North Noir Mystery

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 ...

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 ...

'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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In "Frostbitten Secrets: Unmasking the Architect," join detective Nora Larsen as she witness her race against time to unmask the elusive Architect and bring him to justice before he strikes again. Then, venture to the "Whispers of Vágar: Unveiling the Faroese Enigma" where detective Haldur Johansen must confront his own demons as he unravels a series of chilling murders, each with a cryptic symbol that holds the key to the town's dark past. Finally, set sail on a perilous voyage in "The Phantom Passenger: Voyage of Shadows," where a mysterious figure haunts the decks of a ferry.

IN THE HEART OF DANGER, SECRETS UNRAVEL AND DESTINIES COLLIDE Detective Superintendent Ian Wilson finds himself the target of a deadly vendetta. As he grapples with the looming threat to his life, the unsettling backdrop of Belfast sees the sudden disappearance of two gay men, a chilling mystery that sets the stage for a series of events with far-reaching consequences. Meanwhile, Detective Rory Browne, driven by a personal connection to the case of the missing men, becomes entangled in a perilous web that could make him the next victim of a cunning serial killer. With each step into the ...

When the granddaughter of a prominent North Dakota state senator goes missing from her hometown, law enforcement has a couple leads on out-of-state roughneck oil workers - but with the holidays approaching and the trail growing cold, each day that passes decreases the chances that she will ever come home. Reporter Cooper Smith is chasing a story about the Bakken oil industry for Minnesota Public Radio when he learns that the missing woman is his wife's best friend. Leaving the story behind, he puts his investigative skills to work to help rescue her.

Just released from prison, Trip Walker’s hopes for a fresh start are shattered after finding his twin sister Rose has vanished without a trace. Determined to uncover the truth, Trip plunges into the dark past he left behind, only to find powerful forces are also hunting for Rose—with sinister intentions. Dodging hired killers and crooked cops, he races to find his sister, all while uncovering secrets of his own family’s past. With time running out and enemies closing in, Trip faces an impossible choice: abandon his search, or risk everything—including his newfound freedom—for the ...

A good deed turns deadly… When Trip Walker, a PI-in-training with a troubled past, rescues a young man with special needs from kidnappers, he’s thrust into a dangerous game. What starts as a simple good deed quickly spirals into a maze of deceit, greed, and violence that threatens to consume them both. Trip soon discovers that Reggie, the young man he saved, stands at the center of a vicious family feud. To protect Reggie and uncover the truth, Trip must navigate a minefield of shifting alliances and hidden agendas. But in this high-stakes game, everyone seems determined to use Reggie ...

His worst enemy becomes his last hope… When Trip Walker’s nemesis, Eddie, survives a brutal attack, Trip is blindsided by Eddie’s bombshell revelation: the person behind the attempted murder is Rose—Trip’s sister. Driven to confront the shocking truth, he must delve into her hidden past, placing him in the crosshairs of a violent gang she once called friends. And with the police circling and old enemies holding grudges, Trip confronts a deadly dilemma. He’s forced to team up with Eddie and his ruthless crew, all while knowing they could betray him at any moment. Caught between ...