Fiction - Noir

The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell--it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another person, dragged about...

Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature" (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina...

When The Princess of Burundi was published by Thomas Dunne Books, American critics hailed Kjell Eriksson as Sweden's Ed McBain, and they compared him to Henning Mankell. Now The Cruel Stars of the Night, the next in this internationally acclaimed crime series, unveils a...

New York Times Bestseller"Smart and funny and all sorts of raunchy in the best way." -- San Francisco ChronicleRepeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of San Francisco in this outrageous follow-up to his madcap novel Noir.San Francisco,...

A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill's southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy's eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell's Missouri Ozarks Crimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow into American literature in recent years....

A Borrowed Man: a new science fiction novel from Gene Wolfe, the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series. It is perhaps a hundred years in the future, our civilization is gone, and another is in place in North America, but...

Amidst a Weimar-era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for her affections who finds his...

From the bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer behind HBO's We Own This City: a "gripping, surprisingly soulful" mystery about an ex-offender who must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another path (Entertainment Weekly). Michael Hudson spends the...

In this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant--and faces danger around every corner. It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR TERRENCE MCCAULEY TAKES YOU BACK TO A TIME WHEN BOOZE WAS OUTLAWED AND CRIME RAN RAMPANT IN AN AUTHENTIC CRIME THRILLER.Manhattan - 1933Charlie Doherty may have been kicked off the force after The Grand Central Massacre, but thanks to a wealthy benefactor,...

A stubborn teenager and her estranged uncle descend into the Arkansas underworld to track down her missing fiancé, in a riveting literary noir perfect for fans of Daniel Woodrell and Mare of Easttown. Up until now, 18-year-old Lily Stevens has always been the perfect...

As much a classic detective story as it is a literary masterpiece, The Long-Legged Fly introduces us to Lew Griffin: tough, smart, and living in a corner of society where life is fought for as much as it is lived. In steamy New Orleans,...

A remarkable picture of contemporary Memphis emerges in this Akashic noir volume...Something for everyone.--Publishers Weekly Memphis Noir covers train cars and Beale Street, hoodoo and segregation, Nathan Bedford Forrest and, of course, Graceland, and even includes a graphic novella.--Memphis Flyer A collection of stories...

Eriksson adds a new twist to the Swedish crime story, one especially likely to appeal to Henning Mankell fans. --Booklist Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Novel, international sensation Kjell Eriksson has dazzled American audiences with his stunning thrillers. In this...

Growing up in the small town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Randy "Doc" Patterson didn't have it easy. Being raised in a violent and abusive household, Randy and his mother were constantly threatened with the cruel hands of his stepfather John. The wrath of his father...

In this superbly crafted DC noir, hard-drinking Nick Stefanos is hired to find a friend's missing wife -- if he doesn't hit rock bottom first. Nick Stefanos has given up his job in sales to tend bar at the Spot, where drinks and women...

The Animal Factory goes deep into San Quentin, a world of violence and paranoia, where territory and status are ever-changing and possibly fatal commodities. Ron Decker is a newbie, a drug dealer whose shot at a short two-year stint in the can is threatened...

Powerfully told, elegantly wrought, George P. Pelecanos's The Big Blowdown is a knockout. Washington DC, 1946. For Joey Recevo and Pete Karras, two kids from one of Washington's rougher neighborhoods, the easiest work to find after the War is all criminal---providing a little muscle...

In every police officer's career, lines must sometimes be crossed-finding one's way back is the hard part. WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Winter 2022 - Best Crime Fiction FINALIST: Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2022 - Fiction-Mystery-Murder Payden Beck's, and his partner Bryan Verrill's, first...

A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable, and is now reissued in a brand new deluxe edition with an introduction by Duane Swierczynski, an afterword by...

Transporting stories of intrigue, superstition and rivalry from a European master, in English for the first time In this stark, haunting collection, Mikl s B nffy narrates with wry wisdom stories of cunning, betrayal and myth ranging from classical antiquity to the Transylvania of...

In this intricate, intense mystery from the acclaimed "master of the Quebec thriller," the ghosts of Victor Lessard's past come back to haunt him as he investigates a horrific murder-suicide that doesn't add up.When a young Montreal family dies in an orgy of bloody...

Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award for Best First Novel In this "beautifully written, thoughtful page-turner" (Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists) from "the next big voice in crime fiction" (Susan Scarf Merrell, author of Shirley), two young women become...

Fifty thousand believers and photo-hungry tourists jam into Notre Dame Cathedral on August 15 to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. The next morning, a stunningly beautiful young woman clothed all in white kneels at prayer in a cathedral side chapel. But when an...

★★★★★ "A ᴘᴇʀꜰᴇᴄᴛ ꜰᴏʟʟᴏᴡ ᴜᴘ ᴛᴏ ʙᴏᴏᴋ ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ Bᴀᴇʀ Cʀᴇɪɢʜᴛᴏɴ sᴀɢᴀ..." Yᴏᴜ ᴡᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴘᴜᴛ ᴅᴏᴡɴ THE MUNDANE WORK OF VENGEANCE ᴜɴᴛɪʟ ʟᴏɴɢ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴜʀɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀsᴛ ᴘᴀɢᴇ.. Sɪx ᴅᴀʏs ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ Bᴀᴇʀ Cʀᴇɪɢʜᴛᴏɴ ᴄᴜᴛ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴀ ᴄᴀʙᴀʟ ᴏꜰ ᴅᴏɢꜰɪɢʜᴛᴇʀs, ᴀ sɪxᴛᴇᴇɴ-ʏᴇᴀʀ-ᴏʟᴅ ɢɪʀʟ...

★★★★★ "Stellar performance. Read this book " With Baer Creighton hidden inside a mountain, Stinky Joe survives the wild Flagstaff winter alone. But with first melt, he succumbs to warm broth and sleeping pills, placed at the doorstep of a scheming prostitute at the...

When eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren't the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a suicide. His...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. - "A haunting vision of disillusionment, twenty-first-century style" (People). Returning to Los Angeles from New...

Yᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇɴ'ᴛ ᴍᴇᴛ ᴛʜɪs Bᴀᴇʀ Cʀᴇɪɢʜᴛᴏɴ... Tʜᴇ ɢɪʀʟs ʏᴀᴍᴍᴇʀ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ᴛᴏ Cᴏʟᴏʀᴀᴅᴏ ᴀɴᴅ Bᴀᴇʀ's ʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ꜰᴏʀ ᴀ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ. Sᴛɪɴᴋʏ Jᴏᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴄᴜʀs. Bᴜᴛ ᴀ ʀᴀɴᴅᴏᴍ Rᴏᴄᴋʏ Mᴏᴜɴᴛᴀɪɴ sᴛᴏʀᴍ ᴄᴏᴍʙɪɴᴇs ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ sʟɪᴘᴘʏ ᴛʀᴀɴsᴍɪssɪᴏɴ ᴛᴏ ꜰᴏʀᴄᴇ Bᴀᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ sɪᴅᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴏᴀᴅ ᴛᴏ...

What if the perfect friend was hiding a deadly secret?When a championship jockey discovers the body of a young woman during a cold morning's training ride, the local racing community is shocked to its core.Everyone says she was the perfect friend, the perfect daughter...

"A racy and hard-to-put-down piece of neo-noir."--Washington Post A modern-day noir featuring a twisty cat-and-mouse chase, this dark debut thriller tells the story of a woman who makes a living taking down terrible men...then finds herself in over her head and with blood on...

"Each voice is different, each story providing its own appeal, its own approach to the nature of crime, and in most instances, what it means to live in a female body in a largely hostile world." --Brooklyn RailJoyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the...

"There's precious little comfort to be found in any of these Houston neighborhoods, most of which are set light-years away from the city's notoriously cushy new-money culture . . . Houston comes across as a haven of multiculturalism--though, as in all the 90-plus volumes...

When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a...

She wants your life - and she'll do anything to get it...Erica has always wanted to be exactly like her neighbour, Faye: beautiful, thin, and a mother. But Faye's life isn't as perfect as it seems - she has a terrible secret, and slowly...

The discovery of the near-mythical night parrot lures smugglers to the heart of the Australian outback. It falls to lone wildlife officer Ric Butler to investigate but when a malevolent boss repeatedly undermines his efforts Butler proves he isn't the kind of guy to...

"Ant is borderline obsessed with funerals, likening the events to weddings as gatherings he looks forward to. Yet, when a childhood friend passes, Ant's veneer starts to crumble. Weirdly funny, Whiteout Conditions tracks Ant and his friend Vince as they make their way through...

A driven art critic's plan to steal a painting leads to murder in this classic neo-noir novel by the author of the Hoke Moseley series.Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything--blackmail, burglary, and beyond--to make a name for...

"Atlanta has its share, maybe more than its share, of prosperity. But wealth is no safeguard against peril . . . Creepy as well as dark, grim in outlook . . . Hints of the supernatural may make these tales . . . appealing...

From Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and "principal heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West" (The Washington Post)--an intense psychological suspense novel about a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist who becomes sexually involved with a woman suffering from multiple personality...

--Derrick Harriell has received the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for his story, There's a Riot Goin' On, presented by the Mystery Writers of America."Luxuriate in the seedy, wallow in the angry and shiver at the horrors that surely await you around the corner...

Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and...

An impressive debut mystery novel from Edgar award nominated author Brian SilvermanLen Buonfiglio is a former New York bar owner and family man who has disappeared to a small island in the Caribbean. When a genial tour guide, Rawle "Big Tree" Johns is a...

Everyone in the village admires Anna because she's a wonderful mother. Juggling family life with a small sewing business, she's the one they turn to for a warm hug after a hard day. Her kind, polite daughters are a credit to her - even...

"My lungs began to burn as I started sprinting. It wasn't just that I wanted to catch Fritz. I had the distinct feeling that I was chasing him, that I had to catch up with him, before something caught up with me." How long...

Prudence Malkin is a reclusive accountant who leads a somewhat normal life in Portland, Maine where she immerses herself in her work. However, behind her placid and put-together front, she hides a dark and agonizing past. In spite of her efforts to suppress the...

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle's harrowing novel of modern decadence and despair, now available again in a new translation. A vitalist writer's portrait of modern existential malaise, exemplified in the life of a young drug addict, a man who can see through the emptiness of...

Jack Price and his Seven Demons, the most dangerous and feared assassins in the world, are taking on the bank heist of the century. Meet Jack Price and the Seven Demons: Doc, the evil mad scientist presently using Jack for sex; Rex, an explosives...

First in English for Manchette, renovator of French noir; trenchant social critique laced with black humor.Author: Jean-Patrick ManchetteISBN-10: 0872863956ISBN-13: 9780872863958Publisher: City Lights BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 185Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 7.30h x 5.02w x 0.41dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2002 pg. 146Publishers Weekly 02/18/2002 pg. 79Booklist 03/15/2002...

"Racial, religious, and class divides are acutely observed in the 14 new stories from Kenyan writers . . . Crime fiction fans will find much to savor." --Publishers WeeklyAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir....