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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Sixteen storytellers shed light on the darkness that lurks in the California city in this fun collection of crime tales. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir . Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. With stories by: Barry Gifford, Jim Nisbet, Lexi Pandell, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Mara Faye Lethem, Thomas...
2) Snitch World
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
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It's 1992 and three people's lives are about to collide against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Vietnam vet Harry Hudson is a journalist fleeing his past: the war, a failed marriage, and a fear-ridden childhood. Rootless, he stutters, wrestles with depression, and is aware he's passed the point at which victim becomes victimizer. He explores the city's lowest dives, the only places where he feels at home. He meets Mama...
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Finde den Tod, bevor er dich findet: Die Jagd nach einem Serienmörder führt die Ermittler Gray und Sophia nicht nur zur tot geglaubten Sekte Fiordia, sondern auch tief in ihre eigenen psychischen Verstrickungen. Dabei merken sie nach und nach, wie viel die Morde mit ihnen selbst zu tun haben. Und machen die schmerzhafte Erfahrung: Du kannst die Gegenwart so lange ignorieren, bis sie dich als Vergangenheit einholt.
5) Vampyr
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Nachtkommissar Gideon Voss untersucht widerwillig einen tödlichen Unfall und stolpert dabei über blutsaugende Okkultisten, hartnäckige Ermittlerkollegen und Gefühle für die Hauptverdächtige, die ihn mit tiefschwarzen Augen und angefeilten Eckzähnen manipuliert.
6) Hit and Run
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A prosperous junk-car dealer sees his ex-convict twin brother murdered and assumes his identity to trap the killers.
7) Raw Deal
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Once freed, gangster Joe Sullivan and his girl friend Pat set off to find the mobster who set him up. The kidnapping of Ann Martin, the social worker who wrote to Joe in prison, leads the fugitive into a romantic triangle.
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It's 1975. Johnny Riles leads a lonesome, whiskey-soaked existence on Colorado's high prairie. Abandoned by his parents, who moved away after Johnny accidentally shot his father, and absent his buffoonish younger brother, who has left home to star in the American Basketball Association, Johnny is an uncommonly unhappy man.
Johnny is awoken from a depressive stupor after an autumn snowstorm leads him to cross paths with a brutal killer. Thus do his...
10) The Fallen Idol
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
11) Dannie
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English
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No matter what the logical cost, follow your dreams. Dannie had a rough start. She was born into wealth, however, she had no say in her life. She broke thru the mold and slowly went after her dream. Dreams don't die unless you let them.
12) Rail Birds
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Colin is a cash game poker pro, so is Jordan, but Jordan has something that Colin does not. A beautiful girlfriend named Isabelle. What happens when sex, money and deceit fill the air between them? This story is a original screenplay written by James Paul Nelson. In this story, James writes about themes he knows quite well. Gambling, drugs, sex, and fast money. Characters are forced to look at themselves and their situations and deal with the consequences....
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Wu Boqiang, who was from a low-income family, traveled to Tokyo, Japan to pursue his studies. However, a number of issues developed as a result of the green mold on the ham he brought. The butler first said that the ham shouldn't have been hung on the wall and then chastised him for not hanging the ham in the toilet. Boqiang didn't earn the butler's respect until his friend Zichen paid him a visit and invited the butler to eat the ham. He still chose...
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¿Dónde esta el mal? ¿En una persona, una circunstancia, una acción? ¿O bien es algo difuso e impalpable como una polvadera, tan fría y silenciosa que podrían pasar años antes de percatarnos de su presencia? Podríamos no ver cómo se acumula en torno a nosotros, sino encontrarla de improviso en nuestra mesa, murmurándonos tonterias al oído, observándonos burlona desde el espejo».
¿Es oportuno confesar mi interés por los relatos de...
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Herz der Finsternis: Auf der nächtlich an der Themsemündung in Gravesend stillliegenden Seeyacht Nellie erzählt der ehemalige Seemann Marlow seinen vier Freunden, die das Band der See eint, eine Episode aus seinem Leben. Er beschreibt seine Sehnsucht, die letzten weißen Flecken des Globus kennenzulernen, und wie sie nach einigen Mühen dazu führte, dass er Flusskapitän wurde.
Lord Jim: Anstoß zu dem Roman gab die dramatische Geschichte...
16) Yesteryear
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Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again! Who was the mind behind The Lone Ranger? It's 1930s Buffalo, and the Great Depression rages. Playwright Fran Striker needs to write the pilot for a new radio show but, first, he must overcome writer's block, defeat a curse, foil a plot to assassinate FDR, and recover stolen diamond...
17) Calling
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On a bus outside Vegas, a washed-up gambler meets a strange preacher As the bus rolls away from the Las Vegas strip, Timber Goodman screws his eyes shut and tries to keep his stomach from lurching. He came to Vegas in hopes of jump-starting his fading broadcasting career, but he leaves hung over and dead broke. Beside him sits a preacher in cowboy boots, whose only luggage is a Bible, a bottle of bourbon, and a razor-sharp bowie knife. This is Ezekiel...
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A terrible crime occurs in Elect H. Mouse State Judge.
Two young girl are abducted and held hostage by a band of religious fanatics. The girls' anxious father, a politician on the eve of an important election, has reasons of his own not to go to the police, so he hires a pair of shady private eyes to investigate. All the elements of a classic noir-except that the kidnapped girls are mice, the abductors are Sunshine Family dolls, and the detectives...
19) Lumberjack
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One of the Twelve Best Indie Horror Books of 2023 - The Lineup
Nebraska city, 1901.
There's a curse on Arbor Lodge-an elusive demon reclaiming the illustrious home in the name of the prairie-and its owner,
J. Sterling Morton, proud statesman, is desperate.
It couldn't be more fortuitous for lumberjack Neville, whose greatest desire is to prove himself a true man to the world.
Morton offers respect, security, pride, even the father...
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Identical twins Sylvie and Betty Allard loathe each other. They loathe the outside world more. Estranged for ten years, their worlds collide. A shared competitive streak leads them to derail each other as they embark on a killing spree of celebs and wannabes to make the world a better place. As the net and the Met closes in on them, the twins might need to work together, for the first time ever. A crime noir literary romp.
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