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What do readers say about The Club Dumas?
satan is a forgery mystery and tension a book about books noirish literary thrillerLucas Corso's search for the original copy of a book of the occult takes him from Madrid to Paris and into a secret society of antiquarians.... More details on The Club Dumas
My name is Boris Balkan and I once translated The Charterhouse of Parma. Apart from that, I’ve edited a few books on the nineteenth-century popular novel, my reviews and articles appear in supplements...
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What do readers say about City of Glass?
metafictional/metaphysical noir detective stories self-referential, existential quality hardboiled detective fiction noir detective novels'It was a wrong number that started it ...'Chosen as one of the '100 Most Important Comics of the Century', Faber is proud to publish the graphic novel City of Glass for the first time in the UK. As Art Spiegelman explains in his new introduction, Da... More details on City of Glass
IT was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. Much later, when he was able to think about...
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What do readers say about Faceless Killers?
choppy and jarring old school noir solving a murder straight to the pointThe mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander
From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series.
It was a senseles... More details on Faceless Killers
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What do readers say about Trainspotting?
short story collection lowland scots dialect different narrators throughout poorly photoshopped images'An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated tales that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies, wide-boys and psychos who ride in the down ... More details on Trainspotting
Croxy, sweating from exertion rather than from drug abuse for once in his life, struggles up the stairs with the last box of records as I collapse on the bed, gaping through a numb depression at the c...
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What do readers say about The Black Echo?
slow to get moving crisp and suspenseful really good story a first novelAn LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in this "thrilling" novel filled with mystery and adventure (New York Times Book Review).
For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body i... More details on The Black Echo
The smoke carried up from the Cahuenga Pass and flattened beneath a layer of cool crossing air. From where Harry Bosch watched, the smoke looked like a gray anvil rising up the pass. The late afternoo...
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What do readers say about The Sins of the Fathers?
clean and flows raw and gritty more cerebral than action-packed pulp fiction styleThe pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search o... More details on The Sins of the Fathers
He was a big man, about my height with a little more flesh on his heavy frame. His eyebrows, arched and prominent, were still black. The hair on his head was iron gray, combed straight back, giving hi...
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What do readers say about Winter Counts?
immersive and engaging native american culture real, current, and thought-provoking literary crime fictionSHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL
"Winter Counts is a marvel. It's a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth." -Tommy Orange, author of There There
A Best Book of 2020: NPR * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * CrimeReads * G... More details on Winter Counts
I leaned back in the seat of my old Ford Pinto, listening to the sounds coming from the Depot, the reservation’s only tavern. There was a stream of Indians and white ranchers going inside. I knew Guv ...
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What do readers say about Flood?
taut, razor sharp prose noir crime thriller writing and character description dark crime fictionBurke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her-so she can kill him with her bare hands.
In this c... More details on Flood
I GOT TO the office early that morning-I think it was about ten o’clock. As soon as the dog saw it was me, she walked over to the back door and I let her out. I went outside with her as far as the fir...
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What do readers say about Thin Air?
gritty and dark hard-core science fiction twisty turny chinatown plots a justice storyAn atmospheric tale of corruption and abduction set on Mars, from the author of the award-winning science fiction novel Altered Carbon, now an exciting new series from Netflix.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN
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IT WAS EARLY evening when I hit the Mariner Strip, and up in the Lamina they were trying again for rain. With limited success, I’d say. Got this thin, cold stop-start drizzle weeping down out of a pap...
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What do readers say about The City & The City?
imaginative and entertaining noir detective novel metaphysical crime noir noir police procedural novelNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú... More details on The City & The City
I COULD NOT SEE THE STREET or much of the estate. We were enclosed by dirt-coloured blocks, from windows out of which leaned vested men and women with morning hair and mugs of drink, eating breakfast ...
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