Some like it Noir
...the Hard-Boiled Way |
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| Century of Noir: Thirty-Two Classic Crime Stories |
| Find flinty men and fetching women, plenty of blood, booze and cigarette smoke. |
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| The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps |
| Revisit that exciting time when the pulp magazines flourished and writers pounded out fiction for a penny a word or less. |
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 | Andrews, Robert |
| Murder of Justice |
| As the streets of D. C. - especially the black streets - turn into killing fields, citizen distrust of color-selective law enforcement can only spell anarchy for an already troubled town. |
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 | Block, Lawrence |
| Grifter’s Game |
When con man Joe Marlin accidentally steals a suitcase full of heroin, he contemplates murdering the man he stole it from.
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 | Bruen, Ken |
| Magdalen Martyrs |
| When a local thug hires Jack to track down a woman, it seems like an easy way to repay an outstanding debt. |
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 | Cain, James M. |
| Double Indemnity |
A manipulative wife involves a morally weak insurance salesman in a scheme to murder her husband and collect his insurance.
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 | Cain, James M. |
| Postman always Rings Twice |
| From the master of the genre, comes the story of a sultry young wife who conspires with an aimless drifter to murder her husband. |
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 | Chabon, Michael |
| Yiddish Policemen’s Union |
What if following WWII a Yiddish speaking homeland was established in Alaska and was populated with the most appealing detective heroes to come along since Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe?
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 | Child, Lee |
| Hard Way : a Jack Reacher novel |
| Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow up in his face. |
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 | Connelly, Michael |
| Overlook : a novel |
LAPD detective Harry Bosch is called in to investigate what looks like an execution-style shooting. Or is it?
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 | Ellroy, James |
| Black Dahlia |
| In 1947, the mutilated remains of a beautiful dark-haired woman are discovered, and a massive, seemingly hopeless manhunt ensues. |
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 | Ellroy, James |
| L.A. Confidential |
| The intertwining paths of three flawed and ambitious cops are revealed as the tightly wound plot untangles to reveal dope peddling, prostitution, and other risky business. |
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 | Graves, Sarah |
| Dead Cat Bounce |
| When Jake discovers a dead man in her storeroom, an ice pick stuck in his head, her tranquillity comes to an end. |
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 | Harvey, John |
| In a True Light: A Novel of Crime |
| Come to care about the tragic and compelling Sloane, whose efforts to fill his unexpected father role lead him into all sorts of trouble. |
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 | Lehane, Dennis |
| Mystic River |
A savage killing and its effects on a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.
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 | Pelecanos, George |
| Hell to Pay : a novel |
| Private investigators Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a 14-year-old suburban runaway who’s working as a prostitute. |
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 | Pelecanos, George |
| Night Gardener: A Novel |
Still obsessed with a twenty-year-old murder case, three detectives team up when similar killings start to happen again.
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 | Pronzini, Bill |
| Crimes of Jordan Wise : a novel |
The first thirty-four years of Jordan Wise’s life have been dull and empty. But that all changes when he meets and falls in love with Annalise Bonner.
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 | Taylor, Chad |
| Departure Lounge |
Greg searches for signs of an answer to a question that has troubled him for decades, since a local classmate disappeared.
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 | Vachss, Andrew |
| Getaway Man |
| Ex-con Eddie takes on a new job as a getaway driver for J.C., a big-time heist artist, a career that could lead to a profitable future. |
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 | Whitehead, Colson |
| Intuitionist |
After an elevator she inspected crashes, Lila Mae starts an investigation to clear her own name, her party’s reputation, and to restore the Elevator Guild’s glory.
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