noir fiction

Investigator Cyril Hayes struggles to learn what is going on when eleven union factory workers in Evesden, a so-called city of the future in 1911 built by the much-revered McNaughton Corporation, are found dead in a trolley car only minutes after they boarded.

"Justine Childs is your average teenage girl, until the day ex-child-star Eva Kate Kelly moves in across the way. Eva Kate is gorgeous, seductive, and eager to invite Justine into her glittery world. Their relationship intensifies quickly, but there is a lot they aren't telling each other, and in the midst of the whirlwind, a girl lies dead. Who killed Eva Kate? Justine swears her innocence--and she'd like you to hear her side of the story"--Provided by publisher.

"How badly do you want to be famous? What--or who--would you sacrifice? These are the questions Justine Childs is forced to reckon with as the main suspect in the murder of It-girl Eva-Kate Kelly. Not long ago, Eva-Kate drew Justine into her orbit before meeting her untimely end in a Venice Beach canal. Prosecutors and the public want to know: Did Justine, now a social media darling in her own right, kill her celebrity best friend? Can anyone be trusted to tell the truth? Justine has always wanted people to know her name--but not all notoriety is created equal"--Provided by publisher.

Collects no. 1-4 from the comic series "Spider-Man Noir," in which a bitter Peter Parker gains his spider-like powers and fights against the Goblin and the other villains of New York City during the 1930s.

"Justine Childs is your average teenage girl, until the day ex-child-star Eva Kate Kelly moves in across the way. Eva Kate is gorgeous, seductive, and eager to invite Justine into her glittery world. Their relationship intensifies quickly, but there is a lot they aren't telling each other, and in the midst of the whirlwind, a girl lies dead. Who killed Eva Kate? Justine swears her innocence--and she'd like you to hear her side of the story"--Provided by publisher.

Ted Severson jokingly tells Lily Kintner, the woman on the plane next to him on a flight from London to Boston, that he really would like his wife dead, and Lily surprises him by saying that she would like to help.

An unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of an unhinged Mafia enforcer.

"When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home..."--OCLC.

Al Jeery, a loyal member of the Cardinal's personal guard, is pulled from his duties at Party Central to investigate a murder mystery that draws in the dead, the City's Incan forefathers, the imposing figure of the Cardinal, and the near-mythical assassin Paucar Wami, who can kill anyone without fear of retribution.

Depressed screenplay writer Ethan's life begins to fall apart when he and his secretive wife, Susan, move in next to a seductive serial killer.