Fiction - Noir

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 -...

Winner, This Is Horror Award Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award A collection of 15 stories that feature, among others, zombies, a hardboiled detective, a giant space-traveling lobster, an enigmatic alien, Rod Serling, and numerous apocalypses. The first...

A team of con artists travel the country, marrying rich, unsought women, only to clean them out on their wedding night. The only problem is their last mark's father happens to be a secret underworld kingpin now bent on avenging his homely daughter's broken...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro comes a haunting true-crime novel about Winnie Ruth Judd, one of the twentieth century's most notorious and enigmatic killers.It's October 1931. When Winnie Ruth Judd arrives at the Los Angeles train station from Phoenix, her...

FEATURING BRAND NEW STORIES BY: Don Wallace, Stephanie Han, Christy Passion, Morgan Miryung McKinney, Alan Brennert, Lono Waiwai'ole, Kiana Davenport, Mindy Eun Soo Pennybacker, Scott Kikkawa, Tom Gammarino, B.A. Kobayashi, Michelle Cruz Skinner, and Chris McKinney.Two thousand miles away from the rest of the...

It's 1965, and cynical former private investigator Henry Gore just wants to drink his days away in corrupt, sun-soaked Santo Domingo - but life has other ideas in this novel of pitch-black noir, the sequel to the savage, gut-punch of a crime thriller, Havana...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro comes a haunting true-crime novel about Winnie Ruth Judd, one of the twentieth century's most notorious and enigmatic killers.It's October 1931. When Winnie Ruth Judd arrives at the Los Angeles train station from Phoenix, her...

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. Season Five...

A Tourist Trap Full of Crazy Monkeys . . . and Murder! Sure, Sparky's boss Bookie is a crook, but he's no murderer! Eleven-year-old, plucky amateur super-sleuth Sparky stops at nothing to convince the police that Bookie was framed for the murder at Monkey...

As she parades her traveling carnival from one town to another, Olga Muntz, a former professional wrestler, searches for an unspoiled playmate to feed the unsatiable lust of an aging playboy whose extremely generous payment will allow Olga to walk away from battles with...

Read the chilling and completely heartwrenching story of a mother's worst nightmare: her child being stolen--and what happens when he returns--from the author of The Family Across the Street. Six years ago Megan waits at the school gates for her six-year-old son, Daniel. As...

Miles Landry is trying to put violence behind him when he takes up work as a private detective focused on humdrum adultery cases. But when a Tibetan monk hires him to find a missing person, things get weird fast. Charged with tracking down the...

In the fast-paced, mystical SPANISH MOSS, a - fifteen-year-old Minnesota boy, Calvin, escapes an abusive father and hitchhikes through the South until, in attempt to flee a sexual predator, he causes a car crash that lands him in a Louisiana swamp. Rescued by a...