English Detective Noir

It’s a case unlike anything detective Mina Dabiri has seen before. A woman trapped inside a magician’s box, with swords pierced through. But this time, it’s not a magic trick. It’s murder. Knowing she has a terrifying killer on her hands, Mina enlists the help of celebrity mentalist, Vincent Walder. Only he can give her an insight into the secret world of magic and illusions. Mina and Vincent soon discover that the murder victim has the roman numeral III engraved on her leg. The killer is counting down.

A secret list and a nine-fingered man push Acapulco’s first female police detective to the edge in this exciting companion to the award-winning Detective Emilia Cruz mystery series. After she stops a gang attack in an upscale neighborhood, Emilia discovers a black notebook with a list of names, numbers, and dates. Convinced it is a list of dirty cops, Emilia knows she’s in danger. In a police department riddled with corruption, how long until someone finds out she has the list and comes gunning for her? Meanwhile, the head of the police union initiates an internal investigation, all but...

Ever wonder how law enforcement operates in small town Arkansas? Seek no further. From the Author: Don’t read this book if you can’t handle gritty drugs fiction with meth labs and addicts, a deputy who’s more redneck than refined, or a plot that punches harder than a 400-pound hillbilly. It’s raw, messy, and not your mama’s cozy mystery. BUT If you do, County was written by a retired small town cop (that’s me), inspired by real-life experiences (but everything, including people, places, or events, in the book is fictional, to be clear), and I only held back a little. Cops talk a...

Retired police detective Danny Love pictures himself as a hard-boiled PI now that he's hung his own shingle. He likes being his own boss, and business is steady, but some personal issues have led to a potential financial crisis that is keeping him awake at night. Love believes that his problems are over when a wealthy client enters his office with a lucrative offer. Despite his intense dislike of Catherine Godfrey due to her arrogance and entitlement, the thought of alleviating his money woes is too enticing to resist, and he takes the case. However, as the investigation progresses, it soon...

A murder mystery. The seventh book in the Detective Riley Scott series. When Homicide Detective Riley Scott is called to investigate a murder at the same exact apartment, with the same exact M.O. as a homicide he not only investigated 3 years earlier, but solved, he is catapulted along a course that will take him from Tampa to New Orleans where he nearly loses his own life trying to get answers. At the same time, the trial for the killer he arrested 3 years earlier for the original murder is floundering in the courts as the judge and the defense team are demanding answers—answers Scott is...

Claire Perrigaux a clandestine SOE agent during WW2 operating from Saint Brieuc in Northern France,has a past life she doesn't like to talk about. In 1925, the world was a different place. As a child prodigy, Claire Lane, a Professor of Mathematics at London’s prestigious St Anne's University. Her specialty- scientific study of probability. In other words, the likelihood that an event will reoccur. Chief Police Inspector Ralph McGinniss of Scotland Yard is sent down from London to investigate these heinous crimes, and enlists the skills of Claire Lane to help him. A team is forged. How ...

Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he is surprised at first to see that the victim appears to be a rather typical techie. But on closer inspection, he finds the victim is over seven feet tall. And even though he doesn't look a day over thirty, he is actually ninety years old. Clearly, he is a Titan - one of this dystopian, near-future society's genetically altered elites.

A body was found in a Trunk at Kings Cross Station. Nothing unusual, except Chief Inspector, Lord Ralph McGinnis is sent down from Scotland Yard to investigate. Recognized as retired Police officer Casper Fellen, Ralph suspects he stumbled into gang warfare, and what is the Royal connection with horseracing at Epsom? Professor Claire Lane senses the truth. Will she side with Ralph, or take another view, agree to disappear undercover with renowned Gang boss Alexander Carrington. Is this the end, or does this spell disaster for not only Claire’s reputation, but to Ralph’s heraldic ...

In the dark heart of Buffalo's Chippewa District, where reality dances cheek to cheek with fantasy, you'll find yourself pulled into the drama at Marco Pollo's Bar & Grill & Cabaret. Here, amidst the tantalizing aroma of Tiny's game-changing Pierogi-olis, a culinary clash brews, and Max Noir, fortified with bourbon and a tongue as sharp as a chef's knife, maneuvers through the eccentricities of the scene. But when a mysterious demise casts a noirish shadow over the revelry, Max is thrust into a culinary battleground armed only with his cynical gaze and a nose for trouble. Brace yourself for...

In the rugged gorges of the Kimberley, where blackened spinifex and red earth tell stories to those who can read them, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to investigate a body staged to resemble an animal attack. A wildlife photographer's death in a remote country quickly reveals darker motives. What begins as a suspicious death evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between rare goanna breeding grounds, vandalised rock art sites, and powerful interests opposing a new sanctuary. When Odie discovers hidden SD cards documenting systematic wildlife ...

Good, bad or indifferent, the job makes no difference to LT if the price is right. A jack-of-all-trades in the city’s underworld, LT is a true outlaw when it comes to solving your problems, generally at the point of a gun. In Noir, LT is hired by a doctor and his barren wife to help deliver the ransom money for a kidnapped, surrogate baby. According to the doctor, the young woman he hired to carry his surrogate baby demanded more money once the baby was born. It seemed simple enough a task, deliver the ransom and pick up the baby. Simple enough until a mysterious group of people murder ...

A loved one taken. An ex-cop with a past. One night to find the truth... When ex-New York Detective Thomas Blume is asked to play bodyguard at a high-class London party he figures that it should be a night of easy money and free booze. But easy and free are never what they seem... The sudden disappearance of two girls throws the night into chaos and now lives are at risk. One girl is the daughter of wealthy local industrialist Andrew Hyde… the other, the daughter of his close friend Amir. Why were they taken? And how does it all connect to Blume’s investigation of his family’s murder?...

"Beneath a Buried House is a wonderful book, full of twists and turns and surprises." –Crime-Spree Magazine Things aren't always what they seem. Tulsa Police Detective, Kenny Elliot's quest to uncover the truth behind the death of a transient, makes him a target—from whom or what, he isn't sure. When he brushes the dirt from the surface of an apparent John Doe overdose case, he finds a labyrinth of misdirection and deception, and a trail, which leads him to an encounter with an aberration in human nature, the likes of which he's not prepared to deal with. Drawing on his strength of ...

On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter’s best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery—her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth disturbing details about Chloe and her secret transgressions…details that threaten to tear them apart.

Tyler and Daphne investigate the apparent murder of Charles Yoder, a member of the city's flea market scene. But with every new development in the case, their list of suspects grows. It seems a lot of people hated Mr. Yoder.

The Paintings of Rauma takes the reader to Finland on a thrilling crime adventure. The story is based in the beautiful coastal city of Rauma and takes Jussi, a local Police Officer, on a journey to investigate connected crimes across Finland, Sweden and Singapore. This Nordic Noir mystery begins with a minor incident that sets in motion a chain of events involving theft, murder, passion and hidden treasure. Jussi Alonen is a local Police Officer whose life is turned upside down when someone from the past comes back into his life. A gang of criminals make their way around Finland, wreaking ...

LOS ANGELES, 1932: Lulu Wong, star of the silver screen and the pride of Chinatown, has a face known to practically everyone, especially the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—Lulu’s former classmates and neighbors. So the girls instantly know it’s Lulu when they discover a body one morning in an out-of-the-way stable, far from the Beverly Hills home where she lived after her fame skyrocketed. The sisters suspect Lulu’s death is the result of foul play, but the police don’t seem motivated to investigate.

Three hundred years after a global pandemic, Webster City is the last city left on Earth. Major Carl Davidson of the Internal Security Bureau investigates the suspicious death of a brilliant biochemist and discovers a dark plot to wipe out the last of mankind. A post-apocalyptic thriller.

The Mime Who Said Too Much: A Buffalo Noir The opulent Buffalo Theater glitters with a facade of wealth and culture. But beneath the surface, a killer lurks, their weapon: silence. Their victims: mimes. Enter Detective Max Noir, a seasoned cop navigating the smoke-filled depths of Buffalo's underworld. When a string of murders rocks the city's elite, Max finds himself drawn into a chilling game where shadows hold secrets, and every whispered rumor could spell disaster. The city's most renowned mime, Alistair Craven, has become the first target. As Max delves deeper, he uncovers a tangled ...

LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan is struggling to move forward after the death of her brother in Afghanistan and taking a life in the line of duty. Her stoic parents offer little support – they refuse to address anything difficult, and she’s afraid their relationship is eroding beyond the point of recovery.