Detective Noir Comedy

From the dark and twisted mind behind the podcast sensation The Magnus Archives comes a suffocating, socially charged nightmare that reveals how fear festers in the cracks of everyday life… Beneath the streets of London, it hungers… It's the hottest summer on record and the city is suffering...

Private eye Eddie Valiant doesn't like Toons - those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. But Eddie will work for a Toon if his cash supply is low enough. So he reluctantly agrees when Roger Rabbit, a Toon who plays straight man (or should that be straight rabbit) in the Baby Herman cartoon series, asks him to find out who's been trying - unsuccessfully - to buy his contract from the DeGreasy Brothers syndicate. Then Rocco DeGreasy is murdered - and Roger is the prime suspect!

A billionaire talent manager. A bowl of cold artisanal soup. And ten inches of sterling silver sticking out of his neck. For disgraced ex-cop turned cynical private investigator Kevin Hayes, a Tuesday night was supposed to end with a cheap glass of tap water and a terrible five-minute set at an underground comedy club. Instead, he’s dragged into a high-stakes homicide investigation where the victim is face-down in his own thirty-two-dollar appetizers. Julian Montgomery was a lot of things—a thief, a liar, and a ten-percent comedy pimp who managed the city’s worst prop comics. But he ...

Charlie just wants a quiet life … Then he finds a human skull buried in the front yard. Mystery writer Charlie McGinley moves from L.A. to a small town in New Mexico. No more big-city hassles. No more big-city hustles. Guess again! Suddenly Charlie has to deal with disappearing bodies, crabby cops, crazed killers, and a very pregnant wife, while trying desperately to avoid ending up in an unmarked grave next to the mysterious stiff. Gold Medal Winner, Humor and Satire —2024 Global Book Awards “Proverbial skeletons in closets and actual ones buried in the yard help make this a bone-...

The punchlines are landing, but the victims aren't laughing. Private investigator Kevin Hayes finds himself tangled in a case where the humor is fatal and the suspects are hiding behind complex lines of code. Armed with a vintage phone, a mug of steaming pitch-black coffee, and a relentless supply of groan-worthy bad dad jokes, Kevin has to crack the digital puzzle before the killer executes their final script. In a neon-lit city where technology and comedy collide, the system is rigged. Can Kevin decode the killer's motives, or will this be his final punchline? Knock, knock. Who’s dead? ...

Charlie McGinley writes about tough guys…then he has to become one. Fed up with writing cheesy detective fiction, Charlie dreams of writing something serious. Unfortunately, his publisher insists that he keep cranking out hard-boiled Johnny Dent PI novels. When Charlie stumbles across an urban legend about Thomas Edison inventing a machine that could speak to the dead, he thinks he’s found the perfect gimmick to spice up his next book. That is, until he builds the "Ghost Machine" and accidentally uses it... And people in his small New Mexico town start dying. Suddenly, Charlie must ...

Leaping Yule logs! Santa Claus has gone missing! And it's almost Christmas! Where is he? It's a Christmas-tery! What happens when Santa goes MIA? Well, Tweedle the elf decides they need to hire an amazing Private Eye to find him. Unfortunately, all they can afford is Nick Flebber. Flebber's a private eye riding a dry patch, income-wise, looking to take any case that walks through his door. Sure, the elf's money looks legit, but how does he know this isn't the effects of some mind altering drugs? Then he remembers he can't afford any mind altering drugs. So, before you can say “pa rum pum ...

It's February 1989, and things are heating up in Vermo, New Mexico. With only three months to go before the most important event in years, the fiery Mayor Sheila Fry is busy barking orders and taking names, one being a kid named Tommy Lee. He's the lanky young lad who chases after mischief and mayhem in his hand-me-down police cruiser, all while stirring up a little dust of his own. Hitch a seat on this fast ride through desert streets, dive bars, and tribal lands. You'd be smart to do so!

A washed-up sitcom star. A ransom note on a grease-stained napkin. And twenty-four hours to prevent a premier arson event. It’s 2:15 AM on a sweltering Thursday night, and ex-cop turned stand-up comedian Kevin Hayes is watching Tommy Vance—former network TV icon, current nobody—sweat through his makeup in front of an empty lounge. Ten minutes later, the lights flicker out, the dressing room door is splintered into kindling, and Tommy vanishes into the humid night. The kidnapper wants fifty grand by sunrise. If the press catches wind of the story, a massive streaming syndication deal ...

How do you live with yourself when you’ve already lost everything? Lee Bolton thought the worst was behind him — but in The Adulterer’s Dilemma (Book 3 of The Adulterer Series), his guilt has a heartbeat. Lee is on the run with Jo, the woman who saved him and carries his child. But peace is a stranger, and conscience a jailer. 💭 Confess and face justice? 🔥 Stay hidden with the woman he loves? ⚖️ Or give in to the darkest voices whispering that one more kill could be fun? When a real-world serial killer enters the picture, charming and dangerous in equal measure, Lee is ...

A high-society influencer. A floating coffee table. A hitman with terrible timing. Private Investigator Kevin Hayes doesn't do luxury. He does cheap coffee, bruised ribs, and low-lifes. But when twenty-four-year-old social media star Tiffany Mercer hires him because someone is entering her ten-million-dollar penthouse just to move her coffee table two inches to the left, Kevin realizes rich people have a whole different class of problems. What starts as a ridiculous spatial alignment headache quickly turns deadly. Behind the ring lights, silk pajamas, and viral skincare routines lies a cold...

In Lagos, the dead usually stay dead. Unless they need a dress fitted by Friday. Efe Oladunni is a tailor who just wants to pay her rent. She keeps her head down in the chaos of Balogun Market, sewing lace and avoiding trouble. But trouble finds her at 2:13 a.m. when her phone buzzes with a WhatsApp message. It’s an order for a wine-colored lace gown. The problem? The client, Mrs. Shitta, has been buried for six months. Efe knows—she sewed the burial shroud herself. Terrified but broke, Efe sews the dress. By dawn, the gown appears on a fresh corpse in Tinubu Square. Now, the police are...

Charlie McGinley wanted literary fame—He got a front-row seat to murder. Charlie writes hardboiled detective novels from his New Mexico ranch. His books sell, but never earn the respect he craves. He wants to be taken seriously. Maybe even win an award. So, when world-famous author Jon Masterson invites him to join his prestigious writer’s group, Charlie jumps at the chance. Sure, Masterson’s rich, smug and conceited, but Charlie’s willing to play nice if it means finally being taken seriously as a writer. Then cracks in the façade start to appear. Is Masterson mentoring new talent...

*FRANKIE BOYLE'S GRIPPING CRIME NOVEL: AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * 'A dark and entertaining tranche of Glasgow noir . . . [A] deft, engaging thriller' Observer 'Full of scintillating sentences and perfect lines of dialogue' Sunday Times...

You didn’t pick up a book. You picked up a Node—a pocket doorway into a set of worlds where stories don’t describe reality. They shape it. In Sector Folio-7, a catastrophic cascade has begun. Worlds are bleeding into each other, rules are breaking, and a city built from living pages is starting to collapse from the inside. Streets repeat out of order. People forget who they are mid-sentence. And “plot holes”—literal voids—open in the ground and swallow entire blocks. Mara Keene is a Scriptor tasked with keeping this place intact. She enters the City of Echoing Pages to recover...

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 ...

Gus is having computer problems. Luckily for him, nothing takes a sheriff’s mind off an IT problem like an active shooter at the local elementary school. The biggest problem with Gus’s active shooter is the relative inactivity of the shooter when Gus arrives at the scene. It isn’t long before Gus finds his would-be shooter dead on the school grounds with a rather unattractive hole in their head. That will take the activity out of any man. The state police commissioner seems satisfied that the active shooter was killed by an anonymous hero before they could kill anyone. The Governor ...

All Gus wanted to do was take a day trip up to the big city to get away from his constituents. However, some constituents are harder to avoid than others. He inadvertently bumps into Father Xavier while at an antique show. Neither this chance meeting or Gus’s appraisal are the worst thing to happen to the sheriff while out of town, because the other thing that’s hard for him to avoid is getting involved in a murder case. When one of the big winners at the antique show turns up dead it’s up to Gus to figure out who the murderer is. With the Father’s help, can Gus sort out the clues ...

Gus isn’t one to normally get invited to garden tea parties. However, the host is a political donor, and even though it’s not an election year, it never hurts to humor them. Only this party becomes more painful than most semi-political gatherings when the host inconveniently falls over dead. At first, given the woman’s poor health, Gus suspects natural causes. Only the coroner points out that it’s possible that Mrs. Lydia White died from an overdose of the herbal treatment she was using to lose weight. Thus, it is most likely an unnatural death from an all-natural product. That ...

Gus suspected Father Xavier asked him out for Thanksgiving dinner for more than just the friendly company. When you’re the sheriff of a small county you learn quickly that people only put on airs of wanting to be with you out of friendship. Typically instead these people think they’ve spotted a crime that they want you to deal with. The father suspects something rotten is in the air concerning a holiday family reunion involving the daughter of a once rich rancher, her famous author older brother, and her less than famous younger brother, the loan writer from Santa Fe. Gus isn’t one to...