Noir True Crime

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

On a chilly Monday morning in 1935, a young maid opened the garage door of a Southern California seaside villa onto a grim scene. Her employer, a popular motion picture comedienne, lay dead in the front seat of her expensive automobile. Within hours, the news of Thelma Todd’s death was making headlines throughout the nation. Was it murder, suicide, or accident? Cast against the background of Hollywood and Los Angeles, the film industry and the growing metropolis, her death baffled both the public and the investigating authorities. After numerous attempts to solve the mystery over the last...

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.

When you can’t hear…death comes silently. Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world. When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives. A stunning, claustrophobic, “...

A true crime podcast sets a trophy wife's present life on a collision course with her secret past in this "blazingly intense" Reese Witherspoon book club pick and New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year (A. J. Finn). The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life exploded started off like...

True stories of murder, manslaughter and madness in on of America's most exclusive communities.

In this heart-pounding thriller and sequel to the Reese Witherspoon book club pick Conviction, Anna and Fin find themselves on another breathtaking chase across Europe—and another race to save their own lives. Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. Anna McDonald has made a...

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...

A reporter dead at the marina. A mayor in the hospital. A retraction nobody read. When investigative journalist Denny Marsh is found beaten to death and Mayor Elias Brandt becomes the prime suspect, podcaster Kara Ellison knows a frame when she sees one. The deeper she digs, the more she discovers a small-town conspiracy that's been running for twenty-two years—in a place nobody thought to look. Things hiding in plain sight are the ones you never see. Fatal Edition. The fourth Kara Ellison Mystery.

What readers are saying about Red Flags: "A delicious cat and mouse game that had me on the edge of my seat." — Goodreads Reviewer ★★★★★ "I couldn't stop reading. It was so good." — Goodreads Reviewer ★★★★★ "The twists left me speechless." — Goodreads Reviewer ★★★★★ Everyone calls her paranoid. She calls it survival. Megan Wells is a true crime junkie who knows the anatomy of a killer. While her city obsesses over the hit docuseries The Mind of a Killer, Megan isn't just watching for entertainment—she is watching for a monster. When Jared Adams starts ...

‘OMG THAT ENDING!!!!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review Is murder in the blood? In a sleepy Devon village, a woman is taken from the streets. Local vet Jenny is horrified. This kind of thing doesn’t happen here. But it’s not the first time she’s been so close to a crime scene. The daughter...

Mike Gatto was an up-and-coming young lawmaker when his father was brutally murdered. The act sucked him into the world of noir: wild theories, intransigent detectives, and unimaginable violence.

The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity—its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history—is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th anniversary. From real crime to serial...

He was a cop. She was his daughter. One of them wasn’t walking away. James Bradford wore the badge in St. Isidore for thirty-five years. He broke up bar fights, kept the town quiet—and never once had to draw his weapon. Until the night his daughter came home. Amanda Petrocelli’s got a record longer than Main Street, a husband with blood on his hands, and two kids caught in the middle. When they show up armed and angry, James doesn’t call for backup. He goes for the gun safe. In a town where loyalty is currency and regret comes due at midnight, this is one cop’s last stand—...

Based on true events, PERMANENCE, is a dark, "Hitchcockian" literary tour-de-force about Mary Kismet, a woman who is holding onto a deep dark secret too painful and startling to reveal. Now, having isolated herself from the world, she attempts to break away from her demons by immersing herself, body and soul, into a passionate and erotic love affair with her psychiatrist. From NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author, Vincent Zandri, comes a story with an unforgettable climax. Called "hauntingly beautiful" by bOOk R3vi3ws, PERMANENCE is a tragic novel of obsession, dark compulsions, ...

A car thief. A trafficked woman. A violent neo-Nazi skinhead. Palm Springs will never be the same. 1993, Southern California. Skip Barker is a down-and-out punk rocker turned car thief, just trying to outrun bad decisions in a stolen Porsche when he hears a noise in the trunk. What he finds isn't anything he could have expected. It's Vesna Petrovic, a terrified mail-order bride from Yugoslavia, bound and desperate. She crossed the world to marry one man, only to end up trapped in the trunk of another man's car. Now Skip isn't just running from the cops. He's running from Dragan, a violent ...

The mayor had a mistress, a wife who knew too much, and a secret he’d kill to keep. When a body turns up at a sleazy motel on the edge of town, the whole rotten heart of St. Isidore starts to bleed. The cops want it buried. The mayor wants it forgotten. But someone’s talking—and the truth has a nasty habit of crawling into the light. She was beautiful, dangerous, and smarter than any man in the room. He was powerful, cornered, and ready to make a deal with the devil. His wife? Cold as ice and twice as deadly. Lust. Lies. And one hell of a mess. This isn’t politics. This is The Case ...

One Toast. One Body. One Very Dangerous Truth. When a guest collapses at a wedding reception hosted by true-crime podcaster Kara Ellison, the death looks like a heart attack. It isn't. The poisoning of Fred Palmer pulls Kara into the most dangerous investigation of her career — one that reaches back six years to the prison death of billionaire sex trafficker Marlin Steingard, and forward to a conspiracy involving politicians, intelligence operatives, and people powerful enough to make federal investigations disappear. Someone wants the truth buried. Someone else wants to steal it. And all...

Arabelle's beloved town matriarch, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, is snatched from her car, held for ransom, and propped up to the sympathy of thousands online. Her leaked ransom video might have been enough to placate the headline-starved, but for the endlessly bored detective, Robert Ellery, the ticking time-bomb, Alice Daniels, and for Mrs. Thomas herself, a simple headline could never unfurl the secrets they keep from the lies they tell. There is far more to this story than meets the eye. There is more to the dueling towns of affluent, picturesque Arabelle and impoverished, crime-riddled Wood's...

Like a hunter who capitalizes on a stocked preserve, some of today’s most vile criminals prey upon the digitally vulnerable. But when a sinister method of cyber-turned-real crime manifests in Special Agent Diamond’s jurisdiction, she’ll do whatever it takes to keep her city safe, shut down the illicit debauchery, and turn the hunters into the hunted… even if it means losing the one she loves. A body surfaces in the strangest of places—Midtown Manhattan in broad daylight—and there aren’t many clues left behind. Then, another is found, and then a third. There’s something about...