Noir Fiction

When wealthy industrialist Harold Thorndyke dies suddenly in his bed, it’s ruled a tragic heart attack—just another casualty of his failing health. But when private investigator Blake Lowry is hired by Harold’s sister, Margaret, to dig deeper, he discovers that the truth is anything but natural. What this the perfect murder? With the glamorous yet volatile ex-cabaret girl Lila Thorndyke, Harold’s much younger widow, at the centre of the scandal, Blake must navigate through a maze of lies and infidelity. From shadowy cabaret backrooms to high-society mansions, his search for answers ...

Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left—a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn—have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.

Retired from the force, Detective Superintendent Jeffrey Brandt goes native. He stabs a woman but holds back from killing her. Frustrated that no one takes any notice, he ups his game. Next time, he'll kill. Brandt fully knows how the police work. He'll use this knowledge to win a sick game; after all, he's chosen the rules. The crime scenes are spotless, Brandt's covered his tracks. There is no forensic evidence. Yet each killing has his unmistakable print. Faced with the challenge of discovering his identity is DCI Stella Johnson. She rises to Brandt's macabre challenge.

Wealthy American expat Glenn Murray Cohen, a former criminal defense lawyer, is celebrating his birthday in Bangkok for the thirteenth year in a row. It’s been four years since his last tangle with danger, when he and his NJA Club friends battled North Koreans and an American traitor. Since then, Glenn’s been stuck in a rut, managing the career of Phil Funston, Bangkok’s most talented guitarist and most obnoxious foreign resident. Glenn’s sense of honor won’t let him abandon Phil until he finds a replacement. His enigmatic friend, the General, offers to find one if Glenn will ...

Justice with a vengeance. Who controls Sydney Rye? Because that person controls a dangerous weapon - a killer and a symbol - proof of a prophet's divinity and the catalyst for an international vigilante network. Sydney Rye is just one woman, but to millions she is much more. Whoever controls Sydney controls the masses, can incite violence, turn wife against husband, daughter against father...release the wolf in us all. Who controls her, and what do they want?

A drizzly Manchester night, a hit and run. A chance meeting decades later leads ultimately to the exposure of a transatlantic crime family. Their story begins during the twenties New York prohibition era and follows its evolution into a modern-day underworld business.Jake Hughes and DI Jonty Ball threaten the empire and as a web of murder and deceit is exposed, the crime family bares its’ teeth, leading to an explosive finale where the winner takes all! Or do they?

Jim Thompson's classic The Grifters is one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for the critically acclaimed film by Stephen Frears and Martin Scorcese. To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.

Rhoda West is Silicon Valley’s favorite female CEO: the luminously charismatic founder of the fast-growing startup Radical, a wellness company whose core mission is the betterment of women’s lives. Rhoda’s Instagram page offers intimate glimpses of her personal life alongside promotions for the cult-status products developed in the Well, Radical’s secretive lab.

As the news of the international movie star's gruesome murder spreads, the world holds its breath in terror. Detective Botti of the Clearwater police department is tasked with finding the killer, but what seems like a routine investigation takes a dark turn when clues point to a well-known musician. As Botti delves deeper into the case, he finds himself drawn into a sinister web of deceit and betrayal. But the stakes are raised even higher when Botti discovers that the murder has ties to one of the largest Scientology churches in the city of Clearwater. With tensions running high and the ...

Four years as a Ranger, followed by three in prison, Nick Stallman just wants to be left alone to do his job as a bartender in a small town bar called The Hard Right, but people won't let him be. Everyone wants to dump their problems on the head bartender and beer psychologist. Nick's life is filled with characters. Whether it's his rapacious ex-girlfriend Addison--who is married to a wealthy older man of mysterious out-of-town means--who randomly appears in his bed late at night; or his childhood friend, Ryan, who claims they are really brothers and constantly makes dubious decisions which...

Rudolf Sebestyen is missing, and Marianne Smalls is involved in an illicit affair with the shady Jonas Schmitt. Both cases converge when Dora Urban, Rudolf's beautiful and mysterious half-sister, and Lamont Smalls, Marianne's suspicious husband, hire Jack Mitchell, a hard-drinking, chain-smoking private investigator. Dora wants Jack to uncover what happened to her brother, while Lamont seeks proof of his wife's infidelity. But Dora is a vampire, in a city teeming with creatures of the night. As Jack dives deeper, he discovers that both cases are linked to vepratoga.

It is an obsession that has haunted Nick Malick for seven years - to avenge the murder of his young son. In his gut Malick knows who did it. But the psychopath is in prison for another crime, scheduled to be released in a year. All Malick has to do is wait...and survive.

Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-arson investigator for McFalls County, Dane has lived his life in one of the most chaotic and crime-ridden regions of the south. When he gets called in to consult on a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida, motel room, he and his FBI counterpart, Special Agent Roselita Velasquez, begin an investigation that leads them back to the criminal circles of his own backyard.

Red Harvest is a hardboiled classic that set the standard for gritty, no-nonsense crime fiction. Written by Dashiell Hammett, this explosive novel follows an unnamed detective—referred to only as “The Continental Op”—as he arrives in a corrupt industrial town known as “Poisonville.” Hired to clean up the city, he quickly finds himself in the middle of a brutal gang war. Betrayals, double-crosses, and brutal power plays spiral into chaos as the Op’s relentless quest for justice leads to a blood-soaked reckoning.

Quint Adler is a small town crime reporter with bigger aspirations. Stuck in a hospital bed on his 40th birthday, he overhears a conversation that arouses his suspicions. Sensing an opportunity, Quint starts his own investigation, bypassing local law enforcement in the process. His inquiries lead him to the scene of a savage murder. And then a second one, even more barbaric in nature.

Charles "Charlie" Warner Kennedy O'Brien is an Private Investigator, or as he prefers to be called, a Private Eye. He investigates and solves 'White Collar' crimes in the USA as well as all around the globe. Charlie is a old school and 'Rat Pack' kind of detective. Laguna Woods Village [southern California] is one of the most beautiful, friendly and safest retirement communities in America, and perhaps the whole world. VMS [i.e. Village management Services and GRF [i.e. Golden Rain Foundation] have hired our man Charlie to investigate the theft of seven (7) priceless original old master oil...

Charles 'Charlie' Werner Kennedy O'Brien, is an private investigator, or as some like to call him, a private eye. He and his very brave and adventuresome A-Team ( do you recall them?) traverse the Globe looking for bad guys, and girls, depot's, criminals, drug cartels, and worse. They also investigate crooked banks that are said to be 'to big to fail.'

Charles 'Charlie' Warner Kennedy O'Brien is a private investigator, but he prefers to be called a private eye. He is Irish, of course, and he travels the globe looking for the bad guys. The White Collar bad guys. The crooks at some of the large investment firms as well as at the big so called 'to big to fail' banks. Do you recall, Country Wide Funding, Lehmann Brothers Investment company, J. P. Chase and Company, Merrill Lynch [before Bank of America bailed them out] and last but clearly not least, Bernard 'Bernie' Madoff, who cost the American tax payers 65 Billion dollars. Yes, ladies and...

In the seedy depths of Angel City a new kind of scum is taking root. Working girls are going missing and when they show back up again it's bad news. The pervs and freaks seem to be winning but the deal is they never counted on Mel Thompson. Not just any shamus or private dick, Mel has a certain, shall we say, connection to another place down under but it's not Australia. The clock is ticking for Mel to solve the case because the deeper he gets into it, the better the odds that he's going to get his block knocked off, and then it's not just curtains, but a one-way ticket back to Hell for the...

He's the youngest officer to ever make detective on the force. One man trained him, the feared Inspector Thomas Sullivan. Once a naive, idealistic police officer, he's now a younger, less cynical version of his mentor. For fans of the Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thriller series, every episode in the Capital City Characters series is a must read. Get Episode III in the Capital City Character crime noir series from the future and learn the story of Detective Josephson.