English Detective Noir

In Burning Midnight, master of the hard-boiled detective novel Loren D. Estleman gives listeners a hot new Amos Walker mystery.Amos Walker knows Detroit, from the highest to the lowest, and that includes the gangs of Mexicantown. When a friend asks Walker to get his son's brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs, Walker gets in trouble fast. First, dead bodies start to pile up; then come suspicious fires and the bottle bombs. Walker is caught in the middle of a gang war.

In All Monsters, Dane Curse’s very first short story, a young woman’s been kidnapped by unknown assailants, and if the former super villain turned PI doesn’t find her before the sun comes up, she’ll succumb to a deadly illness. But nothing’s ever easy, or straight-forward, in Gold Coast City. Especially when the dame’s a wealthy heiress, her father is one of the most powerful men in town, and the main suspect is a crime boss with the knack for killing capes. Add that to a mysterious motive, missing art, and a cadre of criminals, and it’s a nearly impossible task… Will Dane ...

Cillian Goodknight is a man blessed with many talents. A Yale and Harvard graduate with a degree in law, he has intellect and education. One of five children to inherit the Goodknight Oil Company, he is blessed with wealth. He has charm and a flair for words and wit. He seemingly has it all, except for one major flaw. What Goodknight doesn’t have is height. He stands just four-foot-four-inches tall, well below the minimum height for military service when World War Two broke out. However, his education qualified him for Army Intelligence and he spent the war years in Europe, gathering ...

An ex-New York detective, now working as a freelance investigator in London, Thomas Blume hunts for the killers that tore his family apart. For justice, for closure, for revenge. But when Blume stumbles across a case that baffled police, he unwittingly becomes part of a world full of criminals, thugs, and corrupt cops that will do anything to stop him. Now, in a country he doesn't understand and a city stacked against him, Blume must fight to expose the truth.

Noir contains three classic thrillers by Richard Matheson, the grand master of suspense. Originally published in the 1950s, at the very beginning of Matheson’s distinguished career, these page-turning classics are finally on audio for your listening pleasure. Now listeners everywhere can savor three unforgettable tales of crime, corruption, and cold-blooded murder.

What are the odds of three serial killers working in the same college town? Astronomical. Unless two of them are twin brothers! The third is someone they hire to do maintenance at their nursing homes. A match made in hell! Using a pandemic's death toll as a cover, the brothers, who know a good thing when they see one, use their new hire to help them with their murderous insurance and "legacy" scheme. But they did not count on an idealistic -- and suspicious -- young woman. “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY....

A BEAUTIFUL INTERNATIONAL ASSASSIN STALKS THE WORLD'S MOST-POPULAR THRILLER WRITER! One author has already been savagely slain. Sebastian Quimper fears he will be next. With good reason. The police have a threatening letter. It claims terrorists will seek revenge because the famous Quimper “insulted” Islam in one of his books! The literary superstar will be the featured speaker at a conference in Manhattan. The N.Y.P.D. will be out in force to protect him. But Quimper’s publishers are still nervous. He sells millions of books and is the key to a huge publishing merger – if he stays ...

A mad neuroscientist’s attempt to extract memories from a murder victim’s dead brain unravels an international conspiracy. Frank Kirk, an Ex-Army Ranger, has settled into his new life as a NJ State Police homicide detective when he encounters a perplexing case of a truck driver’s assassination. The few clues as they are seem to point to a professional hitman with military background. Frank doggedly pursues the case but finds there are far more powerful forces adamant on stopping him at all cost including setting a team of tier one rabid mercenaries on his tail. Frank will need all his...

From Edgar and Nero Award Nominee Al Lamanda. John Bekker is called back to action when his close friend Sheriff Jane Morgan seeks his help with a perplexing mystery. Norman Felton, a resident of Midnight Island, drove his car to the mainland county high school and, in an out-of-control rage, beat an exchange student nearly to death with a baseball bat before being shot by sheriff's deputies. Felton's fourteen-year-old daughter Amanda is missing, and with each passing day the odds of finding her grow slimmer. Bekker works around the clock ferreting out details until slowly the puzzle comes ...

All Gus wanted to do was take a day trip up to the big city to get away from his constituents. However, some constituents are harder to avoid than others. He inadvertently bumps into Father Xavier while at an antique show. Neither this chance meeting or Gus’s appraisal are the worst thing to happen to the sheriff while out of town, because the other thing that’s hard for him to avoid is getting involved in a murder case. When one of the big winners at the antique show turns up dead it’s up to Gus to figure out who the murderer is. With the Father’s help, can Gus sort out the clues ...

Five days before Christmas, 2019, Private Detective Frederick Falloy must help the Hollywood actress, Snow, escape from being a target of Russian spies battling for power amongst themselves on the streets of Chicago. He finds a secret drop site using a map in a box labeled with a mysterious symbol. It also includes a key, but he cannot figure out what all the pieces mean until after there have been more murders. His friends become entangled in his client’s mess as the lead spy vies for power, using anyone who crosses his path for his plan to oust the source. Meanwhile, Snow’s friend, ...

Former US Marine, part-time investigator and full-time tough guy Kellerman returns to action in Shades of Gotham. A serial killer is loose in New York and his targets are middle-aged women. Recruited by the lawyer responsible for the killer’s freedom, Kellerman’s task appears simple. Find the killer and execute him. Except things aren’t as simple as they appear. The killer is younger, faster and even more powerful than Kellerman himself and will stop at nothing to continue his murderous spree. And this deadly game can only end one way.

Just Another Day In The Life It’s an all out mob war in The Bronx. When seven million dollars disappears from a Las Vegas casino, the number one suspect is a mid-level Vegas mobster named Anthony. The problem is Anthony has vanished without a trace along with the money. Casino owner, a powerful mob boss named Viny Boots calls upon the highly regarded skills of organization hit man Michael DeSousa to track down Anthony and bring the stolen cash home. This takes Michael back to the Bronx in New York City where he and Anthony grew up in the legendary section known as Little Italy. Once in ...

Travis and Helen Dunn are two of the best private detectives in the business. When not wisecracking, arguing or trying to conceive a child, they are highly efficient and extremely deadly. Often aided by Helen’s Korean mother who is a police captain and her Cuban father who is a district attorney and sometimes by her slightly insane mobster brother, the crew makes a formidable foe and desirable friend. When the biggest movie star in Hollywood, Chad West’s three-year-old adopted daughter is kidnapped on an outing in Central Park, his lawyer hired Travis and Helen to deliver the ransom and...

Thomas Blume is back, and this time he's deep in a case that could shake the very foundation of the country. Hired to find a hacker with shocking government secrets, Blume works to find the man and stop the leak. But when the bodies start piling up and everyone in the city seems out to get him, Blume must battle against the odds and team up with a new ally if he is to survive.

Inspector John Marco discovers photographs of Westford sitting in various luxury cars and Westford’s connections with the organized hooligan gangs of Cardiff points to a connection with hardened criminals. But is it that easy?

Don’t mess with Deal.... Mayhem will follow. At the funeral of two of his hit men, Mike Russo, capo of the New Jersey Mob puts out a contract on Detective Matt Deal for his part in the killings. At the same time another funeral is taking place in Florida. Deal will soon learn just how badly his world is broken...and it’s about to get worse. The long awaited sequel to book one in the series - Mercy. Fans of Jack Ryan or lethal killers like Reacher or Scot Harvath will devour this novel.

Bushwick in the 1970s is a cesspool of drugs, violence, and depravity. Every aspect of life in the blighted neighborhood has been contaminated by the Mafia. Butchie Bucciogrosso is an Italian cop who detests the Mob. A survivor of the streets, he returns from Vietnam only to find Bushwick in ruins. His partner, Fast Eddie Curran, had to kill his way out of Belfast. The only cops with the courage to take on the Mob, they become a deadly nuisance trying to win back their streets. Only the Mafia, their own dirty police department, and a corrupt federal government stand in their way.

When a woman is found dead in her car in a Norwegian parking garage, everyone suspects an overdose...until a forensics report indicates that she was murdered. Oslo Detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim's Kenyan scientist boyfriend has disappeared, and their investigations soon lead them into the shady world of international pharmaceutical deals.

A detective with a dark side goes up against vicious serial killers in this gritty detective kidnapping thriller for fans of Lucinda Berry and Loreth Anne White. An idyllic family. A detective with a past. And the sadistic kidnapper hell-bent on destroying them all. "Chilling, suspenseful, and impossible to put down." ~Bestselling Author Kristen Mae WHERE YOU GO, YOUR PAST FOLLOWS. For once in his life, Curtis Morrison has it good. A newly-married detective on the Ash Park police force, Morrison spends his days working to heal the ails of society to make up for his own checkered past. But ...