Noir Russian

Praise for Pattaya Heat: "IF YOU ENJOY OLD DETECTIVE STORIES, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS." "EXCELLENT BOOK AND A GREAT NEW DETECTIVE!" Welcome to Pattaya City, Thailand. This piss-poor paradise makes Las Vegas look like a PG-13 Disney movie. Pattaya is where Richy Sky has landed for a premature mid-life crisis. This is not where he wants to be, scraping by taking small-time PI jobs, mostly infidelity investigations. The fun, if you could call it that, can't last forever, and now Richy sees a way out -- a new job, one that pays very well. All he has to do is find a missing antique watch that's worth ...

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 ...

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - 30 years after its original publication - Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder. One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator.

Named one of the Top 30 Mystery Novels of 2022 by The Strand Magazine! Winner of the Silver Falchion Award for Best Mystery What would you do if you found a bone record—a black-market Soviet recording made on an X-ray? What if you found it at the site of your father’s murder? "A wonderfully flawed protagonist and a complex mystery combine with current events in Zahradnik's best novel to date. The Bone Records had me hooked from page one." —Elena Taylor, award-winning author of All We Buried and the Eddie Shoes mystery series Grigg Orlov only has a few minutes reunited with his missing...

He's a rugged, battle-hardened soldier who spent four years in the Royal Guard, an elite military unit. I met the king and queen for the first time wearing leggings and a sweatshirt. But there's the way he looks at me. Like he knows every dirty thought I've had about him - and he likes them. There's the way my pulse skyrockets every time his hand brushes mine. I'm the ambassador's daughter. I know better than to mess around with a foreign head of state.

In the heart of late winter's enchanting Saint Petersburg, my life takes an unexpected turn. At a lavish social event, I am abducted by the notorious Mikhail "Misha" Petrov, tearing me away from the warmth and opulence of my family's estate. As we travel through the snow-covered Russian landscape, I challenge Misha's motives and uncover a hidden strength within myself. Arriving at his luxurious mansion in Moscow, I brace myself for the trials ahead, unaware of the fiery passion that awaits us both. This captivating tale of love and danger will leave you breathless and yearning for more.

Nicolai Gogol's classic ghost story set in the streets of St. Petersburg in the 19th century.

A cursed luck coin flips San Francisco's supernatural underworld from rigged games to rigged graves—and Tony Mandolin's the only one sober enough to chase it. When a frustrated scientist turns up at Tony's office seeking his lost experiment, an artifact that bends probability like a cheap horseshoe, turning long shots into sure things and sure things into body bags, Tony wonders where he went wrong. When a corpse in the city morgue sits up and begins talking to the ME, Tony figures he needs some help finding this lucky coin. Now every cartel from the Triads to the Russian syndicates is ...

Dove, a recovering alcoholic covered in Emily Dickinson tattoos, serves up drinks and small talk at a casino in Vegas. Russell is a man on a roll. He claims to be a chain-restaurant manager, yet his tells point to different skills. The two leave together at the end of the night, but when all pretense is stripped away, they find themselves in a fight for their lives.

It begins at the end. Eli is dead—gunned down in a hail of bullets, framed for a crime he didn’t commit. But this isn’t where his story ends. It’s where it rewinds. In a world of cyber heists, mob wars, and covert betrayal, Echo spirals backward through time, peeling away each layer of Eli’s choices, until it lands at a single, pivotal moment: a phone call he didn’t answer. This time, he picks up. The second half of Echo charges forward from that one altered decision, hurtling through a parallel path of shifting loyalties and deadly consequences. But even with time on his side, ...

Vodka Express takes readers on a visceral journey into the raw and fractured heart of Saint Petersburg—a city where faded imperial grandeur clashes violently with the brutal realities of its present, where the mean streets hold life cheaper than a bottle of vodka. Amidst this stark duality, Inspectors Dmitri Petrov and Manislov Illich forge an unlikely yet formidable partnership. Petrov, a master of subtle observation in a world quick to resort to force, must navigate this treacherous urban landscape like a deadly chess match. Alongside him stands his imposing partner, Manislov Illich, a ...

Son ex est de retour… et il veut se venger. Mais que fera-t-il en découvrant la vraie raison pour laquelle elle l’a quitté… Et l’existence de leur bébé secret ? La vengeance est un plat qui se savoure... très chaud. L’oligarque russe Alexei Rustanov ne rêve que d’une chose : laisser son passé derrière lui, y compris Eva St. James, la Texane impertinente qui lui a brisé le cœur sans pitié à l’époque où il n’était encore qu’un pauvre étudiant en master. Mais quand il la croise à un mariage huit ans après leur rupture tumultueuse, les passions s’enflamment...

"John Wick" meets "The Day of the Jackal" in a deadly game of espionage and murder. Burke’s Hit Man is Book #9 in the Bob Burke thriller series, with 4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.7 stars from Goodreads. The Kremlin must have America's top-secret mega-laser weapon to avoid a humiliating defeat in Ukraine and to shore up its fading power. To steal the Laser prototype and the plans, they send their deadliest assassin—a fearless Georgian killer named Zuran Gelashvili. He's left a wispy trail from one end of Europe to the other of poisoned dissidents, mysterious bombings, and traffic accidents,...

Amidst the crumbling facades of a once vibrant city, the line between hunter and hunted blurs as private detective Johnny Walker plunges into a deadly game. Hired by a distraught Russian oligarch whose youngest daughter has vanished, Johnny soon discovers that the missing girl is merely a pawn in a much larger conspiracy. Her two stunning sisters, entwined in a web of family lies and secrets, become instrumental in unraveling a plot that stretches far beyond Portland's borders. Meanwhile, Detective Sandy Jenkins, Johnny's girlfriend, wages a relentless war against the city's escalating ...

Red Star: A Dmitri Petrov Crime Novel In the treacherous, shifting landscape of the Russian Federation's criminal underworld, rising star Viktor Vasilev is about to learn that some legends refuse to stay buried. One night, after leaving his exclusive nightclub, Vasilev is discovered unconscious in the parking lot—the victim of a brutal assault. While being transported to a hospital he keeps moaning the name of a famous Russian crime boss, Ded Hasan. What makes this truly intriguing to Chief Inspector Dmitri Petrov is that Ded Hasan, a notorious and revered crime boss, was assassinated ...

Russian Roulette: A Dmitri Petrov Crime Novel The call to Chief Inspector Dmitri Petrov comes as he is about to retire for the night. The Director of Major Crimes, his voice frantic with the news that four men were executed at one of Saint Petersburg's most upscale restaurants by a group of Chechens wielding AK-47s. But the victims were not well to do business leaders; they were high-ranking vory—powerful leaders of the biggest organized crime groups in the Russian Federation. The Director of Major Crimes, terrified of a brutal gang war erupting in the streets of Saint Petersburg, has a ...

« Je ne sais pas pourquoi je suis tellement obsédé par toi, Willa Harper. Ni pourquoi je n’arrive pas à me défaire de l’idée que nous soyons ensemble. Mais une chose est certaine : quoi qu’il tente de nous séparer… je te retrouverai. » — Sawyer Grant Abandonnée de la fac de médecine. Fille de la folle du coin. Et, oh oui, membre ultra secret du club Je peux voir les fantômes. La toute dernière chose dont Willa a besoin, c’est que Sawyer Grant — le beau sportif qui a rendu sa vie infernale au lycée — revienne dans sa vie en rugissant sur une Harley. Mais le ...

A Cuban drug dealer is shot to death in a Miami slum hotel. Within a few days, Russian mobsters turn up dead and soon, tensions are strung wire-tight all across the underworld of Miami and Hialeah. Author Don Donovan delivers the knockout punch in his final installment of the Miami Crime Trilogy, wrapping up this sprawling saga with an explosive tale of violence, retribution, and the darkest reaches of the human condition.

Один воспитанник сиротского приюта вырастает и мстит всем, кто его бросил. Одного изощренного вора крадет картина, которую он украл. Одна книга смотрит с полки на то, как один будущий нобелевский лауреат сходит с ума в день своего долгожданного триумфа. Один писатель сочиняет роман и грозит издателю покончить с собой, если книгу не напечатают. Один бывший солдат, уже совершенно лишившись рассудка, все не может забыть проигранную битву и гибель товарищей на поле боя.... Жауме Кабре (р.

Amidst the enchanting, perpetual twilight of Saint Petersburg's White Nights festival, a darker reality unfolds for Inspectors Dmitri Petrov and Manislov Illich. Their seemingly straightforward assignment--revisiting two long unsolved cold cases, soon uncovers a disturbing sequence of interconnected crimes. What began as routine soon takes a sinister turn, hinting that the truths they seek are far more perilous than they could imagine. An intricate and captivating mystery, it plunges readers into the heart of Saint Petersburg's hidden darkness. "With atmospheric prose and a sinister plot, ...