South Central Noir (Akashic Noir)
By: Gary Phillips
3.91
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Ang…
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1. The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)
By: James Lee Burke
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that.… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
2. Worst. Person. Ever.
By: Douglas Coupland
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever.i… read more
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- fiction
3. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
By: James Ellroy
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more
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- noir
- fiction
4. She Rides Shotgun
By: Jordan Harper
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more
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6. The Lesser Dead
By: Christopher Buehlman
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most tr… read more
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7. Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics
By: Naomi Hirahara , Raymond Chandler , Walter Mosley , Ross Macdonald , James Ellroy , Margaret Millar , Leigh Brackett , Paul Cain , Chester Himes , James M. Cain , Joseph Hansen , Kate Braverman , Jervey Tervalon , Denise Hamilton , Yxta Maya Murray , William Campbell Gault
4.00
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard … read more
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8. Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan #1)
By: Laura Lippman
3.95
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be… read more
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9. Hong Kong Noir
By: Jason Y. Ng
3.73
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Fourteen of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting… read more
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- short stories
- noir
- fiction
10. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
By: Stephen Graham Jones
4.21
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
11. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
12. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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- audiobook
13. Goddess of Filth
By: V. Castro
3.63
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
14. Piñata
By: Leopoldo Gout
3.67
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more
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- audiobook
15. Ghost Eaters
By: Clay McLeod Chapman
3.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
16. Flags on the Bayou
By: James Lee Burke
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana… read more
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- audiobook
17. Black Mouth
By: Ronald Malfi
3.96
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
18. Everybody Knows
By: Jordan Harper
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more
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- noir
- fiction
- audiobook
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
19. The Scourge Between Stars
By: Ness Brown
3.59
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more
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- audiobook
20. A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Du… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
21. Jackal
By: Erin E. Adams
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the fi… read more
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- audiobook
"When your name is in other people's mouths, they twist it up. They make you into something you are not. When people take you outside yourself, that is when trouble comes."-Erin E. Adams, Jackal
22. Denver Noir
By: Cynthia Swanson
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Denver enters the Noir Series arena with a wide range of mile-high misgivings and perils. Featur… read more
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- short stories
- noir
- fiction
23. Cleveland Noir
By: Michael Ruhlman
3.89
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Cleveland Noir joins Columbus Noir as the Akashic Noir Series continues its tour of Ohio, and navig… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
24. Delicious Monsters
By: Liselle Sambury
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller fo… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
25. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- audiobook
26. Joe Hustle
By: Richard Lange
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Joe Hustle has never had much luck—but things start looking up when he meets an intriguing new woma… read more
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27. Austin Noir (Akashic Noir)
By: Hopeton Hay
3.75
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Austin joins Dallas and Houston in Akashic's deep dive into the Lone Star State's darkest dimension… read more
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- short stories
28. Palm Springs Noir
By: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
3.97
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Palm Springs now joins Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley … read more
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- short stories
- noir
- fiction
29. South Central Noir (Akashic Noir)
By: Gary Phillips
3.91
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Ang… read more
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- audiobook
30. Half Crime
By: Rusty Barnes
4.73
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
PRAISE FOR HALF CRIME "The characters in this collection have been brought low by circumstances … read more
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