Fiction - Noir

Bacardi and Coke. Neat.Not the usual drink of choice for a mountain dwarf. Then again, Detective Sirgrus Blackmane is no ordinary dwarf-at least not since the Great War. Being a gumshoe during Prohibition might appear glamorous, with secret speakeasies, all-night cocktail parties, and scantily...

The story of Frank Ross, a journalist who is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison where he forms a friendship with a notorious gangster named 'Hood' Stacey, who helps him escape.Long out of print, this is the first new edition of this...

"I gather Foster has found something disagreeable in the motor car."1926. Norman Threlfall, a young naval lieutenant, aide to the Governor of The St Edward Islands, is attempting to explain to the Governor's wife that a headless torso (male) has been found in the...

In a metropolis engulfed by shadows, Jack Harper, a former detective haunted by their own past, becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that stretches to the highest echelons of power. Jack's path intertwines with a diverse cast of characters, each carrying their own secrets and...

Bacardi and Coke. Neat.Not the usual drink of choice for a mountain dwarf. Then again, Detective Sirgrus Blackmane is no ordinary dwarf-at least not since the Great War. Being a gumshoe during Prohibition might appear glamorous, with secret speakeasies, all-night cocktail parties, and scantily...

2028, eight years after a pandemic swept across Europe, the virus has been defeated and normal life has resumed. Memories of The Lockdown have already become clouded by myths, rumour and conspiracy. Books have been written, movies have been released and the names Robertson,...

As the world crumbles under the weight of war, political turmoil, and environmental devastation, humanity finds refuge in Verisim-a digital sanctuary offering a serene escape from reality. Within this virtual paradise, Dylan McKnight, a former real-world cop turned virtual homicide detective, navigates a society...

You realize you've kidnapped a baby . . . And you're the good guyYou thought you knew the story of Ken McElroy and Skidmore, MOThe world or your family. ChooseYou've spent your life not getting involved, but now you're faking it for your life...

Edge, a shadow organization made up of the most powerful figures in Galway society, exists to rid the city of criminals and abusers who have evaded the law. Long wary of the organization, the Vatican is not pleased when rumors start swirling that one...

THEY THOUGHT SHE'D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she'd been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But...

A genre-bending noir, and perhaps the squiddiest novel ever written, False Bodies creates a horror/thriller blend of the renowned Newfoundland culture seen in shows like Come From Away with the heart-pounding tension and creeping fear of Alien. False Bodies follows monster hunter Eddie "The...

He followed her home ... and she let him in Tanith Fellows is battling to cope with the death of her younger brother and, as a result, she's been taking more sleeping tablets than she probably should in order to ensure escape when she...

An adventure, noir, historical, Australiana feature set in 1940's Tasmania; Geraldine Barker diverges from a courier run in search of the elusive Tasmanian Tiger and finds herself stranded in the remote township of Maydena! Author: Angie SpiceISBN-10: 0645830003ISBN-13: 9780645830002Publisher: Angie SpiceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2023Pages: 90Format:...

A dead girl is found under a dumpster. Is this just a dump site, or is there something more symbolic at play? Can the case get solved before more bodies start piling up? Max Denver knows a working girl when he sees one, but...

Plagued by death on his conscience, Happy Doll has committed himself to a simple, spiritual life; that is, until a tragic and brutal murder forces his hand and sets him back on the bloody path of retribution and justice. After narrowly escaping with his...

Denver, 1942 -While most of the country is anxious that the United States could soon be pulled into the growing conflict overseas, Charlie Salardino has no such concerns. As the unchallenged head of organized crime in the Rocky Mountains, life is good for Salardino.Backed...

"A treasure chest of resources for any noir author seeking a more gruesome approach or a more relentless destruction of the soul. One might hope the real Paris suburbs are not so dark and blood drenched. But by the end of the collection, that...

A few short weeks after the horror of 9/11 Michael Davenport, an English journalist employed by the occult magazine Enigma, returns to America for the first time since nearly losing his life in the seamy drug wars of Ciudad Juarez to investigate an obscure...

An American literary take on the Nordic noir genre Unfolding during the moody Pacific Northwest winter of 1951, we follow Bernadette Baston, scholar of child development and language acquisition, as she travels to a penitentiary on the remote island Elita in the Puget Sound...

Who is murdering the young students that attend Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita Preparatory School? As the bodies mysteriously build up shock and scandal erupt on the grounds of a private parochial school affiliated with the neighboring church and convent that serve and inspire the...

Walk the dark halls and threatening streets of 1920s Asheville in this thrilling third installment of The Stephen Robbins Chronicles, as fan-favorite Robbins confronts the dangerous contrast between appearance and reality at the exclusive Grove Park Inn.It's the autumn of 1924, and Benjamin Loftis...

The gripping new thriller in Peter Guttridge's highly acclaimed Brighton series.The truth will out.Thriller writer Victor Tempest is dead and his son, the disgraced ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts, is discovering what really happened in the unsolved Brighton Trunk Murder of 1934. At the same...

From the modern master of Nordic suspense comes an explosive novel about a community in crisis and two brothers on the verge of losing everything they've worked so hard to achieve. By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves....

An unmissable psychological thriller from bestselling author J.A. Baker.When Phoebe and her disabled husband, Martyn, move into a new house in a quiet village, they plan to lead a quiet existence, to keep themselves to themselves. It's safer that way.But their new neighbour Anna...

Author: Elizabeth BrundageISBN-10: 1549137522ISBN-13: 9781549137525Publisher: Little Brown and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2021Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.70h x 5.80w x 1.10d

In the glamorous big-money world of horse shows in the 1960s, two brothers are riding high. Morgan Caine is a war hero, a respected businessman. His older brother Cyrus learned his craft in the prison yard and the mean streets of Chicago's West Side....

Set in London in the recent, but now distant-seeming past, this noir thriller takes us into some dark places. As preoccupied with sex and violence as a Greek tragedy, it's also in a traditional of political satire taking in Hogarth, Swift and Orwell. At...

Author: Dane BahrISBN-10: 1640096965ISBN-13: 9781640096967Publisher: Counterpoint LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs

Be careful what you wish for. After eleven years trapped in the Spadros crime syndicate, 23-year-old private eye Jacqueline Spadros is an independent woman, free to run her investigation business. But her problems are only beginning.Deeply in debt, Jacqui is in danger from both...

The Amber Waves of Autumn is the third installment in Kelp Journal's bestselling and award-winning beach noir series. In each collection, we include some of the biggest heavyweights in the game with the brightest emerging writers to provide our readers with deft, thrilling, and...

People should know. Between pandemics and before the Apocalypse, people should find out. Why would beautiful, intelligent women pay upwards of $1,200 to spend a night with the cover-illustrated clown gigolo, self-described as "just a skinny guy with a big dick"? Who are these...

The low life dreaming of the high life. Underdogs desperate for the limelight. Small time criminals and full-time gangsters.They all collide in 'Stray Dog Blues', Paul D. Brazill's addictive short story collection that looks at life from the gutter, but looking at the stars.Author:...

Not much could drag Jim Booker out of a peaceful, if lonely, retirement and back to late nights, crime scenes, and chases.Jim Booker is done with detective work and would just like to enjoy a cup of coffee on a sunny day. But when...

Set in a small Pennsylvania Steel town in 1959, STEELTON IRON IN THE FIRE is the second in the series. The long national steel industry strike puts the heat and pressure on the ambitious executives of Bethlehem Steel. A thriving local crime ring, lead...

Best Crime Novel of the Year--Joy Ride through the Tattoo Underworld of Portland's Old Town. The night world of Old Town, Portland, Oregon, has gone mad in the grip of gentrification, and at the center of it all is Lucky Supreme, a seedy tattoo...

"Trinidad Noir: The Classics asks readers to reconsider the postcolonial condition in the fifty-five years after independence." --SX Salon "Each story is magnetic." --New York Journal of BooksAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each...

If you are reading this, then I am dead. The Special Dead is a suspenseful forensic thriller, the tenth in the Rhona MacLeod series by Lin Anderson.Author: Lin AndersonISBN-10: 1529000688ISBN-13: 9781529000689Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2019Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.00d

Author: James M. WatjenISBN-10: 1649050143ISBN-13: 9781649050144Publisher: Nightmare PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2024Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.24d

A paroled killer and a small-town cop find themselves on a collision course when the murder-by-arson of a college student sparks off gang violence along the forty-ninth parallel. His first day out of prison, paroled killer Cameron Shaw meets with a mysterious lawyer who...

Simon Pennington Paris Sleuth is hired by Mrs. Duchesney to find her favorite author, Jamie Litton, a reclusive mystery writer whose best friend Ben Foulof is a spy on the run. Her assignment was meant to be a fun, harmless adventure for the summer,...

"When you hear things in the dark silence of the night, you know what it means-- they are watching you. The moment you are vulnerable, that's when they will strike. Why, you ask? Because you are alive. From the author of the bestselling Ghosts...

While Detective Rebecca Watson wrestles with the possibility that her mother may get away with murder, she responds to the murder-suicide of a family of five and soon discovers they had been in the Witness Protection Program. This greatly complicates her investigation.Then a few...

After suffering a lifetime of tyranny under her father's oppressive rule, when Lou-Lou sees a chance to make a break with the man she loves, she takes it. Problem is, daddy's also known as Big Bobby Joe, a dangerous and powerful man in the...

Author: Tom SchreckISBN-10: 1643963694ISBN-13: 9781643963693Publisher: Down & Out BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2024Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d

Author: Patricia LoofbourrowISBN-10: 1944223657ISBN-13: 9781944223656Publisher: Red Dog Press, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 858Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.27lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 2.06dLarge Print

THE OTHER WOMAN"It was a phone call that started the whole thing."Real estate agent Neil Cowan gets a call from the city's biggest developer, John Cameron Royal. He's interested in forty acres of land on a local lake that Neil has listed. He wants...

Nolan works customer service. He's the last employee of video game developer Nitrox, and the last person anywhere to understand the game Camopede. Nobody's called him for help in years--but the legal small print means he's still got to be available. So there he...

Glenn Helka's business has never been what you'd call lucrative. But chasing bond jumpers and following cheating spouses pays the bills. Most of the bills. Some of the time. Occasionally. When a woman drops a fat stack of cash on his desk to bring...

Walk the dark halls and threatening streets of 1920s Asheville in this thrilling third installment of The Stephen Robbins Chronicles, as fan-favorite Robbins confronts the dangerous contrast between appearance and reality at the exclusive Grove Park Inn.It's the autumn of 1924, and Benjamin Loftis...

The first Angel Dare novel, MONEY SHOT, earned universal acclaim: finalist for the Edgar, Anthony and Barry Awards, won the Crimespree Award and chosen by fans as their favorite Hard Case Crime title of all time. Angel's story continued in CHOKE HOLD and -...