Mystery and Thrillers

Joseph Matthews
A vivid picture of a city and a moment, the novel brilliantly reveals the explosive admixture of the deeply personal and the deeply political.

Owen Hill • Foreword by Jonathan Lethem
Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area’s radical bohemia and bookselling.

Edward Bellamy
This volume collects nine of Bellamy's finest tales of genre-defying mystery and deep-imagination speculative fiction.

Kenneth Wishnia
A highly unconventional crime novel that presents two parallel stories separated by twenty-five centuries.

Kyle Decker
Many of the story's themes revolve around the tough front Alex puts up but ultimately peels back, subverting the trope of the ultramasculine hard-boiled hero.

Jim Feast
A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events.

Joseph Matthews
A vivid picture of a city and a moment, the novel brilliantly reveals the explosive admixture of the deeply personal and the deeply political.

Kenneth Wishnia & Chantelle Aimée Osman
A unique collection of stories by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors.

Michael Fine
Julia, an American medical doctor fleeing her privileged background, and Carl whose experiences as a black man in the U.S. led him to volunteer in Africa come together as Liberia is gripped in a brutal civil war.

Kenneth Wishnia
Wishnia construye una novela rica en paisajes, sonidos y peligros de Ecuador, además provee una mirada irresistible sobre las raíces de una de las heroínas más dinámicas del género ficción criminal.

Diana Block
Told from the points of view of five women over four decades, this book explores the difficult decisions and confrontations made at the boundaries of legality and speculates about the scope of clandestine action in the future.

Editor: Kenneth Wishnia
Jewish Noir is unique collection of all-new stories by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors.

Joseph Matthews
Based on historical records. A small, slight seventeen-year-old Polish-German Jew named Herschel Grynszpan entered the German embassy in Paris and shot dead a consular official leading to the Night of Broken Glass.

John Barker
Three worlds collide in Thatcher's Britain.

Kenneth Wishnia
Wishnia provides a novel rich with the sights, sounds—and dangers—of Ecuador, and a compelling look at the provenance of one of mystery fiction's most dynamic heroines.

Kenneth Wishnia
A Washington Post Rave Book of the Year

Kenneth Wishnia
When Filomena moves in near a glass factory in a rundown Long Island neighborhood, her nose for trouble draws her into a case full of dangerous secrets while juggling the demands of raising her daughter and a new romance.

Kenneth Wishnia
From the labyrinthine subway tunnels of upper Broadway to the upscale enclaves that house the rich and beautiful, from local barrio hangouts to high-priced seats of power, with some unexpected stops in between.

Jim Nisbet
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the night turn into crimes done in the light of day—or from the glow of a smartphone.

Kenneth Wishnia
Set in NYC during the early 1980s, this kick-ass and conscious crime novel was nominated for the Edgar and the Anthony Awards, and made Booklist's Best First Mystery.

Tomoyuki Hoshino
A man and woman find their genders and sexualities brought radically into question when their bodies sprout new parts, seemingly out of thin air.

Summer Brenner
Written in prose as stark and beautiful as New Mexico's landscape where violence bursts in starts and fits like the summer monsoons.

Sin Soracco
Edge City takes place in an every-noir-city (a thinly veiled portrait of San Francisco’s North Beach), and its newest resident is Reno, an angry fledgling just hatched out of prison.

James Kilgore
White ex-convict Cal Winter returns home one day to find his gorgeous, young, black wife, Prudence, drowned in the swimming pool. Prudence couldn’t swim and Cal concludes she didn’t go in the water willingly.

Barry Graham
The dark ghost who haunts every blood-spattered crime scene in Phoenix does exist. "The Kid" has a love of cooking and reading with an appetite for violence, but he's ready to escape into the arms of the beautiful Vanjii.