woman known as The Director,...

Ira Wakely has not been heard from by anyone in Oak Valley since the previous fall. Without any clue as to where he went, his new friends begin to think they'll never see him again. All that changes when Susan Jushaway finds herself pursued...

Oak Valley U.S.A is a quiet town until the day when a series of murders start happening. All of them appear unrelated and even coincidental. However, the one thing they all have in common is a reporter for the local newspaper, Ira Wakely. He...

Morrissey Jarrett is fresh out of prison and back on the streets of his hometown Cardiff.During his enforced absence the city has been re-developed to within an inch of its life and a disoriented Morrissey falls back into old habits as he scams, schemes,...

The New York seventies murder that gave birth to a song ... She was a beautiful young singer-songwriter with a dream, but she ended up dead on a Madison Avenue sidewalk, a gun in her hand. Just another New York mugging - except she...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Don't get me wrong, but work is a four letter word.No matter how hard you try to avoid it, it is unavoidable."Joey Truman manifests a bizarro literary sitcom as sexy romp as meditation on being trapped in the working class with no way out."...

She barely survived the last round. As the Red Dog Gang closes in on her Family, can she survive the next?After the devastating events of our last chapter, all private eye and mafia wife Jacqueline Spadros wants is to get her life back.Then a...

The unofficial book of 2020. James Calemine's The Road to Hell is a collection of fictional short stories illustrated with Calemine's haunting photographs. These gritty stories deal with mass shootings, hurricanes, social media addiction, power grids, corruption, gambling, a criminal liar, toxic water, graveyard...

WHERE DOES A HIT MAN DRAW THE LINE? With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But...

"Santos-Febres and 13 other contributors of Puerto Rican heritage take full advantage of San Juan's wide range of disparities between rich and poor, weak and powerful, tourists and residents, in this fine addition to Akashic's noir anthology series." (Publishers Weekly) "A welcomed addition to...

After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. But in this gripping crime novel that upends the genre's conventions, strange events unravel what he thought he knew of his past, his present, and himself. When...

The Korean War rages on in this thrilling alternate history sequel to Beat the Devils: Morris Baker, now a private investigator, must solve a missing persons case in the midst of an endless battle. December, 1959: The Korean War rages on. Protesting the bloody...

Noir in the mile high city! Just like Denver's housing market, the city's crime-writing scene appears to be blowing up, and these stories function as a fascinating guide to the trials and tribulations of a rapidly changing city. (CrimeReads, a Most Anticipated Crime Fiction...

"Blending hard-boiled noir and romance into a compelling historical tale, Looking for Garbo is filled with heart and action." --Foreword Reviews James Main has a film to make. Seth Moseley has a story to tell. Neither have any idea how looking for Garbo would...

If you're going to be murdered in San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.San Francisco. August 1966. The Beatles haven't arrived yet to play their show at Candlestick Park, but Inspectors Henry Nash and Ross Belcher of the San Francisco...

August 1966: The puzzling murder of a local musician with connections to the Beatles leads SFPD inspectors Henry Nash and Ross Belcher to investigate bike gang members, rock musicians, proto-hippies, beatniks, and maybe the Beatles themselves.Author: Roy ChaneyISBN-10: 1737540606ISBN-13: 9781737540601Publisher: Roy ChaneyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2022Pages:...

A cop at the tail end of his career goes on the hunt when an unplanned kidnapping hits close to home...Officer Sean Coyle's making one last run working the streets at a time when his friends are trading in their badges for fishing poles....

Last Chance/First Chance. Lucky Lantz may be at the end of his rope, but he's swinging that rope as hard as he can. Returning to his hometown after a long recovery in a sanitarium for TB, he has one last chance to step away...

Jesse James Kennedy's second novel, Tijuana Mean, continues the saga of the ruthless drug-dealing McCray clan. The American Library Association's Booklist has delivered a glowing preview: "Mean as ever . . . stepping over the bodies-a lot of them. . . . Kennedy's involvement...

This is the 2nd book in a series of PULP NOIR.Mystery, Thrillers, And Pulp-Noir Fantasy. The rich history of Pulp stories are pure Americana. Written like a script from Film Noir movie, you are to be transported to a time in the 30's, 40's...

Lambda Literary Award-winning author returns with a stunning mystery proving that Noir is the new black. A golden city of prosperity, energy, the exciting engine of the American Dream. Just underneath, though, is a dark city, with darker ambitions. This is the world of...

A compelling and compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel that follows a hard-drinking PI accused of a murder he didn't commit--or did he? Eddie King wakes up one morning with a splitting headache to find two cops in his room, who...

"A thoroughly entertaining, spring-loaded tale of one man's lethal remedy for middle-age boredom."-Kirkus Starred ReviewNamed to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2020.Professor Daniel Waite is in a funk. He has a brilliant wife, tenure at the fabled University, and is well liked by colleagues...

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 16-18...