North Noir

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times A dead man in a schoolyard. A diamond in his mouth. A Mystery that goes back decades. Two rival crime gangs—the Shiners and the Travellers—are already on the brink of war when a body is found hanging from a schoolyard fence. Detective Frank Yakabuski is called in to investigate and immediately identifies the dead man. It’s Agustus Morrissy, leader of the Shiners. In retaliation, the Shiners soon murder a high-ranking Traveller and kidnap the twelve-year-old granddaughter of the ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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...

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times A missing student. A fortune in stolen diamonds. A page-turning heist mystery. When a fortune in stolen diamonds is rumored to be buried off Mission Road—an old logging trail deep in the Northern Divide—people flood the area, setting up camps and chasing dreams of striking it rich. Then, one of the fortune hunters disappears. Detective Frank Yakabuski is called in to investigate. But what begins as a search quickly turns into something far more dangerous. It's not just a missing person....

“My favorite Leonard book….He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue.” —Dallas Morning News “The best writer of crime fiction alive.” —Newsweek Dangerously eccentric characters...

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 ...

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times Book Review When seventeen-year-old Meaghan McKenna's mother drowns in the Springfield River, police call it an accident. Meaghan knows better. So does Detective Frank Yakabuski. The suspicious death pulls Yakabuski and his partner, Donna Griffin, into something far more dangerous than a tragic drowning. It's murder. And the killer has been hiding in plain sight for decades. Their investigation soon reveals a dark corner of the Northern Divide — a place where colonial-era land disputes, ...

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times High on the Northern Divide, a family has been murdered in their remote cabin. Detective Frank Yakabuski is sent to investigate. But in Ragged Lake — a near-abandoned mill town where secrets run deeper than the snowdrifts — no one is talking. When a sudden winter storm cuts off all roads, Yakabuski gathers the remaining townspeople in a remote fishing lodge. Trapped together, tensions rise. The line between witness and suspect begins to blur. And the body count isn't finished. An action...

'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...

“Corbett’s work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we cans see why.” — New York Times Book Review A brutal murder. Four silent suspects. A past that won't let go. It was the case that started it all. A young cop named Frank Yakabuski is sent to Muskie Falls, high on the Northern Divide, wherre a man no one mourns has been beaten to death behind a run-down hotel. Four suspects. All of them were there that night. No one is talking. As the investigation stalls, Yakabuski finds himself pulled deeper into a mystery that refuses to break. But someone else is watching from ...

A Small-Town Northern Noir Mystery. Private investigator Jimmy Favreaux just wanted a peaceful vacation in the northern Minnesota lake country. But the moment he unpacks at the Twin Pines Resort, the past comes calling. In the deep woods of Itasca County, loyalty is everything and secrets are currency. When a body is found on the north end of Bass Lake, Jimmy and Wendi are pulled into a collision of greed and justice that proves you can never truly go home again. The cost of survival is high, and the bill is finally coming due. The Blue Bridge Mysteries go north in this pulse-pounding tale ...

THE BRILLIANT THIRD BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING HILDUR SERIES, SOON TO BE A TV SHOW! 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...

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.

Introduction Lake County has always known how to keep its dead quiet. From the surface, the land offers itself as something almost holy. Clearlake shining beneath a hard California sky. Cobb Mountain rising in dark timber and volcanic stone. Highway 29 winding through vineyards, trailer parks, convenience stores, abandoned motels, and forgotten roads that vanish into pine shadow and red clay. It is a place where beauty and ruin occupy the same frame, where a person can look across the water at sunset and almost believe the county has forgiven itself. But the land remembers differently. ...

THE BRILLIANT FOURTH BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING HILDUR SERIES, SOON TO BE A TV SHOW! 1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, it's not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy...

Oprah.com raved that Asa Larsson's Rebecka Martinsson is a crime fighter who has all the needed gut insticts," and listed the series as "Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read." In Until Thy Wrath Be Past the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne, in the far north of Sweden...

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.

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 ...