English Detective Noir

Eric Farr is an ex-private investigator who thought he had given up the world of crime and man's darker side to become a writer in upstate New York state. But when his best friend, a retired filmmaker, is murdered and one of his valuable paintings stolen, Farr finds himself drawn back into trying to solve the murder, this time for very personal reasons. The investigation leads him not only into murder but also the world of art forgery and art theft far beyond what he could have foreseen. Can Farr decipher a strange clue left at the murder scene and track down his friend's killer? And will ...

An implacable family of criminals. A detective at the bottom of his career. An investigation that will lead him to unpredictable consequences. Silvana, the mistress of the mafia’s big boss, went to Vico pleading for help, but now she is dead. The most evident explanation is suicide, but detective Vico is not convinced. In the course of the investigation, Vico will end up in the grip of the Italian mafia, in a war against Chinese drug smugglers for the control of the power in the city. In a corrupted and violent world, where Vico can trust no one, will he be able to solve Silvana’s death...

Bayshore Noir is the newest release from John David's critically acclaimed Noir De Jure imprint. Detective Frank Geddy is on the case again, this time in the trendiest of Tampa neighborhoods, the Channelside District. Since pizza and booze aren't free, Frank does what it takes to survive, as unpleasant as it may be.

Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When an old acquaintance approaches him about his wife's apparent suicide, Quirke recognizes trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist.

Its 1963 and Monty DiNardo, not yet thirty is enjoying his success as both a private investigator and one of the nation’s bestselling crime and mystery writers. While working on his current book, Monty is interrupted by his Aunt Penelope, who, after the local police dismiss her concerns about a suddenly missing trusted employee, turns to her sleuth Nephew for help. Monty, agrees to do all he can to locate the missing employee. As he retraces her steps, Monty is unaware that he is on a collision course with a pair of merciless marauders. What follows is a tense game of cat and mouse filled...

Officially, he's on vacation. Unofficially? He’s hunting a Nazi. Dash Westfield. L.A. cop. Vietnam vet. Smart mouth. Heavy fists. When a whispered name from the past resurfaces—Klaus Adler, a sadistic Nazi doctor who vanished in 1945—Dash follows the trail to a sun-drenched village where nothing is what it seems. Old war money. Young zealots. Maids with machine guns. At the center of it all? A mansion in the jungle… and a secret that should’ve stayed buried. The drinks are cold. The air is hot. And the past is armed. DASH: Paradise Burn is a pulp-soaked neo-noir thriller packed ...

Suspended from his job, criminal investigator Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt lives a lonely, dissolute existence—until he crosses paths with a woman desperate for help locating her missing brother. Driven to embezzlement, the man has vanished without a trace on a visit to Berlin. Ravn's investigation takes a chilling turn when he uncovers a pattern of similar disappearances involving single men in the German capital. As the pieces of this puzzle start to fall into place, Ravn finds himself entangled in a web of darkness and deception that dates back to the era of the Stasi.

AMIDST THE SILENCE, A STORM BREWS In a desolate region just south of the border that divides Northern Ireland and the Republic, a tragic event unfolds as a young man falls victim to a fatal beating. The incident sends ripples of unease throughout Belfast, with Detective Superintendent Ian Wilson acutely attuned to the palpable tension gripping the population. The specter of renewed violence looms large, fueled by the looming prospect of a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. As Wilson and his Garda counterpart, Duane, embark on the pursuit of justice in the wake of the young ...

Gus suspected Father Xavier asked him out for Thanksgiving dinner for more than just the friendly company. When you’re the sheriff of a small county you learn quickly that people only put on airs of wanting to be with you out of friendship. Typically instead these people think they’ve spotted a crime that they want you to deal with. The father suspects something rotten is in the air concerning a holiday family reunion involving the daughter of a once rich rancher, her famous author older brother, and her less than famous younger brother, the loan writer from Santa Fe. Gus isn’t one to...

Gus has the unfortunate task of judging the local art show at the Tannehill Ranch. The only thing Gus knows about art is you shouldn’t eat the macaroni after your child has glued to their artwork. Given the art show is displaying art from the daughters of most of the wealthier members of society in his state, Gus could hardly have said no to the request to be a judge. Things heat up at the art show when one of the teenage contestants ends up missing. It is the sort of news that isn’t exactly easy to tell parents with large bank accounts. Worse, it turns out she’s likely run away with ...

A devastating fire. A hospital full of immobile helpless patients. A power shifting conspiracy. Can Shreeja and Shiuli get to the bottom of the corruption of power? A fire broke out in a superspecialty hospital in the city. The patients were asphyxiated, choked to death by the fumes while waiting to go home just the morning after. The event brought trauma and despair to the lives of the city. Shreeja started digging what caused the fire and why the rescue operations were insufficient. Shiuli followed the system and hit a wall so big that she doubted if she would ever be able to dig a hole ...

The campus went crazy when a final year student was found murdered. Can Shreeja and Shiuli get to the murderer before anyone else gets hurt? Monali Santra was the topper of the mathematics department. Shiuli was upset when she was assigned to investigate the murder of Monali Santra in the university campus where she studied mathematics two and a half decades ago. She was petrified to know that the campus dynamics did not change at all. Her colleagues came in her support and Shreeja shared the weapons with her. She took the war path to cleanse the system that had been taking lives of ...

Murder of Emma, the billionaire at twenty-two, threatened the town of business owners. Can the police bring justice before anyone else gets hurt? Detective Avery Hudson thought the dead body at the Crompton Gardens Park would be a routine investigation. When the dead body was identified as the body of Emma Holden, the owner of a tenth of the city real estate, then Avery felt some extra pounds on her shoulder. The entire town is watching Avery with their microscopes. The height of public attention wrecks Avery’s nerves. Investigation of Emma’s murder turns ever more complicated because ...

Lives in the city are all under attack. Can she nab the killer or the attackers before they hurl on another life? Young yet respectable Keira Jones is a detective in the Collinsville Police Department in Illinois. Each case appeared before her as a new challenge as it is difficult for others to accept that her eyes are as sharp as those of the eagles. The difficulty deepens when she is asked to take part in a joint investigation with the federal agents. To prove her smartness she always needed to move fewer steps ahead of her partner from the federal agencies. The stress pushed her on the ...

Jimmy Johnson’s body appeared in his neighbor’s backyard long after he was dead. Can the detectives bring a joyful holiday to a mourning community? Peyton Anderson was a feisty young detective in the Police Department of Moscow, Idaho. When a half decomposed body was discovered by a long absent city home owner in his backyard as he returned home, Peyton became one of the investigators. Peyton felt helpless as it took a long time to establish the identity of the victim. Peyton spent restless nights thinking that the murderer could escape before the identity of the victim was confirmed. ...

When a visitor to the city of wonderful rocks and minerals got killed, the city caught a fever of awe. Can the city ever get back to its feet? Detective Paisley Kimbell of Moab Police Department was not thrilled to investigate the death of a visitor to the city. The city started to depend a lot on tourism since the closure of uranium mines decades ago and started coping with surging property investments in the city. The death of a teenager could be a deadly publicity for the businesses in the city. The small businesses were already hurt by increasing costs of doing business. The new homes ...

Almost a dozen missing girls. Bags full of unidentified body parts. Can Shreeja prove that the police are ineffective? Can Shiuli prove Shreeja wrong? One morning Shreeja’s ride was stopped at a traffic stop. As a street ripe crime journalist she started digging what the police were searching in all those vehicles. Her meeting with police detectives led her to almost a dozen missing girls. Shreejs started asking uncomfortable questions. The police were weaving a net with the news reports, with the news media response to the abduction of girls and other evidence against the suspect. Can ...

A dead bride and a missing maiden - in a small town, surrounded by loved ones. Can detectives save lives and bring the killer to justice? Detective Danielle Hall believed in the goodness in everyone. When her best friend found the dead body in the bridal suit she was about to rent for her own wedding, Danielle had no option other than finding the killer in their small town community. She discovered that one of the bride’s maids disappeared. Danielle felt that the bride was not killed because she was hated. She risked her personal relationship with her town folks to get to the bottom of ...

On the gritty, forgotten streets of Larissa, Galen Tor is more than just a gambler. Once a soldier with a reputation for calculated risk, now he's a man willing to bet it all—even his last route off this desolate rock. But when a high-stakes card game with an old enemy goes sideways, Galen’s life spirals into an underworld of deception, violence, and shady alliances. As the stakes rise and a powerful rival threatens to take what little he has left, Galen finds himself entangled in a job he can’t walk away from—a dangerous rescue operation, led by a corrupt commissioner with his own ...

Veteran fashion designer Claude Macaron was killed during his own after-party following an annual fashion show celebrating Valentine’s Day. Can the city police bring justice to the artistic soul? Detective Anna Barnhurt of Moon Township Police Department, was quick in reaching conviction in nine out of ten cases. When a famous fashion designer from France was killed in the town, Detective Anna Barnhurt was the obvious choice of her supervisors to bring justice to a deceased foreigner so that the city could save some face. Many out of town suspects were hurrying to leave the town making ...