Car Noir Fiction

Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series. For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the...

In a Detroit where chrome enhancement means power, ex-military investigator Cole Kingsley stays stubbornly human. Ever since his brother died facing chrome-enhanced insurgents overseas, he's sworn off the synthetic evolution that's transforming the city one citizen at a time. But when modified muscle cars start crashing with their drivers mysteriously fused to their vehicles, Cole's quest for answers leads him to underground street races where drivers push chrome integration to deadly limits. At the center of it all is Marlena Sterling, a club owner whose organic chrome interfaces hint at a...

Eddie Ankin is back! On the shores of paradise, danger lurks beneath the surface, but Eddie isn’t afraid to dive in. Former Marine Raider turned Hollywood stuntman Eddie Ankin was supposed to be enjoying some downtime on the sun-soaked beaches of Oahu. But when a fiery surf instructor named Mia ropes him into a scheme involving a powerful hotel tycoon and a stolen parcel, Eddie’s vacation turns into a high-stakes race for survival. With a gang of Hawaiian bikers on their tail and a ruthless tycoon pulling strings from the shadows, Eddie finds himself navigating an underworld as ...

Nick just wants to be left alone to do his job as a bartender in a small-town bar called The Hard Right, but people rarely get what they hope for in life. Standing behind the bar, pouring beers, and wiping mugs should be mundane and peaceful, but the weathered oak door swings open every night to needy, wanting characters who simply want somewhere to be. The one-legged owner mourning the loss of his wife, Nick's high school friend who can't get out of his own way, the unnamed patron with a round dent in his forehead and scars on his knuckles who quote Machiavelli and the Bible, Nick's ...

Nada oculta un secreto más rápido que una tumba recién cavada. Alguien con un bisturí y una mesa de embalsamamiento está enterrando cadáveres bajo otros nombres, y Pete Talbott y Sandy Kasmarek son los siguientes en la lista del enterrador. ¡Excelentes nuevas traducciones! Pete es un informático de Boston que todavía está de luto por su esposa cuando el sicario de la mafia Gino Parini le pone una pistola del calibre 45 y el periódico Columbus Ohio de esa mañana en la cara, abierto por la página de obituarios. El de Pete está ahí, en primer plano, y el de su esposa está al ...

February in Portland, Oregon, and what many are calling the Storm of the Century has left hundreds of abandoned cars and buses clogging the icy streets, shutting down the entire metroplex. Eddie Lombard, a tough, hard-boiled private eye, is facing another kind of storm. When Ericka Holland, Rikki to her friends, walked in off of those snowy streets and through his office door, a tempest followed hard on her heels. Rikki wasn’t just in trouble, she was trouble. Overwhelmed by Rikki’s beauty and touched by her vulnerability, Eddie immediately throws himself into her rescue with as little ...

Our Dave has been running Avenue Cars on Chanterlands Ave, Hull, for as long as anyone remembers. You can depend on Our Dave... but it wasn’t always like that. Back in the seventies he did things he isn’t proud of, and buried under the shed on his allotment behind Newland Ave, is a shotgun. There are dark forces in this city. Leatherhead controls the heavy drugs that come through Hessle Road. The Mancs are trying to muscle their way in, and then you’ve got the bent coppers. If Our Dave is to keep his drivers safe, he’ll have to go back to his old ways. It’ll be murder.

Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used-car salesman, has a pimp's awareness of the ways women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.

She was leaning against the door. Her smile was a sickly twisted grimace; the sort a prisoner gives a judge when he's asked if he has anything to say before he's sentenced. Russell Haxby is a ruthless used-car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. In this classic of hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue, and lust set in San Francisco in the early '50s.

La nuova avventura raccontata da The Hawk ci porta nel mondo delle gare automobilistiche, dove la durezza e la perizia tecnica sono caratteristiche imprescindibili dei piloti e dei loro navigatori. Sullo sfondo di un Rally si svolge una complicata vicenda ambientata tra Washington, Milano e l'Ossola. Sono coinvolti il Presidente degli Stati Uniti e la sua Intelligence.