Noir Dark Crime

In this thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.​ Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat—known in LAPD...

Love leaves roses. Power leaves bodies. In Saint James Black Parish, Valentine’s Day ends in blood. Kwame Mensah — financier, kingmaker, the untouchable “Golden Banker of the Apex” is discovered butchered in a hidden Basin apartment, his hands removed with surgical precision, a silver hatchet gleaming like a signature beside him. By sunrise, the city has already decided who must fall. His wife. Chloe Mensah married into a dynasty built on couture, currency, and quiet brutality. Now she stands at the center of a scandal that reeks of ritual murder and resurrects the Woodshed Homicide...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU CAN'T MISS! The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? “A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive...A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night.” —Mary Kubica, New York...

From bestselling author Britney King comes a razor-sharp psychological thriller about a street built on secrets, a neighbor who knows too much, and the woman who learns—too late—that the most dangerous lies are the ones everyone else is willing to believe. “You’d be surprised how easy it is to disappear someone.” That’s what Clint says. Always with a smile. Always like a joke. But Nora knows better—jokes don’t leave bodies. Nora Givens runs the salon where the cul-de-sac comes to confess. She knows who’s day-drinking, whose marriage is composting under the patio lights, ...

The first in an exciting new series of Scandi Noir thrillers featuring Detective Frida Skardet from the author of the Cold Secrets series, Tom Quiller. Pre-book the first in the NORSE KRIMOLOGI strand now. THE MURDER OF INFANTS SEEMS TO BE CHILDSPLAY FOR THIS KILLER When a child dies during its baptism, it is the first move in a deadly game of cat and mouse for Detective Frida Skardet, newly arrived in Trondheim with a limp from an encounter with Russian agents (picked up in the Sam Tilson espionage thriller, Heaven's First Law), her teenage son, and a lot of mental baggage. What people are...

When marine archaeologist Owen Marsh is found dead on the Cornish coast, DS Jack Penrose has one detail that won't leave him alone. Divers in distress shed their gear. This one didn't. The post-mortem confirms it. The tank valve was deliberately tampered with. Someone who knew exactly what they were doing. Owen had just made the discovery of his career — a Spanish galleon off St Petroc Head, four hundred years on the seabed, commercially priceless. And he had filed the legal protection in his own name. The case against the prime suspect is solid, then it falls apart entirely. Now Penrose ...

A prominent politician is dead on the cobbled streets of Lagos, and the city’s mourning is as heavy as a shroud. Detective Ayo Okafor is the lone figure moving through a sea of downcast souls, tasked with solving a murder that the powerful would rather see buried. In a city where the sun fights a never-ending battle to pierce the narrow alleyways, Ayo's own past is the greatest liability to his investigation. He is a man haunted by a family tragedy and a tarnished reputation, trying to uphold a legacy of justice in a precinct where the walls have ears and the air thickens with intrigue. ...

Every Polaroid tells a lie. And every lie demands blood. Rain falls. Hymns echo. A killer arranges bodies like artwork and leaves Polaroids behind—ritualistic, intimate, and taunting. No fingerprints. No witnesses. Only a whistle in the dark and a message no one can decipher. Then Tobias Reddick steps into the case.

A deliciously dark and twisty psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and The Last Mrs Parrish. Amanda Kensington is trapped in a marriage to a charming, dangerous man. He’s told her he’ll kill her before he’ll divorce her – and she believes him...

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times A dead man in a schoolyard. A diamond in his mouth. A Mystery that goes back decades. Two rival crime gangs—the Shiners and the Travellers—are already on the brink of war when a body is found hanging from a schoolyard fence. Detective Frank Yakabuski is called in to investigate and immediately identifies the dead man. It’s Agustus Morrissy, leader of the Shiners. In retaliation, the Shiners soon murder a high-ranking Traveller and kidnap the twelve-year-old granddaughter of the ...

From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive...

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.

His protection has a price. And I'll pay for it in bed. A night out with my best friend turns into something deadly. And I wind up in the crossfire of two rival MC’s. Preacher saves me. He's a soldier for the Wayward Kings Motorcycle Club. He’s brutal. A killer. And he's in town for a little payback. Preacher’s six feet and change of tattooed terror and he's got his sights set on me. I know he’s trouble. I know he’s dangerous. I should run away and never look back. But his voice sets my body on fire. His touch makes me beg for more. He acts like he owns me. I can’t walk away. ...

Memories are fragile. Some fade. Others are stolen. And a few return to haunt you like a killer’s shadow. On a rain-soaked night in Greybridge, a man wakes with no idea how he got there—or why the news is showing his scarred face as the suspect in a string of brutal murders. A cryptic message on a disposable phone points him toward a place he’s not sure he wants to find. Every street corner, every shadow, every stranger’s glance could be the key to survival… or the trap that ends it all. Driven by fractured memories and hunted by a city that wants answers, he is forced to confront...

From Michael Crichton Creator of Jurassic Park, ER, Twister, Rising Sun, and Disclosure Writing as John Lange Comes a new Hollywood mystery thriller, originally written in 1973 by Crichton but never before published, that will keep you guessing until the very end. In the glitz and decadence...

From bestselling author Britney King comes a hypnotic and terrifying psychological thriller about a man held hostage in a remote location by the “love of his life”—aka the woman he refuses to marry. She only wants one thing: for him to love her the way he used to. When her boyfriend hesitates to propose—and then cheats instead of leaving—she decides the relationship needs structure. Space. Consequences. A reset. Retreating to an isolated house in the countryside feels like the responsible choice. A place where distractions disappear and commitment can finally take root. He ...

He has spent three years curating a life he didn't earn, built on a secret he cannot afford to lose. Three years ago, Trevor drove away from the wreckage that killed Savannah. He didn't look back then, and he has spent every day since trying to edit the memory out of existence. He has a new life now—a cottage, a partner, Francine, and a child on the way—all meticulously managed to keep his past from bleeding into his present. But the past has a name, and it is Rose. Savannah’s sister hasn't come for an apology; she has come to dismantle the life Trevor created after Savannah’s death...

A murder in a coastal town. A cop with a wrecked moral compass. And a conspiracy that doesn’t stay buried. Cold Tide is the gripping first installment in the Seaside Confidential series — a gritty LGBTQ+ crime thriller with a flawed lesbian lead, razor-sharp tension, and slow-burn emotional depth. Chief Ellie Cook drinks too much, pops pills she won’t admit she’s addicted to, and avoids intimacy like it’s an open flame. She’s holding Seaside, Oregon’s police department together by a thread — until a beloved teacher’s body washes up on the beach in an apparent suicide. ...

1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Then one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couples may not have been alone on the fjord after all. In nearby Siglufjörður, young policeman Ari Thór tries to piece together what really happened that fateful night, in a town where no one wants to know, where secrets are a way of life. Things take a sinister turn when a child goes missing in broad daylight.

Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland. Ari Thór Arason is now a police inspector, but he’s separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before Easter, a 19-year-old local girl falls to her death from the balcony of a house on the main street. A perplexing entry in her diary suggests that this may not be an accident.