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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New Releases Tagged "Noir"

Tom's Crossing
Shadow Ticket
Mirage City (Evander Mills, #4)
Halcyon Years
A Killing on the Hill
Shadow Ticket
Hidden in Snow (The Åre Murders, #1)
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
The Girl with Ice in Her Veins (Millennium #8)
Rey blanco (Antonia Scott, #3)
La nena (Elena Blanco, #3)
Venetian Vespers
Wolf Hour: A Novel
Las madres (Elena Blanco, #4)
El mentiroso
Catedrales
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
Even Though I Knew the End
Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Maltese Falcon
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
Double Indemnity
The Thin Man
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
The Killer Inside Me
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
In a Lonely Place

Raymond Chandler
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

Behcet Kaya
A long walk. A very long walk. Sand between my toes. The rough surf at times reaching and washing away my footprints. About a mile down the beach, I sat down and started thinking back through everything Vance had told me so far. Thought about what my next moves would be. Seeing the Asian guy tomorrow and having him snoop would settle one thing in my mind. Did Vance do it or not? Crucial. Until I knew that, I didn’t want to go any further.
Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

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