Crime Noir

Everyone is compromised, including the narrator. Fatalism, moral murk and rain-slick cities — the strand of crime writing where the detective is part of the problem.

On the Crime & Suspense shelf.

Books shelved as Crime Noir

• Bud, Not Buddy — Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Intrigue — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) — Ken Follett
• Bad Feminist — Roxane Gay
• The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner
• Swan Peak — James Lee Burke
• A Stained White Radiance — James Lee Burke
• Last Car to Elysian Fields — James Lee Burke
• Sin City Volume 3: The Big Fat Kill — Frank Miller
• Batman: Streets of Gotham - Hush Money — Paul Dini / Dustin Nguyen / J.G. Jones
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• The Tin Roof Blowdown — James Lee Burke / Will Patton
• The New Iberia Blues — James Lee Burke
• A Morning for Flamingos — James Lee Burke
• Heaven's Prisoners — James Lee Burke
• Sycamore Row — John Grisham
• Light Of The World — James Lee Burke
• The Help — Kathryn Stockett
• Pegasus Descending — James Lee Burke
• Daredevil: The Man Without Fear — Frank Miller / John Romita Sr.
• Burning Angel — James Lee Burke
• Sunset Limited — James Lee Burke / Freddy Michalski
• The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson
• Jazz — Toni Morrison

Related genres

• Mystery
• Thriller
• Suspense
• Crime Fiction
• Espionage
• Legal Thriller
• Political Thriller
• Techno-Thriller
• Cozy Mystery
• Heist

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