Urban Noir Books

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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 381,017 ratings — published 2000
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The Long Way Down (Daniel Faust, #1) The Long Way Down (Daniel Faust, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 6,502 ratings — published 2014
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Three-Fifths Three-Fifths (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,449 ratings — published 2019
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Sirens (Aidan Waits Thriller, #1) Sirens (Aidan Waits Thriller, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4,398 ratings — published 2017
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Wrecked (IQ, #3) Wrecked (IQ, #3)
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avg rating 3.91 — 5,446 ratings — published 2018
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Something from the Nightside (Nightside, #1) Something from the Nightside (Nightside, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 25,681 ratings — published 2003
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The Night Gardener The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 6,653 ratings — published 2006
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Black Dog Blues (Kai Gracen, #1) Black Dog Blues (Kai Gracen, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 2,179 ratings — published 2013
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Magic Rises (Kate Daniels, #6) Magic Rises (Kate Daniels, #6)
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avg rating 4.44 — 63,089 ratings — published 2013
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Gunmetal Magic (Kate Daniels, #5.5; World of Kate Daniels, #6 & #6.5; Andrea Nash, #1) Gunmetal Magic (Kate Daniels, #5.5; World of Kate Daniels, #6 & #6.5; Andrea Nash, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-noir)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,740 ratings — published 2012
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The Devil You Know (Felix Castor, #1) The Devil You Know (Felix Castor, #1)
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avg rating 3.81 — 17,368 ratings — published 2006
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Dead Men's Boots (Felix Castor, #3) Dead Men's Boots (Felix Castor, #3)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7,963 ratings — published 2007
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Vicious Circle (Felix Castor, #2) Vicious Circle (Felix Castor, #2)
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avg rating 3.98 — 9,285 ratings — published 2006
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Ever After (The Hollows, #11) Ever After (The Hollows, #11)
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avg rating 4.45 — 34,160 ratings — published 2013
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Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson, #7) Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson, #7)
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avg rating 4.36 — 79,582 ratings — published 2013
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A Perfect Blood (The Hollows, #10) A Perfect Blood (The Hollows, #10)
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avg rating 4.39 — 38,437 ratings — published 2012
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Black Magic Sanction (The Hollows, #8) Black Magic Sanction (The Hollows, #8)
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avg rating 4.37 — 48,824 ratings — published 2010
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Fair Game (Alpha & Omega, #3) Fair Game (Alpha & Omega, #3)
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avg rating 4.34 — 57,686 ratings — published 2012
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Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, #5) Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, #5)
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avg rating 4.37 — 113,645 ratings — published 2010
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White Witch, Black Curse (The Hollows, #7) White Witch, Black Curse (The Hollows, #7)
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avg rating 4.34 — 51,850 ratings — published 2009
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Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4) Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)
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avg rating 4.33 — 116,384 ratings — published 2010
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Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2) Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
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avg rating 4.30 — 136,362 ratings — published 2007
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One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress, #2) One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress, #2)
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avg rating 4.28 — 108,860 ratings — published 2008
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Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, #2) Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, #2)
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avg rating 4.30 — 94,985 ratings — published 2008
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The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, #6) The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, #6)
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avg rating 4.37 — 58,524 ratings — published 2008
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Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3) Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)
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avg rating 4.34 — 131,674 ratings — published 2008
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Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5) Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5)
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avg rating 4.40 — 80,324 ratings — published 2011
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Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels, #4) Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels, #4)
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avg rating 4.43 — 90,106 ratings — published 2010
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Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3) Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3)
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avg rating 4.43 — 91,736 ratings — published 2009
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The Shadow Reader (Shadow Reader, #1) The Shadow Reader (Shadow Reader, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 9,964 ratings — published 2011
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“He loved the city most at night. The night hid many of the sorrows. It silenced the city yet brought deep undercurrents to the surface. It was in this dark slip-stream that he believed he moved most freely. Behind the cover of shadows. Like a rider in a limousine, he looked out but no one looked in.

There was a random feel to the dark, the quirkiness of chance played out in the blue neon night. So many ways to live. And to die. You could be riding in the back of a studio's black limo, or just as easily the back of the coroner's blue van. The sound of applause was the same as the buzz of a bullet spinning past your ear in the dark. That randomness. That was L.A.

There was flash fire and flash flood, earthquake, mudslide. There was the drive-by shooter and the crack-stoked burglar. The drunk driver and the always curving road ahead. There were killer cops and cop killers. There was the husband of the woman you were sleeping with. And there was the woman. At any moment on any night there were people being raped, violated, maimed. Murdered and loved. There was always a baby at his mother's breast. And, sometimes, a baby alone in a Dumpster.

Somewhere.”
Michael Connelly, The Black Ice