Most Read This Week In Noir

Noir fiction is a name given to a mode of crime fiction which can be regarded as a subset of the hardboiled style.

In this sub-genre, the protagonist is usually not a detective, but instead either a victim, a suspect, or a perpetrator. He is someone tied directly to the crime, not an outsider called to solve or fix the situation.


See also pulp noir.
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Noir"

All the Sinners Bleed
Wolf Hour
Evil Genius
A Gambling Man (Archer, #2)
Small Mercies
Shadow Ticket
Hildur (Hildur, #1)
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
Las madres (Elena Blanco, #4)
Hidden in Memories (The Åre Murders #3)
Venetian Vespers
Halcyon Years
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
Rósa & Björk (Hildur, #2)
Blood Ties (Kongeriket, #2)
El Dorado Drive
Tælle til en, tælle til to
Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
A Killing on the Hill
The Girl with Ice in Her Veins (Millennium #8)
Locked In (Department Q, #10)
Tom's Crossing
La bestia
Jakob (Hildur, #3)
The Shadow Murders (Department Q, #9)
Tinna (Hildur, #5)
Heat 2
Miss Bee e il cadavere in biblioteca (Miss Bee #1)
Even Though I Knew the End
The Mountain King (The Asker, #1)
Reykjavík
Esperando al diluvio
El hijo olvidado
Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
Rakel (Hildur, #4)
Gray Dawn (Easy Rawlins, #17)
The Children of Eve (Charlie Parker, #22)
Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7)
The Stranger in the Seine
Il gioco della notte
Under the Paper Moon (A Bishop & Gallagher Mystery #1)
The Glass Man (Asker, #2)
Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
Murder Under Her Skin (Pentecost and Parker, #2)
Lucia
The Night Always Comes
Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)
Death on the Island
The Devil Takes You Home
The Pale House Devil (Discreet Eliminators, #1)
The Lost House
Outside
Lazarus Man
Le Bureau des affaires occultes (Le Bureau des affaires occultes #1)
April in Spain (Quirke, #8 and St. John Strafford, #3)
La gran serpiente
Harmattan Season
Houses of the Unholy
Skördebarn
The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)
Secrets Typed in Blood (Pentecost & Parker #3)
Crown Vic: Ray Boyd isn't Stupid / Occasional Risk (Crown Vic #1)
The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20)
Extremity
Shanghai
Blaze Me a Sun (Hallandssviten, #2)
Alors, tout tombe - Première partie (Blacksad, #6)
La comunidad
The Human Target, Volume 1
L'Île de Yule
Skulden man bär (Sebastian Bergman #8)
Welcome to Cooper
Sur la Dalle (Commissaire Adamsberg, #12)
Gangland
A Strange Habit of Mind (Cameron Winter #2)
Long Chills and Case Dough
Dark Music (Rekke & Vargas, #1)
Un colpo al cuore
They All Fall the Same
Shifty's Boys
Som man sår (Sebastian Bergman, #7)
Cahokia Jazz
Sleeper Beach (Titanium Noir, #2)
36 Streets
Razzmatazz
Cosmic Detective
A Thousand Natural Shocks
The Woman Inside
The Last King of California
Ingen skal drukne
The Dark Remains
A Case of Matricide (Georges Gorski, #3)
Senseless
Daughter of Ashes
Fädernas missgärningar (Rebecka Martinsson, #6)
Code of the Hills (Mick Hardin, #3)
The Wheel of Doll (The Doll Series, #2)
The Human Target: Volume 2
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
They All Fall Down, Part 2 (Blacksad, #7)

Raymond Chandler
It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.
Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them.
A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

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