Browsing: Noir

When maid Maggie Darling returns to her quiet hometown on the coast after 17 years in London, she stumbles into all sorts of trouble — including a shocking murder mystery! Follow Maggie as she unravels dark secrets in this historical whodunit.

In the late 1980s, a man’s disappearance led Sacramento police to the discovery of a boarding home for the needy run by a kindly old woman… who buried bodies in her backyard. A shocking true story you’ll have to read to believe.

Someone is killing people in a small Scottish town and placing a number on the chest of each victim. Can DI Clare Mackay unmask the murderer before her own number is up? This page-turning procedural is first in a series.

When a suspected murderer returns home to the Scottish island of Stoirm, reporter Rebecca teams up with local photographer Chazz to unravel a 15-year-old mystery. “Exquisite language, credible characters, and unrelenting suspense — this crime novel has it all” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

Detective Chief Inspector Dover, Scotland Yard’s least motivated investigator, has little interest in finding missing housemaid Juliet. But with suspects everywhere he looks, he’ll have no choice but to tackle the tiresome mystery! “Something quite out of the ordinary” (The Daily Telegraph).

“Richly atmospheric and irresistibly suspenseful” (Joyce Carol Oates): When Claire was seven, her older sister was murdered during a family vacation on a Caribbean island. Years later, Claire crosses paths with one of the original suspects — and embarks on a haunting, obsessive hunt for the truth…