🕵️ Postmodern Noir

Dark, labyrinthine narratives that take noir's shadows and moral ambiguity and refract them through unreliable narration, metafiction, and the suspicion that truth itself is a fiction.

Ajedrez para un detective novato

by Juan Soto Ivars • 2013

A ghostwriter framed for murder is recruited by the legendary detective who framed him.

2.89

📚 Detective Apprenticeship 🔪 Serial Killer Pursuit 💔 Doomed Romance

Ajedrez para un detective novato Summary

Ajedrez para un detective novato 91%

A ghostwriter framed for murder is recruited by the legendary detective who framed him.

by Juan Soto Ivars 2013

2.89

96 ratings

📚 Detective Apprenticeship 🔪 Serial Killer Pursuit 💔 Doomed Romance

Bleeding Edge

by Thomas Pynchon • 2013

A defrocked investigator follows a tech firm's money into a virtual underworld as catastrophe looms.

3.62

14k+

📖🔍 Postmodern Mystery 🗽 Pre-9/11 New York 👩‍💼 Female Investigator

Bleeding Edge 90%

A defrocked investigator follows a tech firm's money into a virtual underworld as catastrophe looms.

by Thomas Pynchon 2013

3.62

14k+ ratings

📖🔍 Postmodern Mystery 🗽 Pre-9/11 New York 👩‍💼 Female Investigator

The City & the City

by China Miéville • 2009

A detective's murder case forces him to see the city his people must ignore.

3.90

80k+

👮 Police Procedural 🕵️ Noir Detective 🏙️ Overlapping Cities

The City & the City 89%

A detective's murder case forces him to see the city his people must ignore.

by China Miéville 2009

3.90

80k+ ratings

👮 Police Procedural 🕵️ Noir Detective 🏙️ Overlapping Cities

The Ruined Map

by Kōbō Abe • 1967

When a salaryman vanishes, a detective follows a matchbox into a city where maps lead nowhere.

3.45

3k+

🖤 Existential Noir 🌃 Japanese Noir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

The Ruined Map 89%

When a salaryman vanishes, a detective follows a matchbox into a city where maps lead nowhere.

by Kōbō Abe 1967

3.45

3k+ ratings

🖤 Existential Noir 🌃 Japanese Noir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Speedboat

by Renata Adler • 1976

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

3.75

8k+

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation

Speedboat 89%

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

by Renata Adler 1976

3.75

8k+ ratings

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation

Night Film

by Marisha Pessl • 2013

A cult director's daughter dies, a ruined reporter digs, and the horror films start coming true.

3.78

96k+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🌀 Postmodern Mystery 📰 Investigative Journalism

Night Film 89%

A cult director's daughter dies, a ruined reporter digs, and the horror films start coming true.

by Marisha Pessl 2013

3.78

96k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🌀 Postmodern Mystery 📰 Investigative Journalism

Survivor

by Chuck Palahniuk • 1999

A cult survivor turned media star hijacks a plane to confess his life before it crashes.

3.93

125k+

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🔥 Cult Survival 📺 Media Satire

Survivor 89%

A cult survivor turned media star hijacks a plane to confess his life before it crashes.

by Chuck Palahniuk 1999

3.93

125k+ ratings

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🔥 Cult Survival 📺 Media Satire

The Escher Man

by T.R. Napper • 2024

A Macau hitman's syndicate is erasing his memory. The family he lost may be a lie.

3.83

434

🖤 Near-Future Noir 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔫 Hitman Protagonist

The Escher Man 89%

A Macau hitman's syndicate is erasing his memory. The family he lost may be a lie.

by T.R. Napper 2024

3.83

434 ratings

🖤 Near-Future Noir 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔫 Hitman Protagonist

Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy

by Paul Karasik • 2025

A wrong number draws a crime novelist into a fake detective case that erases his self.

4.08

466

🕵️ Postmodern Mystery 📖 Metafiction 👥 Doppelgangers

Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy Summary

Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy 89%

A wrong number draws a crime novelist into a fake detective case that erases his self.

by Paul Karasik 2025

4.08

466 ratings

🕵️ Postmodern Mystery 📖 Metafiction 👥 Doppelgangers

A Confederate General from Big Sur

by Richard Brautigan • 1964

A self-styled Confederate general drags a friend to Big Sur, chasing a ghost that never was.

3.99

4k+

🃏 Postmodern Picaresque 🚬 Bohemian Drifters 🎭 Self-Made Mythologies

A Confederate General from Big Sur Summary

A Confederate General from Big Sur 89%

A self-styled Confederate general drags a friend to Big Sur, chasing a ghost that never was.

by Richard Brautigan 1964

3.99

4k+ ratings

🃏 Postmodern Picaresque 🚬 Bohemian Drifters 🎭 Self-Made Mythologies

City of Glass

by Paul Auster • 1985

A mystery writer borrows a detective's name and shadows a mad linguist through New York.

3.75

24k+

🕵️ Philosophical Mystery 🎭 Dissolving Identity 🗺️ City As Labyrinth

City of Glass 88%

A mystery writer borrows a detective's name and shadows a mad linguist through New York.

by Paul Auster 1985

3.75

24k+ ratings

🕵️ Philosophical Mystery 🎭 Dissolving Identity 🗺️ City As Labyrinth

Chien 51

by Laurent Gaudé • 2022

A refugee cop in a corporate megacity hunts a killer through zones of privilege and ruin.

3.64

2k+

🖤 Dystopian Noir 💼 Corporate Dystopia 👥 Reluctant Partners

Chien 51 88%

A refugee cop in a corporate megacity hunts a killer through zones of privilege and ruin.

by Laurent Gaudé 2022

3.64

2k+ ratings

🖤 Dystopian Noir 💼 Corporate Dystopia 👥 Reluctant Partners

Senseless

by Ronald Malfi • 2025

A widowed detective chases a desert mutilator into the orbit of a crumbling Hollywood family.

3.83

3k+

🕵️ Serial Killer 🧠 Psychological Horror 📖 Cursed Object

Senseless 88%

A widowed detective chases a desert mutilator into the orbit of a crumbling Hollywood family.

by Ronald Malfi 2025

3.83

3k+ ratings

🕵️ Serial Killer 🧠 Psychological Horror 📖 Cursed Object

Altered Carbon

by Richard K. Morgan • 2002

An immortal hires a soldier, revived in a stranger's body, to solve his own locked-room murder.

4.03

116k+

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🔄 Body Swapping 🔒 Locked Room Mystery

Altered Carbon 88%

An immortal hires a soldier, revived in a stranger's body, to solve his own locked-room murder.

by Richard K. Morgan 2002

4.03

116k+ ratings

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🔄 Body Swapping 🔒 Locked Room Mystery

Epiphany Jones

by Michael Grothaus • 2016

A hallucinating museum worker framed for a Van Gogh theft follows a blackmailer who may not be real.

3.83

179

🖤 Psychological Noir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 📼 Blackmail Plot

Epiphany Jones 88%

A hallucinating museum worker framed for a Van Gogh theft follows a blackmailer who may not be real.

by Michael Grothaus 2016

3.83

179 ratings

🖤 Psychological Noir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 📼 Blackmail Plot

J R

by William Gaddis • 1975

From a payphone, a sixth-grader builds a paper empire that consumes a struggling composer.

4.32

4k+

📡 Postmodern Satire 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🤝 Reluctant Accomplice

J R 88%

From a payphone, a sixth-grader builds a paper empire that consumes a struggling composer.

by William Gaddis 1975

4.32

4k+ ratings

📡 Postmodern Satire 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🤝 Reluctant Accomplice

Le Manuscrit inachevé

by Franck Thilliez • 2018

When a thriller writer's daughter vanishes, clues are hidden inside her own unfinished novel.

4.18

11k+

🖤 French Noir 📖 Metafictional Thriller 👮 Police Procedural

Le Manuscrit inachevé 88%

When a thriller writer's daughter vanishes, clues are hidden inside her own unfinished novel.

by Franck Thilliez 2018

4.18

11k+ ratings

🖤 French Noir 📖 Metafictional Thriller 👮 Police Procedural

Pattern Recognition

by William Gibson • 2003

Allergic to logos, a consultant is hired to trace eerie film fragments, then the break-ins begin.

3.88

53k+

🖥️ Internet Mystery 🕵️ Corporate Espionage 🏙️ Post-9/11 Grief

Pattern Recognition 88%

Allergic to logos, a consultant is hired to trace eerie film fragments, then the break-ins begin.

by William Gibson 2003

3.88

53k+ ratings

🖥️ Internet Mystery 🕵️ Corporate Espionage 🏙️ Post-9/11 Grief

The Black Ice

by Michael Connelly • 1993

A cop's suicide note lures Harry Bosch into a border drug war and a deadly masquerade.

4.13

96k+

📋 Police Procedural 🕶️ Hardboiled Detective 💀 Fake Death

The Black Ice 88%

A cop's suicide note lures Harry Bosch into a border drug war and a deadly masquerade.

by Michael Connelly 1993

4.13

96k+ ratings

📋 Police Procedural 🕶️ Hardboiled Detective 💀 Fake Death

Something from the Nightside

by Simon R. Green • 2003

A PI chases a runaway into hidden London's endless night, where old enemies wait.

3.78

26k+

🕵️ Occult Detective 🏙️ Hidden Magical London 💡 Neon Noir

Something from the Nightside 88%

A PI chases a runaway into hidden London's endless night, where old enemies wait.

by Simon R. Green 2003

3.78

26k+ ratings

🕵️ Occult Detective 🏙️ Hidden Magical London 💡 Neon Noir

The Narrows

by Michael Connelly • 2004

A friend's murder pulls a retired cop into a cat-and-mouse game with an ex-FBI serial killer.

4.20

67k+

🔪 Serial Killer Thriller 👮 Police Procedural 🔍 Retired Detective

The Narrows 88%

A friend's murder pulls a retired cop into a cat-and-mouse game with an ex-FBI serial killer.

by Michael Connelly 2004

4.20

67k+ ratings

🔪 Serial Killer Thriller 👮 Police Procedural 🔍 Retired Detective

The Black Book

by Orhan Pamuk • 1990

When his wife disappears in Istanbul, a lawyer's only map is her half-brother's newspaper columns.

3.92

13k+

🕵️ Postmodern Mystery 🏙️ City As Character 🪞 Assumed Identity

The Black Book 88%

When his wife disappears in Istanbul, a lawyer's only map is her half-brother's newspaper columns.

by Orhan Pamuk 1990

3.92

13k+ ratings

🕵️ Postmodern Mystery 🏙️ City As Character 🪞 Assumed Identity

Aliss

by Patrick Senécal • 2000

She flees the suburbs and tumbles into a Montreal underworld ruled by a Red Queen.

4.33

11k+

🌀 Wonderland Retelling 🔪 Extreme Horror ⚡ Transgressive Fiction

Aliss 88%

She flees the suburbs and tumbles into a Montreal underworld ruled by a Red Queen.

by Patrick Senécal 2000

4.33

11k+ ratings

🌀 Wonderland Retelling 🔪 Extreme Horror ⚡ Transgressive Fiction

Underworld

by Don DeLillo • 1997

One man's search for his lost father unwinds backward through America's Cold War secrets.

3.95

34k+

🌀 Postmodern Fiction ☢️ Cold War Fiction 🔄 Nonlinear Narrative

Underworld 88%

One man's search for his lost father unwinds backward through America's Cold War secrets.

by Don DeLillo 1997

3.95

34k+ ratings

🌀 Postmodern Fiction ☢️ Cold War Fiction 🔄 Nonlinear Narrative

The Rabbit Factor

by Antti Tuomainen • 2020

An actuary inherits his brother's failing adventure park and the criminals who own its debts.

3.78

6k+

❄️ Nordic Noir 🎪 Absurdist Crime 🐠 Fish Out Of Water

The Rabbit Factor 88%

An actuary inherits his brother's failing adventure park and the criminals who own its debts.

by Antti Tuomainen 2020

3.78

6k+ ratings

❄️ Nordic Noir 🎪 Absurdist Crime 🐠 Fish Out Of Water

Dream Town

by David Baldacci • 2022

1953 Hollywood: a vanished client, a Malibu corpse, and a blackmail web leading straight to the mob.

4.09

39k+

🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🎬 Hollywood Noir 💋 Femme Fatale

Dream Town 88%

1953 Hollywood: a vanished client, a Malibu corpse, and a blackmail web leading straight to the mob.

by David Baldacci 2022

4.09

39k+ ratings

🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🎬 Hollywood Noir 💋 Femme Fatale

A Thousand Natural Shocks

by Omar Hussain • 2025

A journalist chases oblivion in a memory-erasing cult while a killer forces him to remember.

3.56

976

🧠 Psychological Thriller 💊 Memory Manipulation 🔍 Unreliable Narrator

A Thousand Natural Shocks 88%

A journalist chases oblivion in a memory-erasing cult while a killer forces him to remember.

by Omar Hussain 2025

3.56

976 ratings

🧠 Psychological Thriller 💊 Memory Manipulation 🔍 Unreliable Narrator

Wolf Hour

by Jo Nesbø • 2025

A haunted Minneapolis detective, numb from loss, chases a sniper hiding in plain sight.

4.01

8k+

🖋️ Literary Crime 👮 Police Procedural 💔 Broken Detective

Wolf Hour 88%

A haunted Minneapolis detective, numb from loss, chases a sniper hiding in plain sight.

by Jo Nesbø 2025

4.01

8k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Crime 👮 Police Procedural 💔 Broken Detective

A History of India, Vol. 1

by Romila Thapar • 1990

How a 1999 sci-fi film exposed the simulation we were already living in.

3.63

2k+

🎬 Film Criticism 📖 Cultural Theory 🏛️ Postmodernism

A History of India, Vol. 1 88%

How a 1999 sci-fi film exposed the simulation we were already living in.

by Romila Thapar 1990

3.63

2k+ ratings

🎬 Film Criticism 📖 Cultural Theory 🏛️ Postmodernism

The Broom of the System

by David Foster Wallace • 1987

When her great-grandmother vanishes, a phone operator discovers that words are all she is.

3.85

25k+

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction

The Broom of the System 88%

When her great-grandmother vanishes, a phone operator discovers that words are all she is.

by David Foster Wallace 1987

3.85

25k+ ratings

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction

Trunk Music

by Michael Connelly • 2006

A producer found in his Rolls-Royce trunk, staged as a mob execution. Bosch follows the money.

4.22

79k+

🚔 Police Procedural 🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 💋 Femme Fatale

Trunk Music 88%

A producer found in his Rolls-Royce trunk, staged as a mob execution. Bosch follows the money.

by Michael Connelly 2006

4.22

79k+ ratings

🚔 Police Procedural 🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 💋 Femme Fatale

The Sins of the Fathers

by Lawrence Block • 1976

A disgraced ex-cop turned PI investigates a murdered call girl after the accused hangs himself.

3.87

12k+

🕵️ Hard Boiled Detective 💔 Parent Hires PI 🚬 Fallen Woman Victim

The Sins of the Fathers 88%

A disgraced ex-cop turned PI investigates a murdered call girl after the accused hangs himself.

by Lawrence Block 1976

3.87

12k+ ratings

🕵️ Hard Boiled Detective 💔 Parent Hires PI 🚬 Fallen Woman Victim

The Last Policeman

by Ben H. Winters • 2012

Earth has six months left. A detective investigates a suicide that looks like murder.

3.77

36k+

🕵️ Pre-Apocalypse Mystery 🔍 Obsessive Detective 🖤 Melancholy Noir

The Last Policeman 88%

Earth has six months left. A detective investigates a suicide that looks like murder.

by Ben H. Winters 2012

3.77

36k+ ratings

🕵️ Pre-Apocalypse Mystery 🔍 Obsessive Detective 🖤 Melancholy Noir

Cyberpunk 2077

by Rafał Kosik • 2023

In a city of corporate lies, a crew of outcasts steals a secret worth killing for.

3.51

5k+

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 💻 High-Tech Heist 🫂 Found Family Crew

Cyberpunk 2077 88%

In a city of corporate lies, a crew of outcasts steals a secret worth killing for.

by Rafał Kosik 2023

3.51

5k+ ratings

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 💻 High-Tech Heist 🫂 Found Family Crew

Silent Crime

by W.L. Knightly • 2019

A retiring detective faces a killer who forces corrupt officials to play hangman with their crimes.

3.96

2k+

📋 Police Procedural 🔪 Serial Killer Thriller ⚖️ Vigilante Justice

Silent Crime 88%

A retiring detective faces a killer who forces corrupt officials to play hangman with their crimes.

by W.L. Knightly 2019

3.96

2k+ ratings

📋 Police Procedural 🔪 Serial Killer Thriller ⚖️ Vigilante Justice

Prayers for Rain

by Dennis Lehane • 1999

A PI scares off a stalker. She dies anyway. Someone engineered every step of her destruction.

4.09

24k+

🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🖤 Psychological Noir 🎭 Master Manipulator

Prayers for Rain 88%

A PI scares off a stalker. She dies anyway. Someone engineered every step of her destruction.

by Dennis Lehane 1999

4.09

24k+ ratings

🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🖤 Psychological Noir 🎭 Master Manipulator

The Erasers

by Alain Robbe-Grillet • 1953

A detective hunts a killer through a maze of canals, unaware the victim faked his death.

3.77

2k+

🏛️ Nouveau Roman 🪦 Faked Death 🎭 Mistaken Identity

The Erasers 88%

A detective hunts a killer through a maze of canals, unaware the victim faked his death.

by Alain Robbe-Grillet 1953

3.77

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Nouveau Roman 🪦 Faked Death 🎭 Mistaken Identity

The Second Life of Nick Mason

by Steve Hamilton • 2016

Nick Mason's release came with a phone. It orders murder. His family guarantees his obedience.

3.75

7k+

🕵️ Hardboiled Noir 👮 Corrupt Police 🏙️ Chicago Setting

The Second Life of Nick Mason 88%

Nick Mason's release came with a phone. It orders murder. His family guarantees his obedience.

by Steve Hamilton 2016

3.75

7k+ ratings

🕵️ Hardboiled Noir 👮 Corrupt Police 🏙️ Chicago Setting

The Kings of Cool

by Don Winslow • 2012

A surf-town marijuana empire faces a shakedown from the violent men who run the drug trade.

4.00

9k+

🏄 Surf Noir 💊 Drug War Saga 🖤 Found Family

The Kings of Cool 88%

A surf-town marijuana empire faces a shakedown from the violent men who run the drug trade.

by Don Winslow 2012

4.00

9k+ ratings

🏄 Surf Noir 💊 Drug War Saga 🖤 Found Family

The Concrete Blonde

by Michael Connelly • 1994

Harry Bosch shot a serial killer. The trial claims he was wrong; a concrete-encased body agrees.

4.24

81k+

🚔 Police Procedural ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🔪 Serial Killer

The Concrete Blonde 88%

Harry Bosch shot a serial killer. The trial claims he was wrong; a concrete-encased body agrees.

by Michael Connelly 1994

4.24

81k+ ratings

🚔 Police Procedural ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🔪 Serial Killer

Hidden Bodies

by Caroline Kepnes • 2016

Robbed by a lover, a bookseller follows her to Hollywood, where someone even more consuming awaits.

3.75

94k+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🔪 Serial Killer Pov 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

Hidden Bodies 88%

Robbed by a lover, a bookseller follows her to Hollywood, where someone even more consuming awaits.

by Caroline Kepnes 2016

3.75

94k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🔪 Serial Killer Pov 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk • 1996

An insomniac and a soap salesman start an underground fight club that spirals into anarchy.

4.18

649k+

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🪞 Dissociative Identity

Fight Club 88%

An insomniac and a soap salesman start an underground fight club that spirals into anarchy.

by Chuck Palahniuk 1996

4.18

649k+ ratings

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🪞 Dissociative Identity

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

by David Wong • 2015

A barista inherits a crime empire and becomes the star of a live murder show.

3.98

24k+

🤖 Cyberpunk Satire 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 👑 Reluctant Heir

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits Summary

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits 88%

A barista inherits a crime empire and becomes the star of a live murder show.

by David Wong 2015

3.98

24k+ ratings

🤖 Cyberpunk Satire 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 👑 Reluctant Heir

[No Country for Old Men] (By

by Cormac McCarthy • 2005

A hunter pockets cartel cash from the dead. The man sent to recover it never negotiates.

4.17

253k+

🏜️ Neo-Western 📚 Literary Thriller 🐈 Cat And Mouse Pursuit

[No Country for Old Men] (By 88%

A hunter pockets cartel cash from the dead. The man sent to recover it never negotiates.

by Cormac McCarthy 2005

4.17

253k+ ratings

🏜️ Neo-Western 📚 Literary Thriller 🐈 Cat And Mouse Pursuit

The Last Coyote

by Michael Connelly • 1995

Suspended, a detective reopens his mother's cold case and stirs a cover-up someone still kills for.

4.26

86k+

🚔 Police Procedural 📁 Cold Case 🐺 Lone Wolf Detective

The Last Coyote 88%

Suspended, a detective reopens his mother's cold case and stirs a cover-up someone still kills for.

by Michael Connelly 1995

4.26

86k+ ratings

🚔 Police Procedural 📁 Cold Case 🐺 Lone Wolf Detective

The Paradox Hotel

by Rob Hart • 2022

A time-slipping security chief finds a vanished corpse as time itself fractures inside the hotel.

3.53

11k+

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 💔 Ghost Of Lost Love 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

The Paradox Hotel 88%

A time-slipping security chief finds a vanished corpse as time itself fractures inside the hotel.

by Rob Hart 2022

3.53

11k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 💔 Ghost Of Lost Love 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

The Overlook

by Michael Connelly • 2007

A murdered doctor and stolen cesium trigger a terror alert, but Bosch suspects a domestic motive.

4.02

57k+

👮 Police Procedural 🖤 Femme Fatale 🎭 Faked Victimhood

The Overlook 88%

A murdered doctor and stolen cesium trigger a terror alert, but Bosch suspects a domestic motive.

by Michael Connelly 2007

4.02

57k+ ratings

👮 Police Procedural 🖤 Femme Fatale 🎭 Faked Victimhood

Lucky Day

by Chuck Tingle • 2025

On the day probability collapsed, fish rained from the sky. The cosmic wound never healed.

3.80

13k+

🕳️ Cosmic Horror 🐒 Absurdist Horror 🖤 Queer Horror

Lucky Day 88%

On the day probability collapsed, fish rained from the sky. The cosmic wound never healed.

by Chuck Tingle 2025

3.80

13k+ ratings

🕳️ Cosmic Horror 🐒 Absurdist Horror 🖤 Queer Horror

Night Passage

by Robert B. Parker • 1997

An alcoholic ex-detective takes a chief's badge in a seaside town owned by a corrupt banker.

4.12

16k+

🥃 Alcoholic Detective 🏚️ Small Town Noir 💔 Divorced Detective

Night Passage 88%

An alcoholic ex-detective takes a chief's badge in a seaside town owned by a corrupt banker.

by Robert B. Parker 1997

4.12

16k+ ratings

🥃 Alcoholic Detective 🏚️ Small Town Noir 💔 Divorced Detective

The Gone World

by Tom Sweterlitsch • 2018

A murdered family. A missing child. An agent who visits futures where humanity is always dead.

3.91

30k+

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🕵️‍♀️ Sci-Fi Noir 🔁 Time Loop

The Gone World 88%

A murdered family. A missing child. An agent who visits futures where humanity is always dead.

by Tom Sweterlitsch 2018

3.91

30k+ ratings

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🕵️‍♀️ Sci-Fi Noir 🔁 Time Loop

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