The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
2005
Books with the “Noir” trope
A dark crime story with a cynical hero, a dangerous woman, and a sense of doom.
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Genre tropes · Noir
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Storm Front
Jim Butcher
2000
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
2011
Neuromancer
William Gibson
1984
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan
2002
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
1939
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
1929
The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain
1934
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
1955
The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
1952
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
1946
Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith
1950
Double Indemnity
James M. Cain
1936
Certain Dark Things
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2016
Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton
1993
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
1968
The Dry
Jane Harper
2016
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
1938
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