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.

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...

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 ...

As Christmas comes to the west cost of Iceland, a corpse is found in a fish farming pond. Detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir and trainee Jakob Johanson barely have time to start their investigation before another body is discovered. And soon a third. While investigating the case, Hildur's lost sister weighs heavy on her mind. Meanwhile, Jakob travels to Finland for the hearing of his fraught custody battle, that leaves him facing dire consequences. As the number of deaths continues to grow, Hildur and Jakob are desperate to catch the killer before they strike again.

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 ...

'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...

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 ...

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.

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 standalone cases drag them into the darkest corners of Derry: You’ll Get Yours — A woman is found strangled and grotesquely displayed on ...

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 standalone cases drag them into the darkest corners of Derry: Three Times a Killer — A harmless vagrant is found dead, killed in three different ways...

Thirteen linked stories of the New West. Gritty, cool, dialogue driven. , The sympathetic, tough, and gritty characters will likely appeal to readers of Elmore Leonard, Richard Sharp, and George V. Higgins.

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 ...

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 ...

'A writer to reckon with.' The Irish Examiner Someone going missing is not an event in their life but an indicator of a problem. Detective Inspector Harriet Sloane is plagued by nightmares while someone from her past watches from a distance. In East Belfast, local four-year-old River, vanishes from his room. Sloane must put her own demons to bed and find the boy. Before it’s too late. REVIEWS 'The people, their places and everything they say is totally credible. Highly recommended.’ Books Ireland 'A novel of style and verve. The Sleeping Season is unapologetically feminist.' Sharon ...

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 ...

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, ...

Some pasts refuse to stay buried. Wayne and Phil thought they’d escaped the darkness of their childhood—until Tyrone, Wayne’s violent older brother and the source of their deepest scars, resurfaces with a vengeance. Years ago, Tyrone's cruelty left permanent marks. Now he's back, and he's not done with them yet. As old wounds reopen and long-buried secrets emerge, Wayne and Phil find themselves pulled back into a dangerous game of survival, forced to confront the past before it consumes them completely. Book One of the Phil Tyler Crime Thriller series, this gripping novel weaves ...

THE PSYCHICS HIDING IN BANYON CREEK NEVER SAW IT COMING. Their safe haven didn't just burn—it was erased. Only two survived. She has the gift—He has yet to discover his. 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, they must return to the ashes and follow a trail of buried secrets and quiet lies to the truth… Before their luck runs out. Before the past finishes what it started. Ghosts of Banyon Creek is a dark small-town thriller ...

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, ...