European Noir

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...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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...

Twelve short stories, 12 points of view, 12 neighborhoods of the same town, and finally, 12 pieces of the same puzzle. Paris Noir takes you on a ride through the old medieval center of town with its intertwined streets, its ghosts, and its secrets buried in history. You'll cruise Paris with its nightclubs full of mysterious beauties who seem to have a lot to hide.

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.

This is a collection of stories of innocent Americans leaving their inhibitions by the side as they travel through Europe! Nyla is in England for a semester. She comes from a religious family with very strict parents, and a small town where there are certain expectations. But Nyla has always been the type to defy expectations and now that she’s away from home she wants to explore as much as she can! Currently she’s seeing an English guy when she confesses a deep fantasy of having multiple men. Perhaps he is the man who can make her fantasies come true…

These are stories of people getting in touch with their sexual selves by embracing adventure throughout Europe. Rebecca had always played by the rules. She was the perfect daughter and the perfect student, but after her heart was broken and humiliated she wondered what the point of it all was. Everyone else was having fun, while she was left behind. She ends up traveling to Italy in the hope of shedding her virtuous image, vowing to do whatever she wanted no matter how naughty it is. That’s when she meets Paolo, who tells her he knows a group of men who would worship her like never before...

This series is about innocent American women letting loose on their journeys through Europe! Lily seemed to always be in trouble back home. Her conservative and inflexible parents found fault with everything she did. At some point she just accepted it, being punished was her lot in life. She just expected it. While visiting Prague she finds herself arrested for a minor offense. She pleads with the local cops to let her go. They seem "flexible" about how she should pay for her crime. But is the arrangement they come up with their idea or is what Lily intended all along?

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.

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...

This series is about innocent American women letting loose on their journeys through Europe! Ariana is on a study exchange to England. She’s been crushing on the professor since the first lecture, and now he’s invited her on a special trip for special students! She’d do anything for him, but realizes that something is amiss when all the other students are male. The professor is interested in testing her limits. Will one girl be enough to satisfy all these men?

Un destin exceptionnel. New York, dans les années 1900. Une jeune fille, que passionnent les livres rares, se joue du destin et gravit tous les échelons. Elle devient la directrice de la fabuleuse bibliothèque du magnat J.P. Morgan et la coqueluche de l'aristocratie internationale, sous le faux nom de Belle da Costa Greene. Belle Greene pour les intimes. En vérité, elle triche sur tout.

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.

Melchor Marín, il poliziotto appassionato di libri con un passato da galeotto, dopo la morte della moglie Olga ha lasciato la divisa e lavora come bibliotecario a Gandesa, in Terra Alta. Con lui vive la figlia Cosette, ora adolescente, che non perdona al padre di averle nascosto per quattordici anni il vero motivo della morte di sua madre, causata dall’ostinazione di Melchor nel perseguire i colpevoli durante la sua prima indagine.

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.

La nuit, chacun la voit, la vit, la sent, l'apprivoise à sa manière. De celle de Guyane, trouée d'un faible lampadaire sous la lueur duquel, enfant, à la faveur de la moiteur et du silence, elle allait lire en cachette, à celle qui lui permettait de régler ses comptes avec les péchés capitaux que les religieuses lui faisaient réciter dans la journée, la nuit a souvent été, pour Christiane Taubira, une complice, une alliée, une sorte de sœur intime, un moment particulier.

Au XIXe siècle, Aimée, 18 ans, épouse Candre Marchère et s'installe au domaine de la Forêt d'Or. Très vite, elle se heurte au silence du riche propriétaire terrien du Jura et à la toute puissance de sa servante, Henria. Elle cherche sa place dans cette demeure hantée par le fantôme d'Aleth, la première épouse. Jusqu'au jour où Emeline, venue donner des cours de flûte, fait éclater ce monde clos.