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"

No Song for the Dead (Department Q #11)
Como bestias
The Intrigue
Small Mercies
Gråterskan
Green City Wars
Wolf Hour
Las madres (Elena Blanco, #4)
Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
Penance
Reykjavík
La bestia
The Final Six
Hildur (Hildur, #1)
A Gambling Man (Archer, #2)
Hidden in Lies (The Åre Murders, #4)
The Final Score
Soft Core
Jakob (Hildur, #3)
Spindeln (Joona Linna, #9)
Locked In (Department Q, #10)
Rósa & Björk (Hildur, #2)
The Shadow Murders (Department Q, #9)
Hidden in Memories (The Åre Murders, #3)
Halcyon Years
The Girl with Ice in Her Veins (Millennium #8)
Entre los muertos
Midnight and Blue (Inspector Rebus #25)
Heat 2
Crone
Even Though I Knew the End
Shadow Ticket
The Mountain King (The Asker, #1)
Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer (Helgi, #2)
Miss Bee e il cadavere in biblioteca (Miss Bee #1)
Evil Genius
Blood Ties (Kongeriket, #2)
El hijo olvidado
Deepfake
Esperando al diluvio
Rakel (Hildur, #4)
The Stranger in the Seine
The Children of Eve (Charlie Parker, #22)
The Rust Forest: A Thriller (The Asker Series)
A Killing on the Hill
The Last King of California
Il gioco della notte
La gran serpiente
Tinna (Hildur, #5)
Five Gears In Reverse (Criminal #12)
El Dorado Drive
The Hadacol Boogie (Dave Robicheaux, #25)
Can’t Run, Can’t Hide
The Pale House Devil (Discreet Eliminators, #1)
Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
The Jealousy Man
Crooks
The Devil Takes You Home
Murder Under Her Skin (Pentecost and Parker, #2)
Dead First
Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)
Dark Ride
Dark Music (Rekke & Vargas, #1)
Outside
Welcome to Cooper
Vecchie conoscenze
A Man Named Doll (The Doll Series, #1)
The Night Always Comes
I tramezzini di Rocco Schiavone
Terapiassa (Terapiassa, #1)
Cahokia Jazz
1795
Un colpo al cuore (Le indagini di Mara Rais ed Eva Croce #2)
Into Thin Air (Jakob Weber, #1)
Som man sår (Sebastian Bergman, #7)
Crown Vic: Ray Boyd isn't Stupid / Occasional Risk (Crown Vic #1)
Isbrytare (Strindberg, #2)
Secrets Typed in Blood (Pentecost & Parker #3)
They All Fall Down, Part 2 (Blacksad, #7)
Alors, tout tombe - Première partie (Blacksad, #6)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Je suis un ange perdu
Enemy of My Enemy: A Daredevil Marvel Crime novel
Gættu þinna handa (Karólína, Týr & Iðunn #2)
The Lost Van Gogh
The Lost House
Long Chills and Case Dough
Le Bureau des affaires occultes (Le Bureau des affaires occultes #1)
Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7)
Blaze Me a Sun (Hallandssviten, #2)
April in Spain (Quirke, #8 and St. John Strafford, #3)
L'inconnu de la poste
De terugkeer van Mia (Holger Munch & Mia Krüger, #4)
Lucia
Sixteen Horses (Dr. Cooper Allen, #1)
The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
Shanghai
Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)
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A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

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