Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Noir

A job gone wrong. A blackmailed friend. A city in turmoil. An obsession leading down a sinister path.

NO ONE IS AS THEY SEEM ...

The Queen of Diamonds brings you the second action-packed chapter of the Red Dog Conspiracy.

While the villain Frank Pagliacci is defeated, all is not well in Bridges. Tensions rise between the Families, who accuse each other of spying while Red Dog attacks escalate. Aristocratic jewel merchant Anastasia Dame Louis, styling herself "The Queen of Diamonds," hires private eye Jacqueline Spadros to collect from her debtors so she can leave the...

In 1888 Oswell Danford is living a hard but satisfying life as a rancher in Virginia when he receives an unexpected telegram. A wedding invitation should be cause to celebrate but not when it means he'll have to face past deeds that he's deeply ashamed of.

Now he and his brother, along with their ex-compatriot, an inveterate gambler from New York, will have to travel to Montana Territory to settle an old score they'd nearly forgotten. They will join the expectant congregation at the small town church for the marriage of their former brother-in-arms. But while everyone else will be...

Southern Italy, the 1980s. On a hot summer's night under a full moon, far from the outlying neighborhoods of a southern Italian metropolis, Clara stumbles naked, dazed, and bloodied down a major highway. When she dies no-one is able to say exactly how or why, but her brother...

From NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Patricia Loofbourrow ...

..". a great mystery with lots of suspense ..." Reviews By Ang

Obsession. Blackmail. Betrayal.

What if your best friend was helping your worst enemy?

All is not well in the far future domed city of Bridges.

Tensions rise between the Families, who accuse each other of spying, while Red Dog attacks escalate. Aristocratic jewel merchant Anastasia Dame Louis, styling herself "The Queen of Diamonds," hires 22 year old private eye Jacqueline Spadros to collect from her debtors...

In 1888 Oswell Danford is living a hard but satisfying life as a rancher in Virginia when he receives an unexpected telegram. A wedding invitation should be cause to celebrate but not when it means he'll have to face past deeds that he's deeply ashamed of.

Now he and his brother, along with their ex-compatriot, an inveterate gambler from New York, will have to travel to Montana Territory to settle an old score they'd nearly forgotten. They will join the expectant congregation at the small town church for the marriage of their former brother-in-arms. But while everyone else will be...

I looked in his eyes. Those dead eyes. I wanted to choke some life back into them.

When DI Michael Bosco chokes a suspected child killer into a coma, he is expelled from the GardaI. Now lacking a purpose in life, Bosco gets a job offer he can't refuse from a supposedly retired gang boss. It's not long before he becomes the main suspect in a series of vigilante murders and survives an attempted hit. Under siege and emboldened, Bosco has some morally ambiguous choices to make, like whether to play by the rules or take the law into his own hands.

Prepare to meet...

Aaron Poochigian's Mr. Either/Or is an ingenious debut, a verse novel melding American mythology, noir thriller, and classical epic into gritty rhythms, foreboding overtones, and groovy jams surrounding the reader in a surreal atmosphere. Imagine Byron's Don Juan on a high-stakes romp through a Raymond Chandler novel. Think Hamlet in Manhattan with a license to kill.

Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His book of translations from Sappho, Stung With Love, was...

Tony LaTour, a local bookie and second-rate gambler who is waiting for the big win, finds himself in debt to the Mafia. An old high school acquaintance and classmate, Bradley Clevenger, is starting a new career selling life insurance and their paths are about to cross.

Without his knowledge, Ricky Alexander, another classmate, has a life insurance policy written up naming Tony as the Primary Beneficiary. Before the ink is even dry on the paperwork, Ricky is dead and Tony has his hand out wanting the insurance money payoff.

But Tony is in for a big surprise when he discovers...

Bruce Crown's second novel, Forlorn Passions follows the story of a maladjusted fighter pilot who searches for truth in a generation of deceit. As his search intensifies and his relationship with the world worsens, the harmony of his identity clashes with the ideals of his physicality. He is ordered to strike down those he fights for, and the resulting ripple effect lives a heart shaped void on his essence. The complexities of the characters he encounters are fleeting and tangible, no longer leaving an impression on his mind. In the vapid bizarreness of a bitter world, his quirky...

The final book in the Greg Salem trilogy, Hang Time, brings together the colorful cast of...

'Amazing, page turning, tense and twisted... From the first page to the last, the pace doesn't stop at all.' 5* Stylish Brunette

Suzanne Tyler barely knew her father. But when she's given a series of secret diaries and eight mysterious photographs of women from his possessions, she knows she won't be able to rest until she knows the truth about him.

To Suzanne's shock, one of the photos is of her friend Sophie, who died ten years ago in an unexplained and devastating fire.

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When Jeff and Kim Sanders' daughter turns sixteen, they decide to throw her a sweet sixteen party. Rather than an extravagant, indulgent affair, they invite four girls over for pizza, cake, movies, and a sleepover. What could possibly go wrong?

But things do go wrong, horrifically so. After a...

An alcoholic walks into a bar . . . and buys it. At the urging of his sometimes lover and sometimes drinking partner Jacquie Robillard, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from the trust fund his mother left him to buy the Esposito, a bucket-of-blood bar in Boston that he plans to turn into a jazz nightclub. But before he can turn the place around, the body of Timmy McGuire, a jazz guitar player, shows up on the small stage at the Esposito, stabbed to death.
Dan Burton, a Boston Homicide detective, likes Jacquie for the murder. She had a contentious relationship with the guitar...

This is a collection of three stories, each a short novel in itself. Strictly speaking, they're science fiction, but that label doesn't describe them accurately. The truth is, when Allen Steele wrote these stories, he "was deliberately playing with a different genre: mystery-suspense fiction."

What's an astronomer to do when he's been forced out of his teaching job on trumped-up charges of cultural insensitivity? If he's Theodore Reggs, aka T-Rex, his solution may involve hijacking a deep space probe and planning an alien invasion....

When a young man disappears on an alien...