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61) Vancouver noir
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Vancouver Noir is an excellent anthology that would appeal to short-story fans of all types--even those who dont read the genre on a regular basis...Like the earlier volumes Toronto Noir and Montreal Noir, the new anthology serves as a fantastic introduction for those unfamiliar with the genre and a reminder that Canada, bursting with amazing writers, is one of the strongest countries for crime writing in the world."
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...
65) Dead aim
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Roughneck detectives Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take on an apparently straightforward assignment -- discourage a man from harassing his estranged wife -- that is, until the husband is murdered and more bodies turn up.
66) Nobody move
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In Bakersfield, California, an assortment of unscrupulous characters engages in a cat-and-mouse game over a multimillion-dollar claim.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
From the cover. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon -- private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in LA, and Doc knows that...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In sparkling Night City, a ragtag group of strangers have just pulled off a heist, robbing a convoy transporting a mysterious container belonging to Militech. The only thing the group has in common is that they were blackmailed into participating in the heist-and they have no idea just how far their mysterious employer's reach goes, or the purpose of the artifact they stole. This newly formed gang-composed of a veteran turned renegade, a sleeper...
69) Blood's a rover
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The violence begins with an unsolved 1964 L.A. armored car heist that will come to have major repercussions later in the novel, as its effects ripple outward from a daring robbery into national and international affairs. There's Howard Hughes's takeover of Las Vegas, helped along by Wayne Tedrow Jr., who's working for the mob. The mob, meanwhile, is scouting casino locations in Central America and the Caribbean, and working to ensure Nixon defeats...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Witnessing the progression of regional corruption in his work as a British lawyer in early 2000s Moscow, Nick Platt rescues two sisters from a purse snatcher and pursues a glamorous romantic relationship with one of the sisters before he is asked to help with a dubious family endeavor.
Author
Series
Baer Creighton volume 4
Publisher
Hargrave Enterprises [and Clayton Lindemuth]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With Baer Creighton hidden inside a mountain, Stinky Joe survives the wild Flagstaff winter alone. But with first melt, he succumbs to warm broth and sleeping pills, placed at the doorstep of a scheming prostitute at the vortex of a politician looking for an issue, a money-launderer wielding leverage, and his 83 year old meth-dealing target. Stinky Joe learned as a pup: don’t ever bite a man. He’ll beat you near death. But cornered in a bath tub...
72) Noir fatale
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
c2019.
Language
English
Description
"NEW SCIENCE FICTION, URBAN FANTASY, AND MYSTERY STORIES WITH A NOIR THEME FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHORS LAURELL K. HAMILTON delivering an Anita Blake series story, LARRY CORREIA, penning a Grimnoiir series adventure, an original Honor Harrington series tale from DAVID WEBER, AND MORE. The silky note of a saxophone. The echoes of a woman's high heels down a deserted asphalt street. Steam rising from city vents to cloud the street-lit air. A man with...
Author
Series
Shortcut man novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
From the writer described as "a worthy successor to Raymond Chandler" (Michael Connelly) comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to "Shortcut Man," featuring Dick Henry in a rousing tale of sex, sleaze, and salvation in the City of Angels.
74) Just thieves
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves. They do not steal randomly - - they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they’re tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates interest and obsession out of proportion to its apparent value. Just as the robbery is completed, the two are involved in a freak car accident that sets off a chain of events...
75) Coward
Author
Series
Criminal volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Meet Leo, who can plan the perfect heist ... but only if he can be convinced the job is safe enough. See, Leo is not a shoot-first think-later guy; Leo is a professional. But to some criminals, even professionals, the right payout is worth almost any risk. So when an old friend and a crooked cop approach with a plan to seize millions of dollars in contraband from an evidence transport van, Leo must make tough choices, knowing there's nothing you can...
Author
Series
Baer Creighton volume 2
Publisher
Hardgrave Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Six days before Baer Creighton cut down a cabal of dogfighters, a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared while walking home from school in Asheville, North Carolina. Witnesses later claimed they saw her in the back of a police car. Twenty-five years before that, an illegal fireworks plant blew up in Benton, Tennessee, killing eleven, and raining M100 firecrackers over half a county. A few days later, a thirteen-year-old boy learned his highest calling...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A reformed criminal with a new family, a refugee fleeing a violent past, a world traveler trying to do good, an ambitious businessman, and a cunning young woman plot a daring heist involving a stolen helicopter and $6.5 million in cash" --
80) Black mountain
Author
Series
Isaiah Coleridge novels volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnams' Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A guy in Harold Lee's business would make his fair share of enemies, and it seems a likely case of pure revenge. But as Coledrige turns over more stones, he finds himself dragged into something deeper and more insidious than he could have imagined, in a labyrinthine case spanning decades." -- book jacket.