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 ...

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

BURKE’S TRAP, Book # 11 in the exciting Bob Burke Action-Thriller Series. When the hunter becomes the hunted. They came for him on a quiet Tuesday morning. Four FBI Suburbans, a Hostage Rescue Team in full tactical gear, and FBI agents with a federal arrest warrant charging retired Delta Force operator Bob Burke with selling classified weapons technology to the Russians. Bob Burke? West Point grad and Army Ranger? The Ghost? The evidence was airtight. The financial records, the wire transfers, the photographs had been meticulously constructed. They were forensically flawless and ...

🎬 For fans of Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, and Jack Reacher. A novel that feels like a cult movie — bold, explosive, and addictive from the first page. From 2025 to 1992... 💀 He died in 2025. A former cop woke up in California — in the body of a nineteen-year-old lawn guy. Now he’s got a second chance — in a world of perfect lawns, tanned smiles, and restless housewives with dangerous desires. ☀️ The sun burns hotter here. 🎸 The music’s louder. 🍹 The nights last forever. 🌃 But beneath the neon glow and polished chrome lies another side of California — where ...

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 ...

"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,...

Hollywood is hell on earth—and Dick Moonlight is about to discover just how deadly it can be. When private investigator Dick Moonlight and his professional Elvis impersonator sidekick, Fat Elvis, discover the severed head of a beautiful blonde beneath the floorboards of an unfinished luxury home, they uncover a nightmare buried beneath the glitter of Hollywood. The trail leads to a husband-and-wife construction team with dreams of becoming filmmakers. But they're not making romantic comedies. They're producing snuff films—and their next production could feature Fat Elvis. With Fat Elvis...

Twenty hours to disappear. One mistake could be fatal. Anastasia Pestova is a quiet teller at the Bank of Moscow, in a city that doesn't notice if she breathes. But when millions of rubles vanish through her terminal, she is suddenly the centre of a money laundering conspiracy. With authorities watching the gates, she has less than twenty hours to catch a ship to America. And she accidentally hitched a ride with a murderer.

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.

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.

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.

A cursed lucky 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 ...

With winter closing in, a desperate Russian fugitive turns to her ex-lover for help, only to find herself involved in a deeper nightmare. Her cover is blown, a corrupt Task Force Chief is hunting her for profit, and for the first time, there's no one left to lean on. To survive, she'll have to make a decision that will change her life forever—for better, or for worse.

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...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

« 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 ...

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 ...

From the author of The New Americans trilogy: THE BURNER HUSBAND—See what happens when a good man who deserves more decides to take it. Etcheverry maintains a breakneck pace from the first page through the last sentence, leaving the reader speechless and satisfied. Recently divorced, Ben Nelson is a talented builder with no skill for managing money or relationships but a keen eye for opportunity. Opportunities like Vika Solovenko, a war refugee who lost everything in Ukraine and gained nothing in Don Coleman, the poor excuse she married in Charlotte, North Carolina. She’ll do anything ...