- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill,...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2008
Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Theirs is the generation that flew too close to the sun on wings of cocaine – and whose lives changed irrevocably when planes...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th Century/Early 20th
Brighton, suburb of Boston, 1975: a Boston neighbourhood where racial tensions run high and gangs jostle for dominance in the trades that matter – drugrunning, book-keeping and theft. Fifteen-year-old Kevin Pearce knows his best hope is to get the...
- Location(s): London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century to Modern
London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brings the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All around police...
- Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin – half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned – two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1986
“In 1986 Pakistan’s greatest poet was found brutally murdered, beaten to death by government thugs. Two years later his lover, fearless activist Samina Akram, disappeared. Her daughter, Aasmani has always assumed her mother simply abandoned her – since she...
- Location(s): The Bronx
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1988
The year is 1988 and reporter Matt Brady of The Bronx Ledger is trying hard to get out of both his native borough and the dead-end job he’s stuck in, writing for a weekly newspaper. When he’s sent to...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
An anthology of “noir” short stories, by different authors under the editorship of S J Rozan. Mystery, crime…they all feature in the underbelly of a few short blocks.
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
An anthlogy of stories under the editorship of Tim McLoughlin. New York’s punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today’s best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bay Ridge...
Brooklyn Noir 3 (Nothing but the Truth)
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
An anthology of short stories under the editorship of Tim McLoughlin set in Brookly, some noir, essentially factual.










Please wait...
