Shifter Noir: A Hard-Boiled Shifter Adventure

by A C Mitchell

Jack Mercer doesn’t take shifter clients. Emma Clover is a good argument for keeping that rule.

Central City wears its sunshine like an alibi. Jack has a licence, a .38 and an empty house. Then Emma arrives with a missing sister and a hundred dollars. The trail leads to the Midnight Room, where Lily’s name makes conversation difficult.

With Emma breaching his guard and a cat-shifter detective on his case, Jack’s solitary life is getting dangerously crowded.

Shifter Noir blends hard-boiled urban fantasy mystery, explicit romance and a growing harem.

402 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 5, 2026

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 1.5 out of 5]

This skirts the line of what is considered haremlit. The second "LI" wants to be in a relationship with the first LI, and the feeling is mutual, whether the MC is okay with it or not. The 2nd girl's main focus of affection is the first LI with the MC being a consolation prize. This borders on sharing/cheating because the women want to be with each other, and the MC has to suck it up and deal with it.

I recommend if you don't mind the MC being sidelined in his own relationship(s).

[GrumpyOldMan · Rating 1 out of 5]

I discovered by page 8 that the MC smokes. Having grown up in the 70s/80s, I loathe smoking and the smell it leaves in your clothes/hair. The fact that the MC is going to be dealing with shifters with extra sharp sense of smell makes this a curiously bad decision on the author's part. Especially since he's a private investigator who presumably needs to snoop, but shifters will smell him easily if the wind is blowing the wrong way. So I dropped reading it at that point.