Noir at the Bar

Lady Georgia Brunel, widowed a year, has been looking forward to her holiday in the Duchy of Venice with her companion, Millicent Brunel. The clockwork city’s annual art exhibition is in full swing, and old friends and new acquaintances make for an exciting social whirl. The married Sir Francis Thorne would pursue her if he dared. Several members of the nobility, including those with connections t...

Marco Carocari Reads his short story from the 2023 Saints & Sinners Anthology Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shamus Award Finalist for Best First PI novel; Winner of Two Claymore Awards from Killer Nashville, including Best Comedy A recovering addict and former child star, Jimmy Cooper gets a second shot at fame as a “famous” private detective in Los Angeles. After cratering his career with booze, pills and public humiliations, Jimmy has started over, working at his Mom’s law firm as the in-house detecti...

Shamus Award Finalist for Best First PI novel; Winner of Two Claymore Awards from Killer Nashville, including Best Comedy A recovering addict and former child star, Jimmy Cooper gets a second shot at fame as a “famous” private detective in Los Angeles. After cratering his career with booze, pills and public humiliations, Jimmy has started over, working at his Mom’s law firm as the in-house detecti...

“Hamilton has never been better.” — Publishers Weekly  (starred review)  When a new security gig turns into a setup, expert thief Van Shaw finds himself the prey in a cross-country pursuit—in this electrifying sixth novel in Glen Erik Hamilton’s pulse-pounding and emotionally resonant thriller series.   Van Shaw is hired to evaluate the safeguards for the art collection of eccentric...

“I was ten years old when I found a murder weapon…it had killed ‘The Girl with the Opal Fingers’…” Welsh Canadian professor of criminal psychology Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are visiting Cait’s sister, Siân, and brother-in-law, Todd, in Australia. They’re enjoying the bustling delights of Sydney, and looking forward to a few quiet days in the famed Blue Mountains. Howev...

Authors reading tonight are James D.F. Hannah - They Shall Take up Serpents, Joe Clifford - Say My Name, and Rob Osler - Cirque Du Slay! Hosts are Alan Warren, Joe Goldberg, and John Copenhaver. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonight's authors reading; Gary Phillips - Unvarnished - The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection - Kindle edition by Phillips, Gary. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Gerald Elias - Murder on Vacation - Amazon.com: Gerald Elias: books, biography, latest update James L'Etoile - Face of Greed - Amazon.com: Face of Greed (A Detective Emily Hunter Mystery): 9781608095...

Gary Phillips will be reading from his Novel - The Unvarnished! Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an 17-story collection that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero classics. Aztec vampires, astral projecting killers, oxygen stealing bombs, undercover space rangers, alien...

Gerald Elias will be reading from his upcoming novel - Murder on Vacation! Amazon.com: Gerald Elias: books, biography, latest update Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James L'Etoile will be reading from his novel ' Face of Greed' Face of Greed (A Detective Emily Hunter Mystery) - Kindle edition by L'Etoile, James. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Greed, corruption, and betrayal—no murder is as simple as it seems When a prominent Sacramento businessman is killed and his wife injured in a brutal home invasion, Detective Emily Hunter an...

Tonight's authors reading are: Wanda Morris - 'What You Leave Behind' - What You Leave Behind: A Novel - Kindle edition by Morris, Wanda M.. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Michael Balter - 'Chasing Money' - Chasing Money: A Marty and Bo Thriller - Kindle edition by Balter, Michael. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Leslie Karst - Molton Death! - Molten Deat...

Tonight Leslie Karst reads from her novel ' Molton Death' Molten Death (An Orchid Isle Mystery) - Kindle edition by Karst, Leslie. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. A glimpse of a quickly melting corpse at the foot of a volcano has amateur sleuth and food enthusiast Valerie Corbin shocked. But how can she investigate a murder, when there's no evidence the victim ever existed? Th...

Tonight Author Michael balter reads from his novel - Chasing Money! Chasing Money: A Marty and Bo Thriller - Kindle edition by Balter, Michael. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Winner - 2024 Feathered Quill Award - Mystery, Thriller, Suspense Winner - 2023 Best Indie Book Award - Crime Thriller A missing masterpiece. A deadly threat. A desperate search. Marty and Bo were just t...

Tonight Author Wanda Morris reads from her upcoming new novel ' What You leave Behind' What You Leave Behind: A Novel - Kindle edition by Morris, Wanda M.. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who after the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner and the death of his sister just mo...

Tonight authors reading; John Copenhaver - Hall of Mirrors - Amazon.com: Hall of Mirrors: A Novel (A Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson Mystery): 9781639366507: Copenhaver, John: Books Connie Berry - A Collection of Lies - A Collection of Lies (A Kate Hamilton Mystery Book 5) - Kindle edition by Berry, Connie. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Tracy Clark - Fall - Amaz...

Tonight's authors reading; Carl Vonderau - Amazon.com: Saving Myles eBook : Vonderau, Carl: Books Adam Sikes - Landslide (A Mason Hackett Espionage Thriller Book 1) - Kindle edition by Sikes, Adam. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Ed Aymar - Amazon.com: When She Left: A Thriller eBook : Aymar, E.A.: Kindle Store Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

Author Winona Kent reads from her book 'Notes on a Missing G-String' The first time we met Jason Davey, he was entertaining passengers aboard the Alaska cruise ship Star Sapphire, Eight ‘til Late in the TopDeck Lounge. Then he came ashore, got a gig playing lead guitar at London’s Blue Devil jazz club, and gained a certain amount of notoriety tracking down missing musician Ben Quigley in the Canad...

Author Carl Vonderau reads from his Novel 'Saving Myles' When the FBI can' t help, an unassuming banker takes matters into his own hands to bring his son home Wade, a respected banker in La Jolla, CA, and his estranged wife, Fiona, make the unbearable decision to send their teenage son, Myles, away to an expensive treatment center after a streak of harmful behavior. After a year of treatment, Myle...

U.S. Marine veteran Mason Hackett moved to London to start his life over, and he's done his best to convince himself that what happened fifteen years ago doesn't matter—the people he killed, the men he lost, the lives he ruined. But when Mason sees the face of a dead friend flash on a television screen and then receives a mysterious email referencing a CIA operation gone bad, he can no longer igno...

E.A. Aymar reads from a short story of his 'Your Purchase is Complete' Multiple Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar’s next thriller, When She Left, will be published February 2024 and has been called, by New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Straub, “crime fiction at its finest.” His previous thriller, No Home for Killers, received praise from the New York Times, Kirkus, the South Florida Sun-Senti...

Author Iona Whishaw reads from her book ' To Track A Traitor' With events spanning both world wars, the tenth installment in the Lane Winslow mystery—which first began with the bestselling adventure A Killer in King's Cove—series is a transatlantic tale of sibling rivalry, infidelity, and espionage. It’s an early morning in May when Lane is pulled from a deep sleep by a concerning phone call from...

Author Judy Penz Sheluk reads from her book 'Skeletons in the Attic' Calamity (Callie) Barnstable isn’t surprised to learn she’s the sole beneficiary of her late father’s estate, though she is shocked to discover she has inherited a house in the town of Marketville—a house she didn’t know he had. However, there are conditions attached to Callie’s inheritance: she must move to Marketville, live in...

Author Connie Berry reads from her novel ' A Collection of Lies' In USA Today bestselling author Connie Berry’s fifth Kate Hamilton mystery, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton follows bloodstained clues to discover the truth about the murder of a modern-day Victorian gentleman. As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace t...

Author Tracy Clark reads from her Novel Fall - Detective Foster Book 2 In the second book in the Detective Harriet Foster thriller series, author Tracy Clark weaves a twisted journey into the underbelly of Chicago as Harriet and her team work to unmask a serial killer stalking the city’s aldermen. The Chicago PD is on high alert when two city aldermen are found dead: one by apparent suicide, one b...