North Noir

Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still lurk. Featuring brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan.

He doesn’t scare easy. He doesn’t back down. And this time, the victims can’t even speak for themselves. Private Investigator Jim Knighthorse is used to messy cases, but this one takes the prize. Heidi Mann is convinced her missing boyfriend was murdered by shark poachers. Not just any poachers, but the worst kind: the ones who use live animals as bait. When Mitch Golden’s body turns up shot and dumped in the ocean, Jim’s left to untangle a web of threats, smuggling, and cold-blooded greed stretching from California’s piers to Mexico’s backwater docks. But local cops don’t ...

Forget Scandi-noir. Welcome to Derry-noir. DI Liam McLaughlin leads a scrappy crew in the Major Investigation Team of the Police Service of Northern Ireland: DS Nancy D’Arcy, a sharp-edged upstart with something to prove; DC Tom Lyons, a self-styled ladies’ man running on charm and denial; DC Fern Hawkins, a tech savant who sees what others miss and DC Henry “Hens” Cahill, the rookie still learning when to speak and when to run. Two chilling cases drag them into the darkest corners of Derry: You’ll Get Yours — A woman is found strangled and grotesquely displayed on the city ...

Mexican drug cartels. Las Vegas kidnappers. Skilled Kremlin assassins. Three enemies who make the same fatal mistake: they come for Bob Burke's family and friends. It’s a mistake you only make once. Do you like a good action-adventure series? Binge read Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Lee Child? If you’re a fan of Mitch Rapp, Scot Harvath, Jack Ryan, the Grayman, Jack Reacher, or Mark Dawson’s Milton, you’ll love this Boxed Book Set. These are Books 7-9 of the Bob Burke ACTION Thriller Series, the one that readers can't stop talking about, with 1400+ pages and 4.6+ Stars on Amazon and ...

Winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing Acclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (The Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them...

Fired from his longtime job as captain of the Coal Patrol, two-foot-three-inch, 1,300-year-old elf Gumdrop Coal is angry. He's one of Santa's original elves, inspired by the fat man's vision to bring joy to children on that one special day each year. But somewhere along the way, things went sour for Gumdrop. Maybe it was delivering one too many lumps of coal for the Naughty List. Maybe it's the conspiracy against Christmas that he's starting to sense down every chimney.

'This novel stands successfully on its own, its characters fleshed out and in full possession of their idiosyncrasies — all magnificently conveyed by narrator Steve Worsley...He captures perfectly the novel’s dark wit and the region’s pugnacity, bringing a sense of festivity to the police...

BANYON CREEK DIDN'T JUST BURN—IT WAS ERASED. Only two survived. They tried to move on. They tried to forget. But some places don’t stay dead. Now the same hands that lit the match are back to finish the job—and the survivors are the loose ends. To stop them, the two must return to the ashes and follow a trail of cold tells to the truth… before their luck runs out, and the past finishes what it started. Read the Sample and Buy Now

Forget Scandi-noir. Welcome to Derry-noir. DI Liam McLaughlin leads a scrappy crew in the Major Investigation Team of the Police Service of Northern Ireland: DS Nancy D'Arcy, a sharp-edged upstart with something to prove; DC Tom Lyons, a self-styled ladies' man running on charm and denial; DC Fern Hawkins, a tech savant who sees what others miss and DC Henry "Hens" Cahill, the rookie still learning when to speak and when to run. Two chilling cases drag them into the darkest corners of Derry: Three Times a Killer — A harmless vagrant is found dead, killed in three different ways. As the ...

Some people just can’t avoid danger. Lately, American expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen has been one of them. A year ago, Glenn and his close friends from Bangkok’s mysterious NJA Club were drawn into a CIA plot to kidnap a Russian gangster. They succeeded and survived, thinking life was back to normal. When a sleazy grifter from Glenn’s past appears in Bangkok, Glenn and the NJA gang are dragged back into a dangerous world, this one filled with North Korean drug dealers, spies, and hitmen. Follow Glenn and his colorful friends as they face bullets, deceit, and love. Suspense with a ...

When the syndicate's money is taken, the bagman follows Joey Hendrick to the Shiretown. Houlton, Maine.

Ray Spalding's had enough of his wife, Paula. He's left his home in Edinburgh's Southside and headed for Belfast. It's safer there. Unknown to Ray, Paula's also had enough of him. She's not going back home. Not now, not ever. Jesse Spalding wakes up one morning to find both his parents gone. And he can't tell anyone or he'll be taken into care. As time passes and bills need paying, all Jesse can rely on are his wits, his friend Archie and his dad's 1950s record collection. Southsiders is a powerful short novel that follows the spiralling fortunes of Ray and Jesse, pushing father and son to ...

If you woke up with a gun in your face, what would you do? LOOSE ENDS thrusts a wise-cracking PI into the center of a deadly—and highly personal—case. LOOSE ENDS features private investigator Simon Wolfe, who also stars in the full-length book NIGHT AT KEY WEST.

They made a pact to survive. Someone's using it to kill them. Six retired Belfast dockworkers and their wives spent forty years hauling cargo for poverty wages. When automation took their jobs, their pensions weren't enough to live on. So they made a deal: when one of them dies, hide the body, forge the paperwork, keep collecting. Split the money between whoever's left. It worked for fifteen years. Now the survivors are dying—and not from old age.DS Rose Gallagher investigates what begins as pension fraud and becomes serial murder. Each death looks like an accident. Each victim is a ...

Cartelli della droga messicani. Rapitori di Las Vegas. Abili assassini del Cremlino. Tre nemici che commettono lo stesso errore fatale: prendono di mira la famiglia e gli amici di Bob Burke. È un errore che si commette solo una volta. Ti piacciono le serie di azione e avventura? Ti piacciono Brad Thor, Vince Flynn e Lee Child? Se sei un fan di Mitch Rapp, Scot Harvath, Jack Ryan, Grayman, Jack Reacher o Milton di Mark Dawson, adorerai questo cofanetto. Si tratta dei libri 7-9 della serie thriller d'azione Bob Burke, quella di cui i lettori non smettono di parlare, con oltre 1400 pagine e ...

Six days before Baer Creighton cut down a cabal of dogfighters, a 16-year-old girl disappeared while walking home from school in Asheville, North Carolina. Witnesses later claimed they saw her in the back of a police car. Twenty-five years before that, an illegal fireworks plant blew up in Benton, Tennessee, killing 11, and raining M100 firecrackers over half a county. A few days later, a 13-year-old boy learned his highest calling was murder.

The Church moved him. The law forgot him. Someone remembered.When a defrocked priest is found dead in his Belfast flat, the scene is disturbing but the reaction is muted. Father Dermot Quinn abused seventeen children. Spent thirty years escaping justice. Lived on a Church pension until someone arranged him like a saint awaiting judgment—candles lit, rosary threaded through his fingers, psalm open at his head.DS Rose Gallagher knows murder when she sees it. And when a second priest appears—same staging, same history, same escape from accountability—she knows she's hunting someone with ...

In pursuit of revenge, former French commando Rene Roccard embarks on a cause to assassinate underground leader Ruben Um that takes him from New York to Europe and Africa. Relentless on his heels is veteran American journalist Clement Coulther as they join a motley bunch in a journey of love and betrayal, fear and hope, damnation and salvation, war and death, redemption, and peace. Rene leads the bloody campaign by the Franco-Cameroonian army against the Ruben-inspired rebellion, a dirty war steals the innocence of bright-eyed Gavin by exposing the child to a world of power, glory, money, ...

THE RACE IS ALMOST RUN As the relentless race hurtles toward its climactic finale, a singular, all-encompassing question emerges, casting a looming shadow of uncertainty over the impending showdown: When Detective Superintendent Ian Wilson squares off against the enigmatic Circle, will the final confrontation deliver a mortal blow to one or both of these formidable adversaries? In the twelfth installment of the electrifying Wilson Series, the narrative reaches its zenith. The anticipation is palpable as the suspense builds to an almost unbearable crescendo. In a world where secrets, ...

Teesside keeps its secrets. Until the tide brings them back When the body of a young woman is discovered beneath the iron-grey waves off Redcar, DI Kazmier Bennison knows the case will cut deep — not just for the town, but for him. The victim isn’t a stranger. She’s one of the many who slipped through society’s cracks — another lost girl nobody wanted to see. As Kaz and his team fight to unravel the network of control and violence that hides in Teesside’s backstreets, he comes face to face with the darkest side of humanity — and the limits of his own. But one woman still ...