Looking for the best noir novels set in LA? Welcome to the dark and gritty world of LA Noir, where the city of angels reveals its shadowy underbelly in all its sinister glory. Noir books are all about atmosphere —the sights, the sounds, the smells of a city pulsating with danger and desire. In noir books, the streets are slick with rain, the neon lights […]
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What are the best crime thriller books of all time? To answer that question and compile our list of recommendations, we must start at the beginning. The father of the modern crime thriller, Edgar Allan Poe, authored the short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” in 1841. In the story, Poe introduced many elements that would become hallmarks of crime fiction, like the brilliant
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The Bottom Line: Elloy’s most challenging work yet, This Storm is strictly for fans of LA Noir and James Ellroy completionists. With This Storm, the author of classics like LA Confidential and Black Dahlia has entered yet another novel in the canon of crime thrillers set in the city of angels. As torrential rain hits LA in 1942, a body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops
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The Bottom Line: A hard-boiled crime caper that grabs from the get-go and burns at a feverish pace until the very last page. [easyazon_cta add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”B00EJ7108G” cloaking=”default” height=”42″ key=”tall-orange” localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”120″] [hr] The very best crime novelists make even the scenes set in broad daylight seem like it’s ten minutes ‘til midnight. In Dead Money Run, J. Frank James makes
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