Noir Fiction

Sweden’s far north is growing colder; even in springtime, the town of Gasskas is buried under a relentless snow. As temperatures drop, tensions rise between a global corporation shamelessly exploiting the area's natural resources and wary locals who have scores to settle. A bomb blasts apart a crucial bridge. Soon after, a young journalist is found murdered. Meanwhile, Lisbeth is at home in Stockholm, looking to fill the void her last lover left behind. When she discovers that fellow hacker Plague has been kidnapped and taken up North, she has no choice but to return to Gasskas.

Some women take control. Others were born for it. In this tightly curated collection of three high-heat femdom stories, dominant women command attention—and obedience. From a teasing wife with a winning bet, to a woman who disciplines her husband with pleasure and precision, these tales explore control, service, and erotic surrender. Whether you crave authority, training, or just a bit of psychological edge—these women get what they want. Note: All three stories in this bundle were previously published. They’ve been selected from our backlist and repackaged for new readers seeking ...

Eddie Ankin is back in a white-knuckle thriller that thrusts you into the dark corners of Hollywood—and doesn’t let you breathe until the final page.” After a shootout in Beverly Hills nearly claims the life of an Academy Award–winning actress, ex-Marine and Hollywood stuntman Eddie Ankin is thrust into a dangerous mystery that stretches from the Sunset Strip to Lompoc Federal Penitentiary. As he struggles to protect a woman whose star power can’t shield her from a lethal predator, Eddie soon discovers the threats aren’t just on the streets—they’re embedded in a system that ...

In the seedy depths of Angel City a new kind of scum is taking root. Working girls are going missing and when they show back up again it's bad news. The pervs and freaks seem to be winning but the deal is they never counted on Mel Thompson. Not just any shamus or private dick, Mel has a certain, shall we say, connection to another place down under but it's not Australia. The clock is ticking for Mel to solve the case because the deeper he gets into it, the better the odds that he's going to get his block knocked off, and then it's not just curtains, but a one-way ticket back to Hell for the...

The island city-state of Singapore harbors unique customs and traditions largely unknown to the West. A booming economy and embrace of conformity overshadow its gambling dens, red-light districts, and a collective passion for ghostly and gory tales. Now, in Singapore Noir, some of its best contemporary authors delve into its seedy side.

"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 ...

Claudia Shephard’s husband died in a fire. Everyone says it was tragic. Accidental. She doesn't remember much—just smoke, panic, the way her lungs burned as she ran. But three weeks after the funeral, a manuscript arrives on her doorstep. A book she didn’t write. A book that describes, in disturbingly intimate detail, her husband’s affair… and the precise steps she took to murder him. It’s written in her voice. With her quirks. Her phrases. Her secrets. And page by page, Claudia feels her grip on reality begin to unravel. As whispers swirl through their coastal town and friends ...

In the ancient Singing Gorge, where sound travels in mysterious ways and sacred ceremonies have been performed for millennia, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to investigate when ethnomusicologist Dr. Simon Parker is found dead at the base of a cliff. What begins as a possible accidental fall evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between sacred ceremonial recordings and powerful academic, commercial, and political interests. When Odie discovers Parker's recording equipment is missing and evidence of a struggle at the cliff edge, he must ...

Ya ha transcurrido más de un cuarto de siglo desde que su hijo desapareció en Chile, pero el magnate español de la prensa Agustín Serradel sigue tras su rastro. Con Pinochet sin inmunidad jurídica y pendiente de juicio en Chile, empiezan a desclasificarse informes de la CIA, y gracias a sus contactos, Serradell logra hacerse con la única pista sobre la detención de su hijo poco antes de que ésta se haga pública.

In the drought-stricken Kimberley, where water means the difference between survival and ruin, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to a sacred waterhole where the body of water project engineer Michael Crawford lies half-submerged, surrounded by poorly staged traditional elements. What begins as a murder investigation evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between ancient underground water systems and generations of deliberate deception. When a second victim—environmental consultant Rebecca Palmer—is found at another sacred site, Odie must ...

When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years, he never expected he'd accidentally shoot a man digging ginseng. Worse yet, he's killed a Brewer, a family notorious for vengeance and violence. With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the help of the only man he knows will answer, his best friend, Calvin Hooper. But when Dwayne Brewer comes looking for his missing brother and stumbles onto a blood trail leading straight back to Darl and Calvin, a nightmare of revenge rips apart their world.

There’s a voodoo woman in New Orleans who knows your darkest secrets French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas learns he’s permanently linked to the spirit of a man with whom he’d fought a duel during another lifetime. The only person who can free Wyatt from his curse is long-dead voodoo queen Marie Laveaux. To seek her help, he must travel back to Antebellum New Orleans, succeed in his endeavor, or be trapped in the past forever. When Wyatt meets his former lover at the Mulatto Ball, he doesn’t know if he wants to return. While Wyatt is time traveling, detective Tony ...

Maya Thorne's day off at Warragulla's Annual Cup Race Meet ends abruptly when jockey Cameron Walsh is found murdered in stable seven. The investigation quickly reveals that Walsh had been documenting a sophisticated race-fixing operation involving performance-enhancing drugs, coordinated betting, and corrupt officials. As Maya digs deeper, she uncovers a network of powerful interests willing to protect their profitable scheme at any cost. A massive dust storm descends on Warragulla, isolating the community and hampering the investigation. With communications failing and evidence at risk, ...

HE KILLS FOR HIS ART, AND HE WILL KILL FOR YOU IF HE LUSTS YOU! The long-awaited Complete Final Season IV of The Handyman is here. You get all three riveting, steamy, mysterious, and thrilling seasons. You get PASSION PLAY, A PASSION CALLED HATE, and PASSION PROMISE! In the series called “stunning” and “just beautiful,” The Handyman has become an almost cult classic since it was first introduced to readers of steamy romance and mystery. For those who love EL James, Stephanie Meyer, and Sylvia Day comes a sizzler of a suspense saga from New York Times and USA Today bestselling ...

William’s father is a beloved opera singer in Stockholm, charismatic and unpredictable. Raised in the shadow of his father’s addictions—women, drink, and cruelty—he knows the man’s dark side. William believes he’s found the light when he falls in love with a fellow university student, a young woman named Ebba. But his father’s hold on his life is not so easily broken. Even in death.

DEAD BROKE is the first in a gripping new crime series. A desperate gumshoe... A stolen antique... Jefferson Cole is about to find out that being a Private Investigator can be murder... Introducing the first book in a thrilling new crime series that will keep you on the edge of your seat! If you're a fan of LJ Ross, JD Kirk, Mark Dawson, and Ian Rankin, then DEAD BROKE is the book for you. Meet Jefferson Cole, an American Private Eye in London who is down on his luck and running out of funds. But when a wealthy client offers him a job to recover a stolen Chinese antique, Cole thinks he's ...

Some people just can’t avoid danger. Lately, American expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen has been one of them. A year ago, Glenn and his close friends from Bangkok’s mysterious NJA Club were drawn into a CIA plot to kidnap a Russian gangster. They succeeded and survived, thinking life was back to normal. When a sleazy grifter from Glenn’s past appears in Bangkok, Glenn and the NJA gang are dragged back into a dangerous world, this one filled with North Korean drug dealers, spies, and hitmen. Follow Glenn and his colorful friends as they face bullets, deceit, and love. Suspense with a ...

In the1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. Here writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now this series resurrects from those pages the toughest of tough detectives in sonic dramatizations from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.

There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover cops.

In the autumn of 1971, Cleveland Police Lieutenant Alex Wesner is given a case that may be no case at all, or it may be several cases tied together. Did a workman perish in a vat of molten steel, or is his disappearance part of an elaborate ruse? To find the answers the lieutenant and his team must navigate the Byzantine procedures and furnaces of the Rubicon Steel Corporation while relying on mostly unhelpful witnesses: an enigmatic young man who might be talking in riddles, or a left-for-dead comatose security guard, knifed like so many other victims. The lieutenant's investigative team ...