Crime Noir Collection

In this breakout standalone novel of suspense in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on a Train, a woman agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been framed for murder—but begins to suspect that she is the one being manipulated. And look for Alafair Burke’s latest heart-racing novel of...

One of the 20th-century's most darkly beautiful works of crime fiction - a story of carny life, spiritualism, and a con man of merciless resolve.

Three Powerful Stories. Three Edge of Your Seat Thrillers. Three Books at a Discounted Price. Death Unholy (Book 1) - All that remained were the man’s two legs and a chair full of greasy and fetid ash. Little did DI Keith Tremayne know that it was the beginning of a trip into the murky world of paganism and its ancient rituals. And it was going to get very dangerous ‘Do you believe in spontaneous human combustion?’ Detective Inspector Tremayne asked. ‘I haven’t,’ Tremayne replied which did not surprise his young sergeant. In the months they had been together, she had come to ...

Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook should have been made a superintendent by now. Tall, urbane, and one of London's finest detectives, he's been held back by office politics—not his results. Alongside DI Larry Hill and veteran Sergeant Wendy Gladstone, Cook investigates the murders that others can't solve. Perfect for fans of Peter James, Ian Rankin, and Lynda La Plante. Murder is a Tricky Business (Book 1) – A soap opera actress has vanished, and everyone assumes she's been murdered. But it's not the first time she's gone missing. Why has DCI Cook been pulled from serious crimes to ...

Three books. Three wars. One unstoppable Delta Force commander, his Merry Men, and Friends. It’s Bob Burke Box Set #1. 1200+ pages. 4.5 Amazon Stars. Known as 'The Ghost' by his troops during six combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he’s the most lethal force the US government ever produced. Like a good action-adventure series? Do you binge read Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Lee Child? If you’re a fan of Mitch Rapp, Scot Harvath, Jack Ryan, the Grayman, Jack Reacher, or Mark Dawson’s Milton, you’ll love Box #1 of the Bob Burke Series. Now a seemingly a mild-mannered, semi-retired ...

The cases are getting darker. DCI Isaac Cook has seen it all in his years with London's Homicide division, but the murders keep evolving—more calculated, more personal, more deadly. With his team at Challis Street, Cook digs into the city's shadows to find killers who think they're untouchable. Perfect for fans of Peter James, Ian Rankin, and Lynda La Plante. Murder in Room 346 (Book 7) – On the bed lie the naked bodies of James Holden, a moral campaigner who preached the sanctity of marriage, and a woman who once killed her husband. Both were shot in the head. What were they doing in ...

Six dark Highland mysteries. One relentless detective. Sarah Lynch has become Fort William's most skilled investigator, solving impossible crimes across the unforgiving Highland landscape. This collection brings together six standalone mysteries that showcase her methodical brilliance, from locked-room puzzles to environmental murders, family betrayals to ritual killings. THE WHISKY GRAVE (Book 7) A master distiller found dead inside a sealed whisky cask. Family secrets fermenting for generations. Sarah must navigate century-old feuds and modern greed to expose a killer hiding behind ...

Justice rusts. The record does not. Detective Kola Adeyemi has spent years documenting the men who built Nigeria’s most patient corruption. Now the system answers with its best weapon: a taskforce designed to review the evidence out of existence. In The Long Silence, the final season of The Ajegunle Files, a Geneva funding trail, forty-three people loaded into unmarked white vans, and a witness in Accra all point the same way. Kola, Efe Okon and journalist Seyi Bello have one advantage left: everything is written down. Three complete books. One ten-book series. The reckoning Lagos has ...

The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller—as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark—involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and...

DETECTIVE JORDAN CROSS DOESN'T SOLVE COLD CASES. SHE EXPOSES THE CONSPIRACIES THAT CREATED THEM. In the ruins of Detroit, where abandoned buildings outnumber people and institutional corruption runs fifty years deep, one detective refuses to let the forgotten stay buried. Jordan Cross works the cases nobody wants—decades-old murders in a basement cold case unit where files gather dust and victims' families have stopped hoping for justice. She's cynical, damaged, relentless. A divorced cop who chain-smokes through sixteen-hour days because the work is all she has. Then she finds the ...

“A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War.” —Miami Herald “Not only his finest novel but one that transcends the limits of its genre and is worthy of being evaluated as literary fiction.” —Houston Chronicle Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved...

Get Shorty’s Chili Palmer is back in Be Cool, a classic novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. But this time it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy. After a smash hit and a flop, B-movie-producer Chili Palmer is looking for another score. Lunching with a record company...

Every cynical detective who ever walked down a mean street with a gun and a code owes him a debt. Every hard-boiled cop, every burned-out private eye, every noir thriller on the shelf today traces back to one man — a former Pinkerton operative who had actually done the work, and who taught American crime fiction to stop being a parlor puzzle and start drawing blood. Before Dashiell Hammett, the detective story was a genteel game of clues. After him, it was literature. This volume collects the first three novels — written in a furious burst between 1929 and 1930, the books that invented ...

A journalist is found in an Ajegunle alley with her throat cut and a rusted key in her fist. The key is stamped UNIT 15B. It was logged as destroyed five years ago. It was logged as destroyed by the police. Detective Kola Adeyemi carries a dead partner's badge in his pocket and the guilt of a file he should never have signed. He takes the case because no one else will. He does not yet know that the rot he is chasing has a name, a budget, and his own name buried inside it. What begins as one murder becomes a ledger of eight hundred and ninety million naira routed through ghost officers who ...

Catching a killer is dangerous—especially if he lives next door From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them both to murder...

“While a single sentence can turn a novel, a single word can turn a short story,” writes guest editor Don Winslow. The pieces featured in this collection hinge on those small, exacting moments that shock, spook, delight, and change a story entirely. A disgraced ex-cop approaches a crossroads...

What if the hero you mourned was never the man you knew? For three years, Amina Garba believed her husband died with honor. Musa was remembered as a brave man who paid the ultimate price. A protector. A hero. Then a discovery forces her to confront the impossible. A trail of money. A secret she was never meant to find. And questions surrounding her husband's final days that refuse to disappear. Detective Kola Adeyemi has returned, carrying the weight of everything he failed to uncover before. This time, he is not chasing a case. He is chasing the truth. Because Musa left behind a warning. ...

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears, and series editor Steph Cha. In his introduction, guest editor S. A. Cosby observes that writing short stories is “a special skill that...

Now in a single box set - three MORE hard hitting and action-packed Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thrillers - Hardboiled Noir from the Future! Fans of classic pulp detective stories from the pens of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler will enjoy Sully's deadpan banter and the assorted villians and corrupt officials the Inspector must contend with. Bladerunner fans will enjoy the setting in Capital City, a A hated authority figure from Sully's past reaches out and asks for the Inspector's help in solving the murder of a military policeman. The enigmatic Sarah struggles with reality as the ...

The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole—one apparently slain by his partner in crime who then...