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Dietrich Kalteis
For readers of Elmore Leonard and George Pelecanos, a tense crime novel set in mob-filled Chicago during the 1920s Prohibition
It's 1920 and the start of Prohibition. Circumstances beyond his…
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This novel, based on a true story, follows the criminal career of Alvin Karpis, a Chicago gangster in the 1930s. Karpis joins forces with the notorious Barker Gang as they…
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Bounty hunter Karl Morgen goes after Miro Knotts on a skipped bond, finding the dope dealer wrapped around an underaged girl at a rave in Seattle. Dragging Miro in the…
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Rennie Beckman is a dishonored ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish, and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki. After the two unknowingly…
After being set up for a crime he didn’t commit and having his barroom, House of Blazes, seized, Levi Hayes returns from San Quentin Prison and he’s out for gold…
An edgy, fast-paced story of gangsters, danger, and drug smuggling set to the cranking beat and amphetamine buzz of the birth of Vancouver’s punk rock scene in the late 1970s.
To win over the girl of his dreams, Jeff Nichols succumbs to the lure of easy (dirty) money in this crime caper set in the 80s.
Grey Stevens now grows the best pot in Whistler. He just wants to take life easy, but when he rescues a girl from a beating at the hands of a…
Lenny works for a ruthless gangster in Toronto, and his days are spent terrorising the locals into paying protection on their shops. But Lenny has debts of his own, and…
A robbery, a car theft, a kidnapping – all lead to a temporary hideout in small-town British Columbia. The money, underwater in the trunk of a car, becomes the desired…
When long retired cop, Fitch Henry Haut, sees two men forcing a runaway girl into their vehicle, he steps in and gets the upper hand. He and the girl escape…
Meet Depression-era newlyweds Bennie and Stella. He’s reckless, she’s naive. Longing for freedom from tough times, they rob a bank. Soon they top the FBI’s Most Wanted list. So much…
A rainmaker comes to a Midwestern town in the dust bowl, promising to save the community from drought. But tensions arise between the punitive stranger and townfolk when the rain…
Following the success of Montreal Noir and Toronto Noir, the Noir Series travels to the west coast of Canada.
