Novella Noir | Audio Dramas

HOLLYWOOD NOIR Hollywood, 1948. Walt Cready runs the projector at Monarch Pictures' private screening room, where powerful men say things, they'd never say in daylight. He's been furniture for eleven years — invisible, unremarkable, forgotten. Then a young actress leaves his booth alive and turns up dead before morning, and the studio's legal machine rebuilds the night around him b...

MARITIME NOIR  The Andaman Sea looks like paradise from the right angle. Cal Morrow stopped looking for those angles a long time ago. He runs a battered dive boat out of a Thai marina, keeps the fuel account barely alive, and asks only the questions that won't cost him anything. When a premium charter arrives — cash deposit, custom coordinates, no complications — he takes the job because a man...

SPORTS NOIR  Sal Ferrera has spent thirty years stopping the bleeding. Not training fighters, not managing them — just working the corner with cold iron and steady hands, invisible by design. When his best prospect goes down in the sixth round of a fight, he should have won easily, Sal watches the replay and sees something that can't be unseen. Now a sharp-eyed woman is sliding evidence across...

ISOLATION NOIR Six weeks into Antarctic winter-over, the sun stopped rising, and the base commander stopped breathing. Ray Decker is the cook — the only man on the ice without a doctorate, without a theory, without anything to protect. He has a bourbon habit, a dead man's folder, and seventy-two hours before the satellite uplink opens. The darkness outside is absolute. The darkness inside is w...

MARITIME NOIR The Adriatic, autumn 1944. The war is almost over — but almost is doing a lot of work.  Miro Vukić has survived occupation by mastering the art of not caring. As harbor master on a small Dalmatian island, he asks no questions, keeps clean ledgers, and drinks with professional discipline. Then a sweating British officer arrives with Swiss francs, a tight deadline, and a request for a...

INSTITUTIONAL NOIR The city runs on paper. Contracts, case files, evidence logs—the machinery of justice reduced to documents, and documents reduced, eventually, to confetti. Arthur Voss knows this better than anyone. Three years feeding the shredder in the basement of the municipal building, and he's learned the first rule of working for people with something to hide: don't look at what y...

INSTITUTIONAL NOIR The Callowell Hotel doesn't appear in any guidebook. That's the point. Milo Crane runs the night desk from eleven to seven, cashing generous paychecks to ask no questions and push the right buttons at the right times. Three years in, he's mastered the art of looking at everything and seeing nothing — a skill the hotel pays handsomely for. Then a guest arrives at 3 AM...

INSTITUTIONAL NOIR Arthur Voss writes obituaries for a dying newspaper—a job that's killed whatever idealism he once had. When his editor assigns him a rush obituary for the city's beloved mayor, there's just one problem: the man is alive and giving a speech on live TV. Worse, the obituary describes tomorrow's "accidental" death in disturbing detail. Arthur has twelve hou...

WORKING-CLASS NOIR A parking valet scraping the bottom of a city that's forgotten he exists. A luxury car that costs more than his life. One small, stupid mistake on a rain-slicked night — the kind of mistake that should have meant a write-up and a docked paycheck. It doesn't mean that. What Eddie Malone finds when he opens that trunk will give him exactly ten minutes to decide what kind o...

LEGAL NOIR The courtroom is supposed to be where truth lives. For Elena Voss, it's where truth goes to be buried. She has one job: translate. Eleven years rendering the broken confessions of her own people into the clean language of the law. She's good at it. Too good. When Mattias Kellner takes the stand, Elena understands every word he says. That's the problem. Because understanding...

ART NOIR An art appraiser walks into what should be a routine museum job—authenticate a collection, collect the fee, move on. But when his scanner reveals a barcode hidden beneath a 17th-century masterpiece, Daniel Dorsett uncovers a fraud that goes deeper than forged paintings. The curator has secrets worth killing for, and the vault door is already closing. In a world where history is whatever w...

POLITICAL NOIR Marcus Hale is a washed-up ghostwriter drowning in debt and whiskey when he's hired to finish the memoirs of Senator William Cartwright, a dying political legend who can no longer speak. The pay is suspiciously generous. The deadline is tight. And the senator's old journals contain secrets that powerful people would kill to keep buried. As Marcus races to capture the senator...

URBAN NOIR Frank Mallory has been running the midnight subway for seventeen years—a graveyard shift for a man already dead inside. But when his train refuses to stop and the radio goes silent, he discovers his passengers aren't the usual night-crawlers. They're jurors from the city's biggest mob trial, and someone has turned his train into a tomb on rails. With communications cut and t...

RURAL NOIR When Thomas Garrett takes a job as replacement lighthouse keeper on a desolate rock, he discovers his predecessor has vanished and the logbook filled with cryptic warnings. As a violent storm approaches, Garrett uncovers a deadly conspiracy: someone has been using the beacon to lure ships onto the rocks for salvage. With a luxury liner carrying three hundred souls heading straight into...

HOLLYWOOD NOIR Eddie Novak is a washed-up Foley artist drowning in bourbon and bad decisions when a slick director offers him five hundred dollars for one perfect scream. It should be easy money—until Eddie discovers the scream he delivered isn't acting. It's real. And the woman who made it is dead. Now Eddie's caught between a studio that buries scandals deeper than bodies, a dead sta...

DOMESTIC NOIR In the dead hours of insomnia, David Chen's new baby monitor picks up more than his daughter's breathing. Through the static, he hears voices—cold, calculating voices planning a kidnapping. When he discovers the conspiracy reaches into the police department itself, he faces an impossible choice: let it happen or risk everything to stop it. But in Riverside's rain-soaked s...

CORPORATE NOIR Vincent Carver mops floors in a cryonics facility where the wealthy sleep frozen, dreaming of immortality. It's a graveyard shift in a mausoleum for the rich—until he discovers what's rotting in the basement. The Economy Wing holds two hundred bodies and a secret worth killing for. When Carver tries to expose the truth, he learns that in a world where death is just another b...

Corporate Noir In the decaying neighborhood of the Flats, pharmacist Carmen Reyes survives on "willful blindness" and the rhythm of counting pills—until the medicine itself begins to fail. When patients start dying from what looks like a manufacturing fluke, Carmen uncovers a conspiracy that transforms her from a cynical observer into a target of the very system she serves. In a world wh...

Tech-Noir Marcus Webb is a man drowning in debt and disillusionment, navigating the rain-slicked streets of a city that has already chewed him up. When a mysterious "Black Tier" opportunity flashes on his RideNow app promising a life-changing payout, the desperate driver accepts a high-stakes delivery with no questions asked. But in a world of neon shadows and shifting loyalties, Marcus...

Tech-Noir In the sterile, high-tech corridors of Meridian Heights, security drone pilot Kara Webb spends her shifts monitoring a "smart" utopia where every smile is tracked and every street is sanitized. But when she spots a flickering black square—a "dead pixel"—over a powerful politician’s eye, the flawless digital veneer begins to crack. Her pursuit of the truth leads her fr...

Hardboiled Noir Thomas Carver was an architect who touched the sky until the Riverside Tower collapse buried his reputation under twelve bodies. Now a disgraced alcoholic living in the shadows, he is offered a chilling "second chance" by a smooth-talking developer with ties to the Russian mob. The mission: design a luxury skyscraper with a lethal structural flaw buried in its foundation....

Hardboiled Noir Marcus Webb was a rising star in the culinary world until gambling debts turned his life into a slow-burn disaster. Desperate to escape collectors, he accepts a high-paying, "discreet" catering gig in the city’s industrial heart. But in a kitchen with no windows and top-tier gear, the ingredients don't come from a farm. Marcus soon discovers he isn't just cooking...

Corporate Noir Caroline Vance is a "professional executioner" for Meridian Industries, specialized in the cold art of terminating high-level careers. Her detachment shatters when she discovers a lethal pattern: every executive she fires who has knowledge of a toxic company secret ends up dead within forty-eight hours. Now, as she prepares for a final interview with a marked man, Caroline...

Psychological Noir For eight years, insurance claims investigator Sarah Vance has been catching frauds and certifying natural causes with professional detachment—until her supervisor shows her a statistical impossibility: seventeen consecutive natural deaths, all elderly clients of the same estate management company, all signed off by Sarah herself. But as Sarah digs deeper into what might be a se...

Mediterranean Noir In the decaying port of Kalamos, aging fisherman Kostas Makris has survived thirty-seven years by perfecting one skill: seeing nothing. When he witnesses a murder on the docks and stays silent, he expects the incident to fade like all the others—but the killer returns to thank him, and Kostas finds himself drawn into a web of antiquities smuggling that runs from the warehouses h...