New & Novel: Noir

In honor of the Guild Cinema's Twelfth Annual Festival of Film Noir, we offer you some noir fiction and non-fiction, beyond the classic works of James Cain, Cornell Woolrich, Patricia Highsmith, and Jim Thompson.  Immerse yourself in noir from July 17-26!

Fiction

The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander Novel by David Lagercrantz

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

 

French Concession by Xiao Bai 

 

The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley by Jeremy Massey

 

Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh [eBook]

 

Tel Aviv Noir edited by Etgar Keret & Assaf Gavron  [eBook]

 

Life Deluxe by Jens Lapidus

 

Hotel Brasil: The Mystery of the Severed Heads by Frei Betto

 

Beware, Beware: A Juniper Song Mystery by Steph Cha

 

Deep Winter by Samuel W. Gailey

 

Chance by Kem Nunn

 

Fifty Mice by Daniel Pyne

 

Prison Noir edited by Joyce Carol Oates 

 

Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Stories by African-American Writers edited by Otto Penzler

 

David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s edited by Robert Polito

 

 

Non-Fiction

 

Nordic Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw   

 

Los Angeles Plays Itself [DVD]

A Companion to Film Noir edited by Andrew Spicer and Helen Hanson [eBook]

 

Siren City: Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir by Robert Miklitsch [eBook]

 

Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood by Woody Haut 

 

 

Akashic Books has a whole series of noir short story collections set in a variety of locales, many of which are in the library catalog.

 

To find noir movies, try a search of "noir videorecording" or "film noir". You can also find books about the genre with a search using "film noir".