Fiction - Noir

An electrifying story about the explosive power of secrets, from a celebrated Chinese novelist A thrilling journey through China's dark criminal underworld, from a celebrated voice in Chinese literature When Hongyang is found dead after a night of debauched drinking, it looks as if...

When the body of a naked man is found in the middle of a barren field, a rural community is left in shock - and fear.Discovering that someone is offering money in return for information about the dead man and anyone connected to him,...

"If Jack Reacher were a woman, he'd be Charlie Fox." Lee Child"Find Sean Meyer and stop him. By whatever means necessary."Former Special Forces soldier-turned-bodyguard Charlotte 'Charlie' Fox will never forget the men who put a brutal end to her military career, but she vowed...

Her name is Renee Blackbear, but what most people call the nineteen-year-old Ojibwe woman is Cash.She lived all her life in Fargo, sister city to Minnesota's Moorhead, just downriver from the Cities. She has one friend, the sheriff Wheaton. He pulled her from her...

He stole her childhood. Can she escape before he takes her life? Emily longs to be an artist. Her dream comes true when her new stepfather, a rich painter, begins mentoring her. But she's shocked to discover his dark side, and fear sends her...

Amateur sleuth and Child Protective Officer Foggy Moscowitz must find a missing girl with a special gift in this latest noir mystery set in Florida. Florida, 1976. Foggy Moscowitz knows he's having a bad night when he wakes to find a gun pressed to...

End Game. Harry Starke Book 16The game's afoot, only Harry has no idea... Not yet anyway.It seems his enemies are endless, and his career and life are always at stake. This time, though, he may not make it out unscathed.Has Harry's past finally caught...

Just as his partner Sandra is due to give birth, D.C.I. Alex Warren is sent to lead a difficult and sensitive investigation.Why has a young Asian girl been sexually assaulted and murdered in the home she shares with her Scottish boyfriend? Families are brought...

Henry Blackwell assists the Philadelphia police with psychological profiles of dangerous criminals, but Blackwell's own wife was brutally murdered, and the crime went unsolved. Since her death, Blackwell has gone on a bender and suffers periodic blackouts. Detectives Jimmy Slomann and Dave Busch investigate...

KL NOIR: MAGIC marks the resurrection of the notorious KL Noir series. The editor Deric Ee selects 20 original stories that bring you through the crimes and tribulations of life in Kuala Lumpur. There will be a bar hostess with a secret, a crisis...

What to do when your fictional sleuth refuses to die? A detective writer's attempts at writing his masterpiece. A very successful detective fiction writer, Leo Basilius, decides to bring his popular crime series to a close and take a sabbatical on the Greek island...

Abril Hart wants nothing more than to live a peaceful life with her family in Chicago. Unfortunately, Abril's father's family business gives her no room to do so. As a career arsonist, Abril decides she may never win her peace. Abril has no choice,...

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...

Charlie and Rose are back in their much-anticipated new adventure. Charlie's step-daughter lies dying on a beach. She needs help. Some serious help. But how did she get there and what can on earth can a dead guy and his dead dog do? Plenty...

Old-Time Mountain Song There's a place in Tennessee, just across the line, No one ever goes up there, it's too rough a climb, You won't find the name or place wrote on any map, Folks down here 'round Shelton's Trace calls it White Oak...

It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone -- a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress -- wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day,...

A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago--a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better--by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross.Mike Hodge--veteran of the Great War, big shot...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - A special edition of this coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Featuring an...

In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up, as Kerouac himself did, in the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouch hat, and insinuating leer,...

In Alex Bledsoe's Wake of the Bloody Angel, a stand-alone fantasy mystery, sword-wielding private eye Eddie LaCrosse tracks down a notorious pirate while solving the mystery of abandoned ghost ships. Twenty years ago, a barmaid in a harbor town fell for a young sailor...

It's Mardi Gras in 1958 New Orleans, and Alex Moreau wants revenge. He doesn't want it. He needs it. He needs it for the death of his mother at his gangster father's hands. He needs it for the half-imprisoned life to which his father's...

In 1940's Chicago, when insurance salesman Elliot Blake calls at the home of fight promoter Walt Winkler to sell him a new insurance policy, it's handsome boxer Vito who comes to the door. Vito wants something from Elliot, but it's not car insurance. In...

Part 1970s childhood dreamscape, part Raymond Chandler, this is a world both familiar and transformed. Sex shops, illicit affairs, spies, political hypocrisy, and dangerous zealots may coexist with Barbie and Ken's acrobatic poolside sex, but the crises of faith that Nelly Reifler's characters face...

Tormented, rebellious police detective Victor Lessard races to track down a ruthless killer in Montreal."Martin Michaud is a master at twisty storytelling and compelling atmosphere." -- Catherine McKenzie"Never Forget is a crackerjack read." -- Quill & Quire"A raucous crime thriller." -- Publishers WeeklyWhen a...

This powerful sequel to Kelli Stanley's scorching City of Dragons, which introduced unique and unforgettable series heroine Miranda Corbie, begins on May 25th, 1940, opening day for the World's Fair. When a woman is found dead, private investigator Miranda Corbie is soon hot on...

A highly entertaining heist thriller that combines "the intense grit of Richard Stark's Parker series with the amorality of Jim Thompson's work" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) A phone call brought Wilson and nine other men to a job in New York. At first, he...

Book Two in the Denver Moon SeriesSix months have passed since Denver Moon, P.I., smashed The Minds of Mars into the red planet, destroying the ship's horrific cargo and delaying the alien danger of human mind control. Now, in the dark underbelly of Mars...

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin...

In this masterful work of neo-noir, William Boyle expertly captures the grit and desperation of a neighborhood in flux, and spotlights the neighbors who find themselves caught up in the crimes of the past. It's been sixteen years since "Ray Boy" Calabrese's actions led...

When a brash and beautiful American newspaper reporter, Lily Nordby, falls into a forbidden love affair with Tokido Okamura, a sophisticated Japanese diplomat whom she suspects is a spy, at the Golden Gate International Exposition, a brilliant Mayan art scholar, Woodrow Packard, tries to...

Jewish Noir is a unique collection of new stories by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Marge Piercy, Harlan Ellison, S.J. Rozan, Nancy Richler, Moe Prager (Reed Farrel Coleman), Wendy Hornsby, Charles Ardai, and Kenneth Wishnia. The...

Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-centric noir collection featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, and more.Livia Llewellyn's "One of These Nights" has won the Edgar Award for Best Short Story, presented by the Mystery...

"Crimes of passion, politics, and perversity pervade the 14 selections in Akashic's noir volume devoted to Buenos Aires, where the grim past of the dirty war and present tumult provide a rich backdrop . . . Literary visitors may want to seek out longer...

To travel through the nineteen works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens. The writings are grouped into four historically significant periods ('Leaving Colonialism, ' 'Facing Independence, ' 'Looking In, ' and 'Losing...

"Even Providence's signature public art has a dark side in Providence Noir (Akashic), which includes a story called WaterFire's Smell Tonight by Pablo Rodriguez. Each tale in this anthology edited by Ann Hood is set in a different part of the city. Pulitzer Prize...

The eighth Commissario Ricciardi historical mystery from the author of The Bottom of Your Heart "will surprise readers at every turn" (La Repubblica). In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Commissario Ricciardi feels unable to open himself up to life. He has refused...

"Puts a new twist on the Kennedy assassination . . . a] remarkable first novel . . . delights in sex, hypocrisy and political conspiracy" (The Washington Post). If you took James Ellroy at his most imaginative and Oliver Stone at his most conspiratorial,...

The final book in the Marseilles trilogy, following Chourmo, from "a talented writer who draws from the deep, dark well of noir (The Washington Post). Ex-cop, loner, Fabio Montale returns in this stunning conclusion to Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseilles trilogy. Italian Mafiosi are hunting journalist-activist...

Gregor Samsa wacht eines Morgens auf und stellt fest, dass er "zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt" wurde. Er h lt diese Verwandlung anfangs nur f r vor bergehend und stellt sich erst langsam den verschiedenen Konsequenzen seiner unfreiwilligen Metamorphose. Zun chst unf hig aufzustehen...

A Powell's Top Five Staff Pick of 2017 A Library Journal Top Fall Indie Fiction Pick The Nervous Breakdown Book Club Official Selection November 2017 A Spinetingler Magazine Best Books of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Recommended Read A Chicago Review of Books Recommended...

The early forties have been a tough time for Jack Chesley. His plane was shot down over Germany and he spent two years in a brutal POW camp. During that time, his wife fell in the tub and died. Prior to her death, the...

As an amateur PI with a bent moral compass, Ash McKenna is good at finding people--but not at staying out of trouble. Between his own violent tendencies, the shadow cast by his father's death, and a self-destructive revenge quest, he made a mess of...

Being a private investigator ain't all it's cracked up to be--especially when you spend most of your time looking for missing kids and trying not to get turned into something that goes bump in the night instead of making time with femme fatales. But...

From the author of The Rage: "A ripping crime tale, impressive in scope and crackling with energy . . . a fascinating portrait of contemporary Ireland" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). The Midnight Choir teems with moral dilemmas, and Dublin emerges as a city of...

The first suspense novel in English-translation by internationally acclaimed Uruguayan mystery writer Daniel Chavarria, Adios Muchachos is a dark, erotic, brutally funny romp through the sexual underworld and black-market boardrooms of post-Cold War Cuba. Seen through Chavarr?'s compassionate but uncompromising eyes, present-day Havana is...

You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block's new novel is not for everyone. It's recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman. And rapes...

Ryan Carpenter is an underground relocation specialist who helps people escape the danger and traumas of their life and start over. After agreeing to help the young wife of a Texas oil baron relocate her stepson to escape criminal prosecution, Ryan learns more than...

Kane Kulpa learned which laws could be bent and which broken after a short stint in prison courtesy of Detective Vincent Bayonne. Bound by time, integrity, and the reality of life in Central City, Bayonne and Kane made peace with the past. Now, gang...

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...

Belgrade, with all of its historical complexity, joins Zagreb and Prague in representing the Eastern European dimension of the Akashic Noir Series."Ivanovic's contributions are from Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, and Finnish writers--all admirably noirish."--Kirkus Reviews"History haunts Belgrade...An anthology that has its share of winners."--Publishers WeeklyIntensely...