Noir True Crime

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.

Noir contains three classic thrillers by Richard Matheson, the grand master of suspense. Originally published in the 1950s, at the very beginning of Matheson’s distinguished career, these page-turning classics are finally on audio for your listening pleasure. Now listeners everywhere can savor three unforgettable tales of crime, corruption, and cold-blooded murder.

When you can’t hear…death comes silently. Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world. When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives. A stunning, claustrophobic, “...

Everyone calls her paranoid. She calls it survival. Megan Wells is a true crime junkie who knows the anatomy of a killer. While her city obsesses over the hit docuseries The Mind of a Killer, Megan isn't just watching for entertainment—she is watching for a monster. When Jared Adams starts at her firm, the office sees a scholarly, harmless man with a gentle stutter. Megan sees a ghost. Jared looks, speaks, and moves exactly like the "Butcher of the Village," the serial killer who vanished into the Toronto snow a decade ago. Her coworkers think she’s unhinged. The police think she’s ...

On a chilly Monday morning in 1935, a young maid opened the garage door of a Southern California seaside villa onto a grim scene. Her employer, a popular motion picture comedienne, lay dead in the front seat of her expensive automobile. Within hours, the news of Thelma Todd’s death was making headlines throughout the nation. Was it murder, suicide, or accident? Cast against the background of Hollywood and Los Angeles, the film industry and the growing metropolis, her death baffled both the public and the investigating authorities. After numerous attempts to solve the mystery over the last...

A true crime podcast sets a trophy wife's present life on a collision course with her secret past in this "blazingly intense" Reese Witherspoon book club pick and New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year (A. J. Finn). The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life exploded started off like...

The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity—its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history—is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th anniversary. From real crime to serial...

The mayor had a mistress, a wife who knew too much, and a secret he’d kill to keep. When a body turns up at a sleazy motel on the edge of town, the whole rotten heart of St. Isidore starts to bleed. The cops want it buried. The mayor wants it forgotten. But someone’s talking—and the truth has a nasty habit of crawling into the light. She was beautiful, dangerous, and smarter than any man in the room. He was powerful, cornered, and ready to make a deal with the devil. His wife? Cold as ice and twice as deadly. Lust. Lies. And one hell of a mess. This isn’t politics. This is The Case ...

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...

The girls yammer all the way to Colorado and Baer's ready for a change. Stinky Joe concurs. But a random Rocky Mountain storm combines with a slippy transmission to force Baer to the side of the road to be rescued by an unwitting cop with a secret. Sometimes good men contemplate evil out of love. Sometimes they need an accomplice with backwood skills...and a reputation that precedes him. Sometimes they're a day late.

He was a cop. She was his daughter. One of them wasn’t walking away. James Bradford wore the badge in St. Isidore for thirty-five years. He broke up bar fights, kept the town quiet—and never once had to draw his weapon. Until the night his daughter came home. Amanda Petrocelli’s got a record longer than Main Street, a husband with blood on his hands, and two kids caught in the middle. When they show up armed and angry, James doesn’t call for backup. He goes for the gun safe. In a town where loyalty is currency and regret comes due at midnight, this is one cop’s last stand—...

In this heart-pounding thriller and sequel to the Reese Witherspoon book club pick Conviction, Anna and Fin find themselves on another breathtaking chase across Europe—and another race to save their own lives. Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. Anna McDonald has made a...

Mike Gatto was an up-and-coming young lawmaker when his father was brutally murdered. The act sucked him into the world of noir: wild theories, intransigent detectives, and unimaginable violence.

Master storyteller Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series has been praised by Ian Rankin as “righteous Kentucky noir with top notes of Daniel Woodrell and S. A. Cosby,” and in this breakneck new novel, sheriff Mick Hardin navigates the treacherous terrain of a town’s festering secrets and...

In Slaughter in the Streets, Don Stradley masterfully unfolds the story of how Boston became "boxing's murder capital." From the early days of Boston's Mafia, to the era of Whitey Bulger, Stradley tells the fascinating stories of men who were drawn to the dual shady worlds of boxing and the mob.

The novel centers on Dickie Cornish, a Black streetwise survivor living in a homeless camp near DC's Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Framed for the murder of two of his closest friends and facing life in prison, Dickie crosses paths with wealthy ex-Homeland Security Secretary, Jamie Bracht. Bracht offers him a chance at a new life if Dickie can navigate an underground world to uncover a prize Bracht will stop at nothing to acquire.

Harrow’s Bend was ready to celebrate its future—until a construction project became an exhumation. The discovery of multiple female remains turns a long-promised civic development into a crime scene and exposes a twenty-year pattern of disappearances no one wanted to track. When true-crime podcaster Kara Ellison digs into what the town buried, the past resurfaces with lethal consequences—and the old roadhouse where she records feels a little too attentive. In Harrow’s Bend, the dead don’t stay buried—and asking the wrong questions can get you killed.

Based on true events, PERMANENCE, is a dark, "Hitchcockian" literary tour-de-force about Mary Kismet, a woman who is holding onto a deep dark secret too painful and startling to reveal. Now, having isolated herself from the world, she attempts to break away from her demons by immersing herself, body and soul, into a passionate and erotic love affair with her psychiatrist. From NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author, Vincent Zandri, comes a story with an unforgettable climax. Called "hauntingly beautiful" by bOOk R3vi3ws, PERMANENCE is a tragic novel of obsession, dark compulsions, ...

In the quiet suburbs, everyone has something to hide… Seth Verman returns home as an exonerated killer. Once condemned for a brutal double murder, now cleared and hailed as a symbol of justice overturned. With friendly smiles and backyard barbecues, the neighborhood cautiously welcomes Seth back into its fold. Yet behind picket-fence hospitality, whispers about the past grow louder. Is the handsome man next door truly innocent, or is a monster lurking behind his affable facade? Aden Weaver is a disgraced writer clinging to the truth like a lifeline. Once celebrated for his sharp pen and ...

Navigating her way through nightmarish lands devoid of sunlight, Eyelet Elsworth races to free her beloved Urlick Babbit, the first person to understand and accept her - differences and all. Framed for murder and sentenced to execution, Urlick is running out of time. And the Commonwealth's tyrannical new ruler, Penelope Rapture, is strangely eager to speed up the clock.