Fiction - Noir

In the follow-up to One-Shot Harry, fearless crime photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram finds himself in the LAPD's crosshairs after capturing damning evidence of police brutality. An atmospheric dive into a city on the brink that's brimming with remarkable historical detail, Ash...

The BRAND NEW psychological thriller from BESTSELLER Amanda Brittany.A remote lakeside house. Six strangers with something to hide. Who's out for revenge? Who will survive?When Polly signs up to an art retreat in the Lake District, it's an escape from the stress of recent...

A discovered conspiracy. A ransom gone wrong. A two-month coma.Spoiled Iranian girl Neda awakes to find her parents dead-a tragic murder at the hands of her now-executed fianc?. But Neda saw the perpetrators, and he wasn't one of them.The justice system dismisses her. Evidence...

In the middle of the Atacama Desert there's a small lake that Chileans call The Eye of the Sea. Some say this lake is bottomless, and if you submerge the truth there, it will never be known. However, in the fullness of time, and...

I take a deep breath before I utter the words I'm terrified to say out loud. My therapist waits patiently for me to speak, but nothing could prepare her for what I tell her next. 'I think I killed my best friend...' Three years...

The BRAND NEW psychological thriller from BESTSELLER Amanda Brittany.A remote lakeside house. Six strangers with something to hide. Who's out for revenge? Who will survive?When Polly signs up to an art retreat in the Lake District, it's an escape from the stress of recent...

In a nightmare scenario, Frank Townsend has an apparently minor accident on his way home but he arrives to find his wife gone and doesn't recognize his apartment. He had gone to work on a normal day but didn't return for more than three...

Frontenac is a corrupt city of vice, sin, and murder. On a rainy day (but what day isn't rainy in that industrial wasteland?) an underage prostitute and a rookie cop are murdered. No one cares. No one lifts a finger.Killebrew cares. Recently returned from...

NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Patricia Loofbourrow brings you ..."... a story that is almost irresistible." SciFi and ScaryA private eye. Four crime families. A scoundrel wants to destroy them.1899 years after the Catastrophe, Bridges is run by the Mob. As the...

"Elmore Leonard fans should be pleased." --Publishers Weekly "Darby Holland is a modern hero in the mod of Sam Spade and Marlow only with more tattoos and in steel-toed boots." --Ace Atkins, New York Times-bestselling author of Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn In this...

Danny didn't mean to kill Jerry. He didn't even want to fight him. But once Jerry gets a few drinks in him, he has to prove how tough he is. It had always been like that, ever since they were kids. Jerry had always...

Daphne is the beautiful daughter of the Pontescuro land owner and townsfolk employer. She lets herself be adored by the men, earning her the ire of the town's women. Then there is Ciaccio, the orphan close in age to her, whom she befriends. The...

I reach for my scotch glass. Empty. I slam it down and check my pockets. My hand fumbles with my pack of Woodbines. Damn. I need a ciggy, bad. I shake a smoke out and put it to my lips. I strike a match,...

A woman with dark circles under her eyes stands on your doorstep, clutching a little boy's hand. Your heart stops. You let her into your home once before, and it nearly cost you everything... When you first took Riley in as a teenager, you...

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...

Author: Phil LippertISBN-10: 1947893122ISBN-13: 9781947893122Publisher: Fresh Ink GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2021Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

Author: David GoodisISBN-13: 9798886011104Publisher: Stark House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2024Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

Author: Michael Loyd GrayISBN-10: 1958728292ISBN-13: 9781958728291Publisher: Blue Cedar PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2024Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Author: Van VoorhisISBN-10: 1959620576ISBN-13: 9781959620570Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2024Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d

In 1941, in the quaint Village of Worthington, Ohio, life seemed to be on the upswing after the dark days of the Great Depression. Elizabeth Russo, a 24-year-old elementary school teacher, finds herself at a crossroads, unsure of her path. Her roots run deep...

This book contains 12 original short stories that represent a number of subgenres within the broad field of crime and mystery fiction. From the humorous and explicitly comic to the dark and brooding, they vary in setting from early 21st-century Cincinnati to mid-18th-century London....

Stephen King's Joyland is now be available from Encore at a great low price! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and...

When the shadowy circumstances of a relative's death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement. The Pool sisters have gone into business together: a down-home if unequal...

At 17 years old, Jamie Lindsey has a bright future. Hardworking, respectful and determined, he looks set on getting the grades he needs to achieve his dream of studying medicine.But all that changes when he finds himself the victim of a shockingly spiteful false...

"Full of moral and political urgency . . . Excellent." --Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian In 1938 Paris, Pierre Pain, a lonely bachelor and a beleaguered mesmerist, receives a telegram from his friend Madame Reynaud. An acquaintance of hers lies in a hospital...

Del ganador del premio L'H confidencial, nos llega Habana réquiem, un thriller policiaco que nos arrastra por las calles de La Habana Vieja. Cuba se tensa en medio del panorama de recesión y el Estado intenta maniobrar con un falso aperturismo económico, pero la...

In the story titled "The Peak" two men battle climbing a mountain in a blizzard. Though the mountain is cold, and the peak is far. It is nothing compared to the chill ache caused by the frozen memory of a lost love. Then readers...

"The Romeo and Juliet of the South" are back in this new edition of the internationally best-selling Sailor and Lula novels, now including for the first time the culminating novel, The Up-Down, by American master Barry Gifford. "Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular--William...

The second novel from the critically acclaimed writer of Pike, which was nominated for France's prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière crime fiction award and "easily rivals Larry Brown's most renowned novels" (Spinetingler Magazine). In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Larry Brown comes...

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...