Noir
Rain-slicked streets and neon signs cast shadows over a world where morality blurs and everyone's got an angle. Hard-boiled detectives, corrupt officials, and desperate souls navigate urban labyrinths where justice comes at a price and redemption is always just out of reach.
Noir Book Summaries
You
A bookseller stalks a crush from her credit card into her inbox, her apartment, her bed.
You
A bookseller stalks a crush from her credit card into her inbox, her apartment, her bed.
Razorblade Tears
Two ex-con fathers, divided by race, unite to avenge the murder of their gay sons.
Razorblade Tears
Two ex-con fathers, divided by race, unite to avenge the murder of their gay sons.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Sent to retrieve a wealthy heir from Italy, a grifter grows dangerously obsessed with his life.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Sent to retrieve a wealthy heir from Italy, a grifter grows dangerously obsessed with his life.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A disgraced journalist and a hacker reopen a forty-year-old disappearance on a dynastic island.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A disgraced journalist and a hacker reopen a forty-year-old disappearance on a dynastic island.
The Cartel
A retired DEA agent leaves his beekeeping monastery to hunt the drug lord who got away.
The Cartel
A retired DEA agent leaves his beekeeping monastery to hunt the drug lord who got away.
The Black Ice
A cop's suicide note lures Harry Bosch into a border drug war and a deadly masquerade.
The Black Ice
A cop's suicide note lures Harry Bosch into a border drug war and a deadly masquerade.
The Hanging Girl
A cop's suicide reopens a girl's hanging. Carl Mørck traces it to a remote sun cult.
The Hanging Girl
A cop's suicide reopens a girl's hanging. Carl Mørck traces it to a remote sun cult.
The Shadow Murders
A cold case uncovers a serial killer whose signature is staged accidents and a calendar of tyranny.
The Shadow Murders
A cold case uncovers a serial killer whose signature is staged accidents and a calendar of tyranny.
The Black Book
When his wife disappears in Istanbul, a lawyer's only map is her half-brother's newspaper columns.
The Black Book
When his wife disappears in Istanbul, a lawyer's only map is her half-brother's newspaper columns.
Trunk Music
A producer found in his Rolls-Royce trunk, staged as a mob execution. Bosch follows the money.
Trunk Music
A producer found in his Rolls-Royce trunk, staged as a mob execution. Bosch follows the money.
City of Glass
A mystery writer borrows a detective's name and shadows a mad linguist through New York.
City of Glass
A mystery writer borrows a detective's name and shadows a mad linguist through New York.
Faceless Killers
A farmer murdered in Sweden. Hidden money, a secret family. Kurt Wallander must find the killers.
Faceless Killers
A farmer murdered in Sweden. Hidden money, a secret family. Kurt Wallander must find the killers.
Echo Park
A killer's confession reopens Harry Bosch's coldest case, but the search for the body is a trap.
Echo Park
A killer's confession reopens Harry Bosch's coldest case, but the search for the body is a trap.
Storm Front
When magic kills, a wizard detective faces a crime lord, a vampire, and a rogue sorcerer.
Storm Front
When magic kills, a wizard detective faces a crime lord, a vampire, and a rogue sorcerer.
White Night
A killer stalks Chicago's witches. The prime suspect is wizard PI Harry Dresden's own brother.
White Night
A killer stalks Chicago's witches. The prime suspect is wizard PI Harry Dresden's own brother.
Despair
A Russian émigré in Berlin finds his physical double and decides murder is the highest art.
Despair
A Russian émigré in Berlin finds his physical double and decides murder is the highest art.
