Noir Fiction

In this atmospheric and profoundly moving debut, Cathy and Daniel live with their father, John, in the remote woods of Yorkshire, in a house the three of them built themselves. John is a gentle brute of a man, a former enforcer who fights for money when he has to, but who otherwise just wants to be left alone to raise his children. When a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, their precarious existence is threatened, and a series of actions is set in motion that can only end in violence.

Notley Village was small, peaceful, and quiet. At least, it appeared to be. But hiding beneath the façade was an evil that would have shocked a nation…and turned the hair of the goodly Reverends of New England pure white. For years, Martha has hidden her true self from her husband. She's played the part of a godly wife and a loving mother. But she's something else too and her deepest self still calls to her. She longs to feel pain along pleasure. She misses the feeling of kneeling before a man who is hard as birch wood at her submission.

La série culte ! Violette, Klaus et Prunille devraient se plaire dans leur nouveau collège. Mais ce collège-ci est assez spécial, et la vérité est que les orphelins s'apprêtent à y vivre un bien sinistre épisode. À titre d'exemple, dans ces treize chapitres, les trois enfants vont devoir faire face à une tribu de crabes malveillants, à un règlement stupide, à de longs récitals de violon, à de redoutables tests de contrôle et au système métrique... Dès 11 ans.

On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women - one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to investigate the most brutal crime of his career, Áróra looks into the background of a suspicious man, who turns out to be engaged to Daníel's former wife, and the connections don't stop there.

In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary, but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried.

It's the summer of 1985 in London's Soho, and Joe Stone is settling into his new life living in the heart of London's developing gay scene. When Danny Devraux—the compère they've hired to host their charity ball, The Frock Show—is found dead backstage, it falls to Joe and his friend and flatmate, Russell, to figure out what happened.

"L'idée d'écrire des histoires érotiques m'a prise un jour, dans un salon de thé. Quelques années plus tard, j'écris ces mots dans un lieu merveilleux en buvant... un thé des amants. Oui, le thé est l'un des ingrédients aphrodisiaques de mon écriture. J'aime sa subtilité, sa finesse et sa générosité. J'aime le moment où il commence à infuser et colorer l'eau chaude pour mieux le parfumer.

A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland, never to be seen again. But Matthildur leaves in her wake rumours of lies, betrayal and revenge. Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Detective Erlendur is on the hunt. He is looking for Matthildur but also for a long-lost brother, whose disappearance in a snow-storm when they were children has coloured his entire life. He is looking for answers.

When two murders happen in Chicago, a witch hunt ensues, and Kristin quickly finds herself at the centre. The problem is she isn't sure of what she did or didn't do. Armed with a life insurance payout, she runs away to Sweden to start her life over. But it's not that easy to escape the past. And whatever she's done, someone is on her tail, wanting her to pay.... The question is: could she be a killer and not even remember?

Sometimes your husband is not enough. Hopefully he understands this, and supports you in getting the pleasure you need. This is the sweet kind of cuckolding. No manipulation. No humiliation. There is a husband who loves you and wants you to be sexually satisfied, even if it isn't with him.

This 22-story set contains erotic tales of ganging encounters, threeways, orgies, couples trying to spice up their lives, and college coeds just beginning their journeys. This bundle of erotic stories includes sensual adventures in Switzerland, boardroom erotic experiences, ménage encounters at weddings and reunions, and so much more. This bundle contains previously published material.

"Happy birthday, Raven. Welcome to Noir Reformatory." Not what every girl wants to hear on her 18th birthday, but I accepted my fate long ago. I was born with black wings, earning me a permanent jail sentence from day one. A noir angel for life. That's fine. I'll own this prison just like I did back home. Even if it's ruled by two hot kings.

Sur Cairne, l’île sur laquelle ont été parqués tous les criminels des terres voisines, la Reine Morguenne fomente en secret pour s’emparer du détenteur de Ruine, le seul capable de retrouver cette épée légendaire qui assoira sa domination sur les peuples. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu. L’enfant promis est retors et insolent. Des chevaliers à l’âme pure (ou presque) refusent de le lui abandonner sans combattre. Une Charmeuse bien trop folle embobine ses hommes et lui promet de macabres récompenses.

It’s a slow, steamy summer in New Orleans’ French Quarter, but Franki Amato is busy planning her bridal shower—that is, until a hit-and-run outside a coffee shop gets her PI senses percolating. The victim is linked to crimes at a fancy society wedding in a haunted hotel where Franki’s fiancé’s family is staying. As for the java joint, it’s straight out of a hardboiled detective movie, and there’s something hinky about its walnut liqueur coffee.

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all...in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy. The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.

Alexandra Noir is proud to present two of her BDSM novels in one fantastic bundle! In this one audiobook, you'll get both Write Away, Sir and Secret Submission.

In this bold collection of hard-hitting urban erotic quickies, Noire, the undisputed Queen of Urban Erotica, brings you 11 authors who explore, without apology or restraint, street sagas of sexual pleasure. Boasting an all-star lineup of some of today’s hottest authors - and sprinkled with heat from some fresh new talent, too - this collection from Noire thoroughly lives up to her credo of giving her fans just what they like: street drama with a sheet-drenching erotic twist.

Brand-new stories by: Daniel Woodrell, Matthew Eck, Catherine Browder, Nancy Pickard, John Lutz, J. Malcolm Garcia, Kevin Prufer, Linda Rodriguez, Nadia Pflaum, Phong Nguyen, Andres Rodriguez, and others. Kansas City: where East and West collide, where naked ambition meets broken dreams, where blues and the night go together like rye whiskey, vermouth, and bitters. Yes, Kansas City is a surprising place of grit, gore, and betrayal, at least in the imaginations of our diverse lineup of contributors.

Eli’s asked to perform his magic act at a swanky charity gala, the Zombie Ball - a former zombie pub crawl which has grown into an annual high-class social event. What begins as a typical stage show for Eli turns deadly when two of the evening’s sponsors are found murdered under truly unusual circumstances. Compounding this drama is the presence of Eli’s ex-wife and her new husband, Homicide Detective Fred Hutton. Under pressure to solve the crime before the 800 guests depart, Eli and his detective nemesis go head-to-head.

Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt—better known as Ravn—is on leave from Copenhagen’s special crime unit following the brutal murder of his wife. Wracked with guilt over her death, Ravn has withdrawn to a ramshackle houseboat with only his grumpy Old English Bulldog to keep him company. But his self-imposed exile ends when a friend asks him for help finding a young woman who disappeared without a trace a few years earlier. The investigation brings Ravn back to his former workplace and the underworld he’d hoped to leave behind.