Crime Noir

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a...

Jason is a werewolf. He's one of my best friends and sometimes a lover. And right now he needs me, Anita Blake – not to be a vampire hunter, or a Federal Marshall, or a necromancer, but because his father is dying. Because this is the weekend that Marmee Noir, ancient mother of all vampires, picks to make her move.

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

Auf der Suche nach Inspiration begibt er sich in einen zwielichtigen Club im Zentrum Stockholms und wird dabei Zeuge eines Mordes, der auf unheimliche Weise an den in seinem begonnenen Kriminalroman erinnert. Er gilt von nun an als Hauptverdächtiger, und schon bald wird Tom in ein tödliches Spiel verwickelt, bei dem Fiktion und Wirklichkeit verschwimmen.

Elisabetta è avvocata in un piccolo studio associato e galleggia tra cause di separazioni, spaccio, affitti non pagati. Dalla penna di uno dei più raffinati scrittori italiani un romanzo di ritmo e suspense che racconta la discesa agli inferi di una giovane donna come tante. Un thriller che inchioda il lettore alla pagina, e insieme una lucida rappresentazione della società contemporanea, che svela la follia che si cela dietro la vita di tutti i giorni.

Joe Dylan ventures into the Bangkok City bars. The detective follows a trail leading to Demon Dreams, a Bangkok S&M joint run by a beautiful transsexual and her mentally deranged brother. Joe discovers a world of bizarre nocturnal acts and black magic rituals. It's a seedy Bangkok underworld that picks-up fallen women from the streets and throws them into an evil world of torture and murder.

À l'entrée du périph, un vieux monsieur, peignoir en velours et chaussons en peluche effilochés, se répète inlassablement cette question. Échappé de son Ehpad, Mariole, tueur à gages, ne se souvient plus de rien, sauf d'une chose : il lui reste une mission à accomplir. Seul problème, il ne sait plus laquelle. Mathilde, elle, se bourre d'anxiolytiques pour oublier.

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.

'An outstanding cosy crime debut. Death by Noir is the sparkling start to a corking new series!' JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of The Killer Question 'Uncork this sparkling delight and quaff deep. With high notes of comedy, suspense and fruity characterisation Olly Smith's debut is...

Bob Dylan once declared that "Sex and politics and murder is the way to go if you want to get people's attention," and readers won't be able to look away from Shadows on Sidewalks, the new erotic thriller from James Grady. James Traven returns home to his small Montana town in autumn 2024 to care for his mother after a devasting fall. He quickly finds himself trapped in a life-threatening web of lies and lust. With the clock ticking, Traven must save the savvy and beautiful Lana LaBuff from almost-certain murder.

"In a sardonic tone, Joe Lewis delivers this captivating, bloodstained, deeply twisted, hard-boiled thriller following a day in the life of Argentinian oligarch Luis Machi." -- AudioFile Magazine The first novel to appear in English by the "subway janitor by night, novelist by day," who began...

Film noir: the name comes from the French for “black” or “dark film.” It points to the central feature of the genre: mood. There is a darkness about film noir, a somberness accompanied by a thrill of dread and ever-present danger. This aura envelops wealthy heiresses, English aristocrats, tough-guy drifters, jazz musicians, drug dealers, and respected schoolteachers—all of whom have secrets to hide and much to lose if those secrets are unveiled.

Former investigator, Thomas Ravnsholdt—known as Ravn—drifts like wreckage along Copenhagen's harbour, numbed by cheap liquor and old wounds. But his peace is shattered when a desperate young woman shows up, pleading for help: her brother has vanished after stealing millions. The trail leads Ravn from the windy docks of Copenhagen to Berlin, where ghosts of the Cold War still linger: Stasi files, double agents, and brutality that never truly came to an end. Ravn soon realises that the missing is not merely lost, but ensnared in a deadly web.

Michael Palmer, a skilled physician and veteran of big city emergency rooms, burst on the literary scene with The Sisterhood, a riveting medical thriller that instantly climbed the New York Times bestseller list. Palmer followed up that smashing debut with a string of major bestsellers, each one...

Trelleborg, Südschweden, 1989: Polizeimeisterin Gunni Hilding wird überraschend vom Dezernat für Gewaltverbrechen rekrutiert. Doch die junge Beamtin fühlt sich der Aufgabe alles andere als gewachsen: Von ihren eigenen Eltern verstoßen, muss ausgerechnet Gunni ein Verbrechen aufdecken, das eine Familie zu zerreißen droht. Denn ein achtjähriges Kind ist spurlos im Wald verschwunden … Fünf Jahre später wiederholt sich ein ähnlicher Fall – Gunni sieht als Einzige eine Parallele. Und wenn sie recht hat, bedeutet das, dass ein gefährlicher Serientäter noch immer auf freiem Fuß ist.

'This novel stands successfully on its own, its characters fleshed out and in full possession of their idiosyncrasies — all magnificently conveyed by narrator Steve Worsley...He captures perfectly the novel’s dark wit and the region’s pugnacity, bringing a sense of festivity to the police...

Missing and feared dead for years, Isabelle "Izzie" Barnes has returned to Arkham after escaping a sinister cult that planned to make her the final piece in their dark, twisted ritual. But Isabelle's freedom has come at a terrible cost, and now she demands justice. When bodies start to show up with strange glass orbs burned into their mouths and uncanny links to a series of cold cases emerge, Isabelle partners with police officer Tommy Muldoon to unravel a sinister plot and uncovers an evil that runs both deep and dark through the city of Arkham. Something only a bullet can kill . . .

Andy Park can’t stand the sight of blood. Unfortunately, he’s just set a blood feud in motion. He thinks he’s found a clever way to make his family’s enemies pay. He hasn’t thought through the consequences. Things unravel fast. His teenage son is in mortal danger. His daughter and her fiancé are dragged into doing the violence he can’t face himself. Every attempt to regain control only makes things worse.

It's corrupt to the bone and under the ever watchful surveillance system known as the Eye. Money has been abandoned in favor of the credit system. All citizens are required to carry hand held devises containing their credit score and personal information. Dylan is recovering from the government attitude adjustment program known as the Punch since his credits reached zero. His adopted son Jimmy is missing presumed dead and his basement office is infested with contrarian rats.