European Noir

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.

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...

In the shadowed alleys of Barcelona, a body is found beneath a single streetlamp. No witnesses. No struggle. Just a message someone wanted delivered. Detective Chief Inspector Walker is sent in when the murder reveals a level of precision that feels disturbingly familiar. As he digs deeper into the city’s underbelly, Walker uncovers a network of secrets woven through power, wealth, and influence—where history is buried for a reason, and silence is enforced at any cost. What begins as a single killing soon points to something larger. Something international. And someone who doesn’t ...

**Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award Best Debut of the Year** **Shortlisted for the Crimetime Award 2022** Two couples set out together on a hiking trip that goes terrifyingly wrong in this addictive psychological thriller for fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley. Anna, Henrik and Milena's...

RATCATCHER Book One of the acclaimed John Purkiss Spy Action Thriller series. When spies go rogue, they need to be stopped. That's where John Purkiss - the Ratcatcher - comes in. Purkiss's job is straightforward. Track down members of the intelligence services who are taking kickbacks, engaging in criminal activity, or otherwise abusing their positions, and bring them to justice. Straightforward doesn't mean easy... After a renegade British former intelligence agent, Fallon, is sighted in the Baltic city of Tallinn on the eve of a historic summit meeting between the Russian and Estonian ...

**A murder. A snowbound train. A web of lies that runs the length of Europe.** When the _Orient Express_ grinds to a halt in a blizzard on its way from Istanbul to Paris, a passenger is found dead in his locked compartment. The door is bolted from the inside. The windows are sealed. And every soul aboard swears they heard nothing. Inspector Lucien Arnaud of the Bureau of International Investigations is dispatched to investigate—an assignment that becomes a descent into deception, politics, and guilt. Among the passengers: a countess, a colonel, a secretary, a smuggler, and a priest. Each ...

A #1 international bestseller, this atmospheric and breathtaking sequel to the “cerebral, immersive page-turner” (The Washington Post) The Wolf and the Watchman explores the darkness hidden beneath the splendor of 18th-century Stockholm. Stockholm, 1794: A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses...

In Death and Judgment, the fourth novel in Donna Leon's bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite Mountains. Meanwhile, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity train bound...

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected.

A perfect crime. A bad deal. And a man who thought he was smarter than the devil. The year is 1982. Italy still prints its own paper money. The Cold War is alive and well. And inside the Italian mint, temptation is everywhere. A Rome-based mafia kingpin is offered something that sounds impossible—and far too good to be true. Massimo Serpieri is a brilliant but deeply dissatisfied technician at the Italian mint. After years of watching billions of lire roll off the presses, temptation finally wins. Massimo believes he has discovered a flawless method to create perfect counterfeit U.S. ...

This is a collection of stories of innocent Americans leaving their inhibitions by the side as they travel through Europe! Alice is on a geological research mission on a Greek island filled with anguish. Back at home there is a man who wants to marry her, but she’s worried she’ll be locking herself into marriage before she’s had a chance to explore everything that life has to offer. An encounter with a stranger offers her some insight and the chance to explore the darker side of life. She can't help but wonder if one man will ever be enough again...

Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti’s hopes of escaping the sweltering heat of Venice in August for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in a field in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches...

Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books has published over 60 volumes in its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring Noir Series stories from: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, and more.

This series follows different American women exploring Europe and themselves! More often than not, that means getting familiar with a group of erotic European men! Mindy is on the last leg of her European trip, and she’s dreading going home. Her boyfriend back home cheated on her. He called her "frigid!" She'd hoped she would get the chance to prove him wrong on her European tour but the opportunity never came up... until now. She meets a man in a club who says he can show her something more exciting. She’s taken to a sex club and is faced with this open atmosphere where lust and desire...

These are stories of people getting in touch with their sexual selves by embracing adventure throughout Europe. Cassie is in Paris for half a year. She's still in love with her long-distance American boyfriend and is crushed when he tells her that he's found someone new. In her grief she meets a man called Jean, a man who has a different perspective on love. He makes her an offer, one that might help her completely forget her boyfriend. One man broke her heart, it'll take a group effort to help her recover!

Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short. Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn't going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder. With a promotion on the line and her arrogant adversary, Pertti Ström, vying for the new job, Maria is determined to make an arrest.

This series is about innocent American women letting loose on their journeys through Europe! Melissa hoped for adventure when she first began her travels around Europe. In Sweden she finds herself lodging with a married Swedish couple. After hearing mysterious screams one night, she investigates, only to walk in on Bjorn and Anna having steamy sex. Melissa’s innocence is given away, and she’s taught some valuable lessons about intimacy as this married couple treat her like a toy.

The second case of Inspector Eva Santiago What if someone told you the exact day and hour of your death… and proved they were serious? In the early hours of a Friday morning, Dr. Delfín Sánchez walks into a police station in northern Spain with a chilling story. For the past year, he has received one letter every month announcing his death. At first, he dismissed them as a cruel joke. Now the letters arrive daily. Each one more precise than the last. His death is scheduled for July 20th at 7:00 p.m., the exact date and time of his birth, and his fiftieth birthday. As if the letters ...

This series is about innocent American women letting loose on their journeys through Europe! Gem was raised by parents who always wanted her to be a star. She fled from that pressure, taking a job as a housekeeper to a wealthy man. One night he invites her to a party with some of his friends who are always interested in meeting travelers. Gem finds herself alone with six Icelandic men, each of them descended from Vikings. Whatever anyone intended for her, she is the center of attention. Just like a good star, she's going to give quite the show.

Murder pairs well with mystery in this fast-paced financial thriller. BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER, MYSTERY B.R.A.G. MEDALLION HONOREE, HISTORICAL FICTION READERS' FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL WINNER, MYSTERY Multi-billionaire banker and philanthropist, Ekram M. Almasi, has just been murdered... And there’s only one person who can uncover the mystery behind this international banking scandal: Louise Moscow. Able to handle a high-powered speedboat, an ex-lover, and a ginger-haired villain with equal ease, this international spy embarks on a journey that will take her to Monte Carlo, Paris, and ...