Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke
$38.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in the maelstrom.In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River and much o ...Show more
Viper's Dream by Jake Lamar
$28.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
For fans of Colson Whitehead and Chester Himes, Viper's Dream is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of mid-century Harlem, and one man's dreams of making it big and finding love in a world that wants to keep him down.1936. Clyde 'The Viper' Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to ch ...Show more
The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger
$24.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Faber Editions Ser.
For fans of The Passenger, this thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost noir gem, introduced by Anthony Quinn.'A wonderfully compelling noir thriller and audacious and challenging act of imagination.' William Boyd'This extraordinar ...Show more
A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames
$24.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
From the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, a deliciously noir novel about idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll and his quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child) Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally i ...Show more
Sleep with Slander by Dolores Hitchens; Steph Cha (Foreword by)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
Private eye Jim Sader returns in a hard-hitting thriller set in the dark corners of sunny southern California You're playing with a child's life: The search for a kidnapped boy leads private detective (and ex-alcoholic) Jim Sader through a labyrinth of well-hidden family secrets and into the heart o ...Show more
The Wrong Goodbye by Toshihiko Yahagi
$38.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond ChandlerThe Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.S. military intelligence in the docklands of recession Japan. After the frozen corpse of immigrant ...Show more
Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery by Lesser Wendy, Wendy Lesser
$40.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
For nearly four decades, Wendy Lesser’s primary source of information about three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—was mystery and crime novels, and the murders committed and solved in their pages. Having never visited the region, Lesser constructed a fictional Scandinavia, something b ...Show more
We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day - A Novel by Ivana Bodrozic; Ellen Elias-Bursac (Translator)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
A thriller of the ex-Yugoslavia Wars. "Bodrozic, mediated by Ellen Elias-Bursac's assured translation, chronicles what a country chooses to remember, and what it consciously forgets, with confidence and grace." --Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's eas ...Show more
Black Money by Ross Macdonald
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
'I can't make your girl come back if she doesn't want to. I told you that on the phone...' When Lew Archer is hired to find out the truth about a suspiciously suave Frenchman who has run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple enough case. But things start to look very different when Ar ...Show more
Boston Noir 2: The Classics by Jaime Clarke
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
In keeping with the tradition of the Noir series, Boston Noir 2 is made up of the works of several celebrated authors whose work is tied together by a common setting. After the massive success of the first Boston Noir, bestselling author Dennis Lehane is back as curator for another anthology of crime st ...Show more
The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope by C. W. Grafton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics Ser.
Is this lawyer digging his way to the truth, or digging his own grave?Short, chubby, and awkward with members of the opposite sex, Gil Henry is the youngest partner in a small law firm, not a hard-boiled sleuth. So when an attractive young woman named Ruth McClure walks into his office and asks him to i ...Show more
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective aro ...Show more