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Crime and Mystery: Hard-Boiled Crime, Noir Fiction
Black Cherry Blues 1990
Dave Robicheaux, Book 3
Black Cherry Blues follows former Louisiana homicide detective Dave Robicheaux as he tries to build a quieter life running a fishing business and caring for his adopted daughter, Alafair. Still haunted by the murder of his wife and struggling to stay sober, Robicheaux is pulled back into violence...
The Bloomsday Dead 2013
Michael Forsythe, Book 3
Laying low in South America, Michael has been running security for the Miraflores Hilton in Lima, Peru, juggling temperamental tourists, irksome dignitaries, and the occasional lady of the night. But Michael's colorful life in Lima comes to a violent halt with the arrival of two Colombian hit men...
The Boy in the Earth 2018
As an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a night shift, picking up fares that offer him glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, he can’t escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to, he puts himself in harm’s way; he can’t stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning...
Hidden River 2004
Disgraced after succumbing to a drug addiction, former Northern Ireland detective Alexander Lawson learns that his high-school sweetheart has been murdered and finds himself on the run after witnessing a second killing, a situation that is complicated by a corruption scandal.
The Intrigue 2026
Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won't last forever, and he's desperate to get his hands on a real fortune. He thinks he's found it when he captivates his newest...
Joyland 2013
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 confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
The Kingdom 2017
Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the...
The Long Goodbye 1988
Philip Marlowe, Book 6
The Long Goodbye follows private detective Philip Marlowe after he befriends Terry Lennox, a troubled and wealthy war veteran drifting through Los Angeles with a glamorous but destructive wife. When Lennox suddenly asks Marlowe for help escaping to Mexico, Marlowe agrees without fully understanding...
A Morbid Passion 2026
Selby Bigge, Book 2
London 1930. Selby Bigge and his aristocratic sidekick Theodora Smythe are invited to dine with Doctor Hector Fortescue and his family. While the Victorians might have defined heterosexuality and homosexuality as perversions, the doctor believes the former can be redeemed and the latter...
My Annihilation 2022
Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.
With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime.
Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of...
The Night Gardener 2009
In this thrilling crime novel, homicide detective Gus Ramone is on the case for the potential murder of a local teen in a community garden—but the investigation slowly unearths dark memories of similar decades-old cold cases.
Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now...
Pay Dirt 2025
V. I. Warshawski, Book 22
V.I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where Angela, one of her...
Please See Us 2020
Summer has come to Atlantic City, but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does lie hidden in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel. Only one person knows they’re there.
Meanwhile, Clara, a struggling boardwalk psychic, gives tarot readings to make ends...
Room to Swing 2022
Toussaint Moore is a college-educated, decorated war veteran. Because he’s also a Black man, his employment options are limited, so he ekes out a living as a private eye serving Black clients in and around Harlem where he lives.
When he’s hired by producers of a television reality show called...
The Rope Artist 2024
Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body— then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice.
As Togashi, a junior member of the...
Strangers on a Train 2001
The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno,...
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The Intrigue July 14, 2026
Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won't last forever, and he's desperate to get his hands on a real fortune. He thinks he's found it when he captivates his newest...
A Morbid Passion June 23, 2026
Selby Bigge, Book 2
London 1930. Selby Bigge and his aristocratic sidekick Theodora Smythe are invited to dine with Doctor Hector Fortescue and his family. While the Victorians might have defined heterosexuality and homosexuality as perversions, the doctor believes the former can be redeemed and the latter...
Pay Dirt April 15, 2025
V. I. Warshawski, Book 22
V.I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where Angela, one of her...
The Rope Artist April 2, 2024
Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body— then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice.
As Togashi, a junior member of the...
My Annihilation December 6, 2022
Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.
With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime.
Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of...
Room to Swing October 4, 2022
Toussaint Moore is a college-educated, decorated war veteran. Because he’s also a Black man, his employment options are limited, so he ekes out a living as a private eye serving Black clients in and around Harlem where he lives.
When he’s hired by producers of a television reality show called...
Please See Us March 3, 2020
Summer has come to Atlantic City, but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does lie hidden in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel. Only one person knows they’re there.
Meanwhile, Clara, a struggling boardwalk psychic, gives tarot readings to make ends...
The Boy in the Earth April 24, 2018
As an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a night shift, picking up fares that offer him glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, he can’t escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to, he puts himself in harm’s way; he can’t stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning...
The Kingdom April 4, 2017
Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the...
Joyland June 4, 2013
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 confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
The Bloomsday Dead February 23, 2013
Michael Forsythe, Book 3
Laying low in South America, Michael has been running security for the Miraflores Hilton in Lima, Peru, juggling temperamental tourists, irksome dignitaries, and the occasional lady of the night. But Michael's colorful life in Lima comes to a violent halt with the arrival of two Colombian hit men...
The Night Gardener June 10, 2009
In this thrilling crime novel, homicide detective Gus Ramone is on the case for the potential murder of a local teen in a community garden—but the investigation slowly unearths dark memories of similar decades-old cold cases.
Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now...
Hidden River December 21, 2004
Disgraced after succumbing to a drug addiction, former Northern Ireland detective Alexander Lawson learns that his high-school sweetheart has been murdered and finds himself on the run after witnessing a second killing, a situation that is complicated by a corruption scandal.
Strangers on a Train August 17, 2001
The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno,...
Black Cherry Blues December 1, 1990
Dave Robicheaux, Book 3
Black Cherry Blues follows former Louisiana homicide detective Dave Robicheaux as he tries to build a quieter life running a fishing business and caring for his adopted daughter, Alafair. Still haunted by the murder of his wife and struggling to stay sober, Robicheaux is pulled back into violence...
The Long Goodbye August 12, 1988
Philip Marlowe, Book 6
The Long Goodbye follows private detective Philip Marlowe after he befriends Terry Lennox, a troubled and wealthy war veteran drifting through Los Angeles with a glamorous but destructive wife. When Lennox suddenly asks Marlowe for help escaping to Mexico, Marlowe agrees without fully understanding...