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G'day All,I'm a lover of all things hard-boiled, noir, and pulp. And the seedier the better. I put out my debut novel, Harry's World, last year, and it is hard-boiled Sydney. I'm a former Detective Sergeant and ICAC Officer, so plenty of good stories to tell.
Most importantly, would love to discuss my themes more with interested readers. Feel free. ABP
Delighted to announce that Harry's World has just won the "Outstanding" award in the mystery category for the IAN 2016 Book of the Year Awards, and a bronze medal in the 2016 Global Ebook Awards.
GO DOWN HARD, my noir romp that T. Jefferson Parker called "Sexy, tough and comic -- and often all three at once," has been discounted by Brash Books for the first time for a BookBub promotion. You can get it for just 99 cents at Amazon or anywhere else.
Bloody Paradise My new thriller, BLOODY PARADISE, is tropical pulp. Trav Mitchell lands on the Thai resort island Koh Samui with a broken wrist, a bag full of cash and an angry Hong Kong crime boss on his tail.
Hello all! I am giving away ten free audiobook codes for the amazing Thad Brown's collection of short stories The Smoking Gun Sisterhood. Leave your email here or private message me through Goodreads. Here's the link to read/sample it http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-T...THANK YOU!!
Hi authors! I have just recently joined the group and am also an indie author. I have published 5 novels (in a variety of genres) and am working on my 6th, but it wasn't until my most recent fiction novel, noir romance An Affair With Danger, that I realised that noir is where my heart lies. As AB said earlier - the seedier the better.And as a former probation and parole officer, I have plenty of seedy material to work with! My current novel is a noir suspense/crime about a woman who travels back in time to undo a murder she committed 20 years ago, but of course things don't go according to plan.
It's nice to be in a group who won't think I'm weird for not wanting to write happy endings.
Not sure if this is the best place, but I did want to share something I wrote about the gifts of Raymond Chandler:https://maxeastern.wordpress.com/2017...
Hello everyone. I wanted to let you know about the Pulp Fiction Book Store at http://PulpFictionBook.Store We are building eBooks of classic pulp fiction stories from some of the greatest of the pulp fiction masters of the twenties through the fifties in Crime, Sci-Fi, Western and Adventure genres. (Horror is waiting in the wings...)
We are finding stories by individual authors from the classic pulp fiction magazines, digitizing them and turning them into ebooks in both .epub and .mobi for all eReaders. We take special care to include all those great illustrations too.
Our most recent crime fiction is "An Orange for the Killer" by J. Lane Linklater which has three of his novelettes from the 1940s. Pretty good entertaining stories.
My favorite crime stories though are the Dan Turner stories by Robert Leslie Bellem. We have several collections of those stories available with several more on the way. They have GOT to be partially tongue in cheek. You just have to check out the post about the Dan Turner stories to get an idea of this character.... But they're good crime stories underneath the "pulpy" exterior, so they're well worth a read.
As I write this we are working on the Adam Link: Robot stories by Eando Binder which was a highly popular sci-fi series in 1939-1942. Some pretty wild adventures by this "sympathetic robot."
Certainly one of the reasons for me to write this introduction is promotion, but a more important reason is feedback. We have a treasure trove of these classic pulp fiction magazines, and as you can imagine there are a zillion authors and characters available for us to make into eBooks. We'd really like your suggestions. Which authors or characters do you want to read?
I hope I haven't overstepped any bounds, stepped on any toes or stepped in it in any way. If I have, mea culpa. If not, come visit the http://PulpFictionBook.store and let us know what you think.
Thanks, AG
Hi, I am the author of Dark city: it is my last SF/noir, but it is in Italian. No translation yet, alas. In English, you can read Silvio Berlusconi's Italy: a portrait of the country and its godfather, a very hard-boiled true-crime story, FINALIST at 'THE WRITE STUFF' PRIZE at the LONDON BOOK FAIRThank you
Vittorio
I can see it's been a while since anyone has posted in here, so I'll toss out my book
Set in Chicago, it's a hard-boiled thriller with a supernatural twist. It's my debut novel, but I'm already working on the second one.
THE DUMMY CASE (A New Joe Ganzer Mystery)
by Don Satalic
P.I. Joe Ganzer Tracks Down A Deadbeat Magician Who Ends Up Dead!
Chicago P.I. Joe Ganzer couldn't refuse helping an elderly puppet maker locate a magician who owes money for one of his renowned puppets. But little did Ganzer know he would end up the only suspect in the magician's murder. A relentless Chicago Police manhunt forces Ganzer to go under cover.
His two operatives, a former grifter and a part-time jazz sideman, do their best to help but soon begin to think the police might be chasing the right guy after all.
The FBI shows up when fingerprints lifted by the cops at the murder scene come back "Name Withheld."
Joe Ganzer has one hope—Find out who killed the magician...and why.
—***Release date: May 5, 2018 ***— Ebook is FREE with paperback or sold separately.Also by Don Satalic
Return of the Falcon
The Masque of William Shakespeare
Tribute to Frank Marshall
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Best of luck, Don. That cover is both attractive AND creepy!
Melki wrote: "Best of luck, Don. That cover is both attractive AND creepy! "Thanks for the encouragement, Melki. Here's a link to my blog discussing that cover: Link
I almost couldn't use it.
I've been writing scifi, but my WIP novel is a (paranormal) noir that should be ready for beta reading in 3-4 weeks. My own beta readers are more into scifi, so I'm looking for advice on where to find noir genre betas and ARCs. Can anyone advise? Many thanks
Hi, everyone--Nick from Xynobooks here, and I've been doing a vlog about crime fiction for a while.My latest one is the most personal one to date (and the longest, fair warning), and it's about Robert B. Parker, the Spenser novels and Ace Atkins.
I hope folks will take a look, and I hope everyone enjoys it. It's the ninth in the series, so if you do, there's more to watch and a new one every week.
Thanks!
https://youtu.be/Bc_6qyeAhho
My Study, Pulp According to David Goodis, is an attempt to explain why 1950s crime pulp was the perfect vehicle for a talented stylist who understood why hard boiled neighborhoods became what they were in the 1950s, and why a sense of both despair and authentic community existed there. But Goodis also was a master at obligation: how people lost their independence through trying to be noble, and yet wound up losers. I have chapters on Goodis in Hollywood, the preoccupation with incest and femme fatale, the crime boss and his inner needs, about how Goodfis is much like Kafka, and about "Philadelphia Gothic." The book is available for pre-order at https://downandoutbooks.com/bookstore...
Hi! I’m writing a mystery/noir book series that stars in the Jazz age (1920’s). Any tips?
See the series Boardwalk Empire, I think produced for cable TV. Also Once upon a Time in America (film) and the novel it was based on, The Hoods.
Hello,Both my books will be free February 22nd to the 24th. I am pleased with my Goodreads reviews, but I need Amazon reviews, and lots of them. Your time and attention is greatly appreciated.
Joshua is a thief who is desperate for a new life with the girl he loves. Stealing from the Mob is the only way to get it. Can he survive long enough to enjoy it?
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Wildwood-...
Four stories of schemers and dreamers. A gangster goes into the woods to bury the secrets of his past. A farm kid grabs a piece of the glamorous life. A stripper wants to be a player. An old man learns a hard lesson.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Hello,I'm new to this group and thought it might be a good place to promote my first published story "Confidential Donation" available on Kobo.
https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/conf...
I would love to hear what you think of it.
Thanks
Kevin
I have a new Crime Thriller series. BEYOND BLOOD (book 1), AGAINST BLOOD (book 2). FALSE BLOOD (book 3) will be out this fall (2021). All books are free with KU or $2.99 if buy verified purchase. If any members are interested, here's more info =>Beyond Blood
Against Blood
Free book! Looking for readers to post their review here and on Amazon. DM me for the details. Title: Ravens In The Rain: A Noir Love Story
Authors: Christie Santo & Jeff Santo
Genre: Contemporary Noir Romance / Psychological Thriller
Back Cover Blurb:
Ravens In The Rain is an unconventional noir between a woman with a past and a man with no future where love is no fairy tale. Carney and Pru, down on luck and down on love, meet over a game of chance, and the mystery of the other’s intentions, compounded by their overwhelming attraction toward each other, compels them into a game of cat and mouse. They ante up and play this game of love or survival that has you wondering who’s the villain and who’s the hero and how it will all play out. When murder is brought to their doorstep the game gets serious.
A psychological tale between a poet and a filmmaker that has even the cat wondering if it's really the mouse, what is real, and who is telling the truth. Is love on the table? Or is it life?
Old School American Anthology Crime FictionNeighborhood Watch
Spanning from 1936 to 2020, the interconnected stories crisscross back and forth across America and weave through the lives of average Americans with direct, and sometimes indirect, connections to crime. A college student interviews female killers as research for his thesis. A thief specializes in a certain macabre brand of merchandise that he sells exclusively on the Darknet. A husband and wife swinger team get in over their heads during an out-of-town weekend tryst. With stories written in narrative and editorial styles, Raistlin Skelley presents an unflinching look at the lives of average Americans and their dark past-times with a sharp morbid wit, furious unflinching hard-boiled detail, and a flagrant disregard for moral and social norms.
Available at Amazon: https://amzn.to/2WCb5Pa
Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/3zwEbxt
Kindle: https://amzn.to/38shQVX
Kobo: https://bit.ly/38uDNDK
Seventeen Words for Rain by Douglas Morrison
Seventeen Words for Rain
Hi all,
I have just published my fourth book, and it is a bit diff from my previous.
To begin with I had it edited for errors, which is a first :)
Second, its a very short read.
Anyway, here is the blurb!
Two Noir stories set in a distant, decaying world.
The first, a stranger comes to town, a bad man, in a town facing its last days. When he leaves, there will be a trail of bodies, some deserving, some not so. And one person facing a hard choice.
The second, an insight into the dark past that helped create the man and the world.
A mixture of Sci-Fi and Classic Noir in a future Dystopian Society.
Anyway, it is free on Kindle Unlimited and worth a read, probably.
Seventeen Words for Rain
Hi all,
I have just published my fourth book, and it is a bit diff from my previous.
To begin with I had it edited for errors, which is a first :)
Second, its a very short read.
Anyway, here is the blurb!
Two Noir stories set in a distant, decaying world.
The first, a stranger comes to town, a bad man, in a town facing its last days. When he leaves, there will be a trail of bodies, some deserving, some not so. And one person facing a hard choice.
The second, an insight into the dark past that helped create the man and the world.
A mixture of Sci-Fi and Classic Noir in a future Dystopian Society.
Anyway, it is free on Kindle Unlimited and worth a read, probably.
As a bit of a follow-on, I intend to publish a book a month as a ongoing storyline for the next 4 to 5 months. I am already part way through the next story and ahead of time.
Equally if you read it and have some input or ideas, throw them in the pot, I am always happy to discuss.
Equally if you read it and have some input or ideas, throw them in the pot, I am always happy to discuss.
If anyone here is interested in street crime fiction, please check out my book, Ice Rising. It’s a gritty tale of a future crime kingpin’s rise to power in the streets of the fictional city of El Paraíso.Ice Rising https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736757415/...
Hi guys. I’m a huge fan of crime novels, thrillers and hardboiled fiction of all kinds. I’m also a television writer — I created the syfy series ASCENSION, worked on many others, and directed the divisive indie thriller EAT ME. I’ve recently written my first novella, BITE THE BULLET, a stylish street crime noir and I am actively looking for ARC readers to give it an honest review here on GoodReads if anyone is interested. It comes out May 14th 2024 from NEOTEXT, so if you have the time to read and review in the next 2 weeks hit me up! I’d be super grateful — it’s like the unholy offspring of Elmore Leonard, Dylan Thomas and just a touch of Eminem’s lyrical flare.
CRIMSON SUNRISE: 1970s HARDBOILED CRIME THRILLEREmily Quinn review of the book...
An intense, fast-paced crime thriller
This book was exactly what I needed to read; a short crime thriller that really packs a punch. It's gritty, fast-paced and pulls off an intense and suspenseful plot with style. It was so easy to binge-read!
Despite it being a shorter read, it has everything you could want; characters you love and love to hate, a complex romance, gun fights, car chases, gore, death, you name it. The author’s writing style had me gripped, with descriptions that effortlessly transport you into any scene. A thrilling, intense and engrossing read. Can’t wait to read more from this author!
C.K. wrote: "CRIMSON SUNRISE: 1970s HARDBOILED CRIME THRILLEREmily Quinn review of the book...
An intense, fast-paced crime thriller
This book was exactly what I needed to read; a short crim..."
Sounds intriguing. Will look it up. Thanks for tip, CK.
CRIMSON SUNRISE: 1970s HARDBOILED CRIME THRILLERWhat Emily Quinn said about Crimson Sunrise...
This book was exactly what I needed to read; a short crime thriller that really packs a punch. It's gritty, fast-paced and pulls off an intense and suspenseful plot with style. It was so easy to binge-read!
Despite it being a shorter read, it has everything you could want; characters you love and love to hate, a complex romance, gun fights, car chases, gore, death, you name it. The author’s writing style had me gripped, with descriptions that effortlessly transport you into any scene. A thrilling, intense and engrossing read. Can’t wait to read more from this author!
It's only $1.00 at the moment - enjoy!
C.K.
Hi everyone, Just a quick line to announce that CRIMSON SUNRISE - 1970s HARDBOILED CRIME THRILLER by C.K. SMITH will be FREE to download on Amazon as an eBook from today until Monday 11th November. Enjoy! :)https://www.amazon.com/CRIMSON-SUNRIS...
Greetings! I'm Brett Marlo. I'm new to goodreads and a new author in general.I've just released The Santa Alvera Murders, a mystery thriller with heavy pulp influences. In fact, I dare say it is my version of a "modern" pulp novel. This is my first fiction book, but it has been very well received by readers so far, and I'm quite proud of it.
Here's my blurb:
Haunted by a troubled past, a mysterious woman arrives on the island of Santa Alvera for music, daiquiris, and a chance to disappear. But when a string of eerie, almost otherworldly murders grips the island, relaxation turns to obsession as she sets out to track down the killer.
Entangled in a dangerous game of deception, misdirection, and greed, she must solve cryptic clues left behind in the books of a long-dead writer to uncover the true motive for the killings.
But when the killer turns his attention to her, she must use her wits, courage, and a pair of .45 caliber handguns to put an end to him before her own dark secrets become exposed.
The Santa Alvera Murders is meant to be a fun read and I hope you will enjoy it!
It is available on Amazon and is currently available on Kindle Unlimited.
The Santa Alvera Murders.
The Santa Alvera Murders.
Brett, the blurb is interesting, looks like a good book.
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