Private Detective Noir

Che triste autunno, questo autunno, per il detective privato Mario Borri, 65 anni d'età per 165 centimetri d'altezza. La pensione è alle porte. E mentre sta provando inutilmente ad ammorbidire II magone per l'ormai imminente addio alle armi con qualche dose non troppo sparagnina di Jack Daniel's liscio. Si presenta nel suo ufficio una sventola dal capelli fulvi che gli propone un lavoretto all'apparenza facile facile. Non a Milano, però: in un paese lacustre lontano dalla sua amata città.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. San Francisco, 1928. Private detective Sam Spade takes on a new client, a nervous young woman with a story about a missing sister and a dangerous man. By morning his partner Miles Archer is dead in a foggy alley, the man he was tailing has been shot as...

From bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer George Pelecanos comes the tale of an ex-offender who must choose between helping the man who got him out of prison and embracing a life with the woman who showed him another path. Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to...

Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with tycoons and...

Mike Hammer has been away from New York for too long. Recuperating in Florida after the mob shoot-out that nearly claimed his life, he learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeral—and because he knows that Inspector Doolan would...

A collection of suspenseful standalone radio thrillers by Edward Boyd Scottish writer Edward Boyd was well known for his TV and radio plays, including The Corridor People and The View from Daniel Pike, and he also penned several episodes of Z-Cars. He specialised in the thriller genre, and this...

Quirke returns in the third volume of John Banville’s celebrated series A junior doctor at a local hospital, April Latimer is a scandalous presence in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin: the independently-minded scion of a well-connected family, she has decidedly...

"Narrator Dion Graham's lilting West African accent for Boubacar...is nothing short of mesmerizing. A master voice talent paired with a master storyteller--what could be better?" — Kirkus (Earphones Award Winner) "It's impossible not to be impressed by [Dion] Graham's narration. His knack for...

"Sono scappato dal mio vecchio lavoro, ho lasciato i vecchi giri, sono diventato un bravo ragazzo. Ma tutto, a parte mia moglie, a parte quello che ci diciamo io e lei quando siamo a letto assieme, a parte le giornate buone che ci prendiamo camminando per strada e pensando che non abbiamo bisogno di nient'altro, tutto mi è scivolato addosso senza lasciare tracce. Fino a oggi. Mi è bastato essere sfiorato dall'odore del sangue per ritrovarmi dentro, come un tossico del cazzo. E come un tossico mi sono dimenticato di quanto sia pericoloso spingersi oltre la linea."

Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye. Winter, 1969. After a hit-and-run accident nearly kills her mother, Velda learns her father is not who she thought he is. Seeking to...

Now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. Starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, and Willem Dafoe From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan...

A brilliant novel about fathers and sons and the dangers of modern life. "[George Pelecanos] pushes the boundaries of crime writing into literary territory." —New York Times Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly...

Frank Marr returns in this thrilling, dark novel, as the private investigator takes on a family case that brings him deep in the world of his vices. Frank Marr was a good cop with a bad habit, until his burgeoning addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced him into retirement from the DC police...

Riley Brodin is the granddaughter of Walter Muehlenhaus—a man as rich, powerful, and connected as anyone since the days of J. P. Morgan. Despite her family’s connections, it’s McKenzie she reaches out to when her relatively new boyfriend goes missing. Despite his reservations about getting...

Detective Sam Spade gets mixed up in a hardboiled mystery after the murder of his partner...

"Affare fatto" di Peter Cheyney è un avvincente romanzo noir che intreccia azione, mistero e intrighi criminali con un ritmo serrato e un’atmosfera densa di tensione. Protagonista è Slim Callaghan, un investigatore privato affascinante, astuto e privo di scrupoli, che si muove con...

In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic and enduringly popular detectives in crime fiction. Now a major film, Marlowe, starring Liam...

Métis journalist Leo Desroches has just been released from jail. Fortunately for him, he is re-hired at the paper to write a popular column about crime. It’s summer; the city is hot and buzzing with mosquitoes, and it’s on track for a record number of homicides. Called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city, Leo witnesses some rocks falling out of the body bag, and he picks them up. At first he believes they are crack cocaine but discovers that the rocks are really rough diamonds.

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded...