Noir again. Killing Suki Flood by Rob Leininger - The opening of this novel is perhaps the most hilarious and noir … Breathless action? Hilarious humor, albeit of a generally dark variety? His second in the series comes out in March, and we can’t wait to continue the series that’s setting a new standard for seediness.David Joy’s latest, like the rest of his growing oeuvre, embodies the simplest and most evocative definition of noir: “Starts bad, gets worse.” In Iglesias brings a visceral intensity to his exploration of a borderlands region called “La Frontera,” a place of great emotion and great suffering, one filled with modern-day prophets, immigrants, predators, and the innocent, too. Merriam-Webster defines noir as “ crime fiction featuring hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings.” (Yes, it’s also the French word for “black.”) It’s a fantastic, atmospheric subset of the mystery genre, if fatalistic fiction (almost always) featuring femme fatales is your idea of fun.
Hill, Jackson, and Rizzuto seem to know 1930s L.A. like the back of their hands, and readers get to tag along as they meander down every side street and corner store Marlowe passes in the course of his investigation. Alan Parks burst onto the international scene with his harder-than-hard-boiled novel of borderline-vigilante cops and dastardly deeds, set to a perfect backdrop of the sounds and…er…razed tenements of 1970s Scotland. Noir. A classic mystery of blackmail and murder, this novel gave … Michael Connelly’s The Longmire series has always been on the borderlands between noir and westerns, but none more so than the latest installment, McDermid’s Karen Pirie series, now five books strong and charging ahead, is the perfect literature for an era obsessed with cold cases and forensic mysteries. Fernandez’s new case has him looking into a bizarre and sprawling cult operation, as well as a crooked politician, and since this is Florida, you can rest assured there are some land deals here, too. Whatever kind of reading you like best in life, you can find your match in a good noir detective novel. Great stories with complex plots? His traumas and addictions are all his own, and in Sure it makes sense to put Raymond Chandler on a list of the year’s best noir, but really we’re giving the nod here to the editors of this impressive new edition, which is a noir-lover’s dream—a learned and endlessly engaging piece of scholarship that supplies every bit of context you could ever want for this Chandler classic. To make our selection process more reader-friendly, we divided our selections into three categories: Private Eyes, Police / Procedural, and that most ineffable, expansive, and existential of labels: straight-up Noir. Joe Ide first entered onto the mystery scene two years ago with The latest installment of Segura’s Pete Fernandez series is a return to Miami, Fernandez’s hometown and a crime fiction mecca with good reason: noir thrives in the sunny, strange climes of southern Florida. Oliver himself has a few scores to settle, as a setup put him in jail and lost him his badge. Oliver’s Brooklyn is a tumult of gentrification, transplants, and old timers still working hustles to make some money off the borough’s new development while clinging to their old grudges.
Noir tends to be the crime world’s voice of conscience, fully on display in many of the works below, and the prominent presence of 1970s settings harkens back to the last great era of conspiracy fiction. More than anything, this is a love letter to the city of Los Angeles; also, a remarkable feat of noir scholarship.Crossing-over beloved series characters is tricky business. Like all of Mosley’s best work, this is a story about justice, knowledge, speaking truth to power, and the unseen entanglements that conspire to keep the little guy down.Sara Gran is known as an author’s author, and the whole mystery community cheered when she returned to the genre after a hiatus writing for prestige television. Fernandez is a haunted figure, but never a cliche. Her gritty portrait of desperate lives in the criminal underworld of North Florida is a fine addition to the already-substantial canon of Florida crime fiction.Aya de Leon writes scintillating heist novels full of quick turns, high action, and low deeds, and her Justice Hustlers series, featuring a stripper collective who rob the rich as their day job, is notable for both its unique set up and its powerful female figures. And Segura is the author to take it all on. Building out a noir vision of the American southwest, Post continues to distinguish herself as a stunning new voice in Floridian noir with her second to feature Judah Cannon and his ever-complicated kith and kin. This list is intended to highlight the best noir and hard-boiled fiction of the year, and we can assure you that the CrimeReads editors spent a significant amount of time agonizing over the hard choices we had to make—and what’s more noir than that?Mosley’s newest novel about cop turned convict turned private eye Joe King Oliver is as timely a look at modern-day New York as you’ll find anywhere in noir fiction. If you’ve fallen behind the curve on noir fiction, now’s the time to get on board that train, because some of the greatest novels ever written have fallen into this beloved, chameleonic genre.
In the right hands, it’s a masterful piece of world-building and an incredible thrill for readers. All That Glitters (A Jake & Laura Mystery, #2) by Michael Murphy (Goodreads Author) Segura takes on the madness with a deft wit but also soulfulness.
When a new case comes along working on behalf of a radical reporter accused of killing two police, Oliver’s past and present begin to intersect. In the latest installment, DCI Pirie, cold case detective extraordinaire, is called in for another case in the Scottish Highlands, this time investigating a bog body, with signs of an execution and connections to a family treasure, a story that circles round on itself and grows more insidious with each page. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1387.Best_Hardboiled_PI_Noir Mosley’s newest novel about cop turned convict turned private eye Joe King Oliver is as timely a look at modern-day New York as you’ll find anywhere in noir fiction. Joseph Knox, who’s worked as a bookseller for many years, uses his debut to both showcase his intimate knowledge of the genre and making his own unique stamp on modern noir.
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