Southern Noir

In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life—and Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth in this hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons...

The Akashic Noir series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’ most recognized neighborhoods.

Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island. Featuring a sneak peek of the next audiobook in the series, Ironwood. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing...

Mardi Gras has secrets. Like why would Felix's brother, a well-off and successful doctor, let the midnight train roll over him? Especially just as his new Carnival Krewe prepares for their inaugural parade? Felix has had an easy life, coasting by as the black sheep of a wealthy family. He spends his time under the green canopies of Uptown New Orleans, whiling away his days in leisure and mediocrity.

“An instant Southern noir classic” –S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thriller from New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins. A Memphis woman hires a PI to find her missing husband, only to discover that he is involved in a dangerous web of international...

A body in an alleyway. Blood on the accused. Witnesses to the crime. When a sleepy Georgian town is rocked by the brutal murder of the local prosecutor’s son, all the evidence points to one man: Marcus Brantley. His only hope rests in defense counsel, Ryan Noble, drawn back to the town he tried to forget by his mother’s cancer diagnosis. But Noble’s homecoming brings a case that could cost him everything. Unwelcome, outnumbered, and with the clock ticking, Noble must navigate a dangerous game of secrets and lies before time runs out—where hostility lurks behind every corner and he ...

Winner of the 2023 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Winner of the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award Winner of the 2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Award One of Vanity Fair’s Favorite Books of 2023 “A beautifully fearless contemplation.” –S. A. Cosby From award-winning writer...

When tech visionary Julian Yates is arrested for the brutal murder of his business rival, the evidence seems airtight—a damning video, financial motive, and a public feud gone too far. But defense lawyer Ryan Noble knows something’s off. The pieces don’t fit. It all seems too clean. As Noble digs deeper, he uncovers a web of deceit stretching from the heart of Georgia’s legal system to the dark corners of the internet. Behind the scenes, powerful interests are manipulating the truth—and Yates may be just another pawn in a far deadlier game. With corporate espionage, digital ...

After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt.

He vanished fifteen years ago. She’s about to find out he didn't just disappear. He was erased. If you crave heart-stopping suspense and a tough heroine who refuses to back down, this is your next addiction: ✅ From Hunted to Hunter: A heroine pushed to her absolute limit. ✅ High-Octane Survival: Action that erupts into a fight for life against man and nature. ✅ Atmospheric Setting: Immersive Louisiana heat, humidity, and hurricane fury. ✅ Deadly Conspiracies: A web of dark money and federal corruption. June Sawyer is drowning. In debt, in grief, and in the suffocating Louisiana ...

A rising star is murdered. A crusader is accused. And in a town built on secrets, the truth is the darkest thing of all. Rosie Beckett had a bright future—a political intern with charm, ambition, and a long list of admirers. But her life ends on a quiet Georgian backstreet, her body found shot and thrown into a dumpster behind a row of houses in small southern town, Brunswick. And standing at the center of it all is Jake Tully. The host of a popular anti-corruption podcast, Tully has spent years exposing the dark secrets of the powerful, earning him fans—but too many enemies to count. ...

Step beneath the Spanish moss and enter the humid, secret-laden world of Hawthorn House, rebranded as Beaufort Botanical Retreat. Saffron returns after twelve years, drawn back by the impending death of her godmother, the formidable matriarch Delaphina Duval. But the house, with its aged stucco and grand columns, is not merely a place of fading life; it echoes with the "sting of her mother's last harrowing screams" and is thick with unspoken truths. Saffron finds Delaphina frail but still commanding, surrounded by those vying for position or protecting their own interests. There's Jolie ...

Some shepherds feed on the flock. Along the I-75 corridor, a silver-haired preacher runs the revival circuit, bringing salvation to the desperate and the lost. Brother Mitchell Cross leads prayer circles at truck stops, baptizes sinners in remote rivers, offers "private counsel" to troubled young women seeking redemption. Some of those women come back different. Some don't come back at all. The lot lizards who work the highway know what he is. They've been warning each other for years: stay away from the man in the white van with the painted cross. But their whispers never reach anyone who ...

Family meant everything to Ayden Stratton. It always had even when he didn’t always allow it to show. Because of that, he understood the fury in Tobias Blaise’s eyes when they learned that his sister was their hometown's most recent crime victim...dragged out the backdoor of her restaurant despite every effort to stop her from being kidnapped. Fury didn’t begin to describe what he saw in his brother’s face. Cassidy Blaise might be Tobias’s sister, but she was Benjamin’s entire world. This Stratton Family saga will have you wondering what could possibly happen next. Keep some ...

K.T. Tomb introduces three new heroines: bounty hunters Roberta, Riley, and Ricki Vaughan. All sisters. And all tough as nails. When a new client hires the streetwise Vaughan sisters to find and recover a stolen diamond that’s worth millions, the recovery fee alone could save their struggling business. However, their new client refuses to call the police, so the sisters have to keep this case on the down low. And when the prime suspect turns up dead, things really start to heat up in the Deep South. When an unexpected event threatens more than the recovery of the one-of-a-kind gem, all ...

In the far south, a young girl goes missing, lost without trace in the wilderness beyond her remote family cottage. A year later, her father disappears in the exact same place. Then, nothing. At all. Eventually, the years grow over the grief. The decades wear away the questions and life flows past the forgotten tragedy. Until Finn moves into the abandoned home, looking for a fresh start.

Previously published as "Dirty South" by Darrell King. The game hasn’t changed, but the stakes just got a hell of a lot higher. In the sweat-soaked shadows of the Lowcountry, loyalty is a luxury no one can afford and the truth is buried deeper than a body in the marsh. For those surviving on the jagged edge of the streets, every move is a gamble and every breath is borrowed time. In this remastered edition of the underground classic, the world of the Dirty South is stripped down to its rawest form. From the high-tension maneuvers in the dark to the atmospheric weight of a city that never ...

Set in a small town in the mountains of North Georgia, Though I Walk tells the story of twenty-one-year-old Anna Renfro who discovers that her twin sister, Sam, has gone missing. Anna had escaped Marble Hill—colloquially named “Meth Hill”—and is away at college when she learns of her sister’s disappearance. Anna drops everything and immediately returns home to find her family and the police investigation in disarray. Her mother, Jenny, copes by getting drunk and using dope, while her meth cooking and dealing Uncle Brokeback uses violence and intimidation to look for Sam on his own...

Some say vampires came to America through New Orleans. Many believe they are still there. When French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas is hired by the Greater Archdiocese of New Orleans to investigate a possible satanic ceremony that may have occurred at the Old Ursuline Convent, he soon learns that more is involved than Satan, The platform where the ceremony allegedly occurred is possibly a satanic altar placed in the convent by a secret society for the specific purpose of devil worship. The Order of the Blood, an offshoot of Freemasonry, has a centuries-old secret guarded by ...

Life was never going to be the same again…friends had become family and strangers became friends…all in the midst of a storm like no other and the aftermath that no one could have ever predicted. Jess and Max find their relationship takes an unexpected and life-changing turn…Brian decides on a risky mission that no one can talk him out of…and Sara struggles with the knowledge that among those responsible for the terror of the last year are a few who have ties to the tragedy in her past that is never far from her thoughts.After the Storm is the final book in the ongoing story of ...