Jonathan Stone Books in Order

NYPD trainee Julian Palmer heads to a frozen upstate town to assist famed chief Winston Bear Edwards on the murder of a young waitress. Snow, secrets, and a possibly too-helpful psychic turn her first big case into a maze.

Now a young lieutenant in Troy, Julian Palmer is under pressure to solve the murder of a respected family man. Then her disgraced former mentor Bear Edwards reappears, offering help she may be crazy to trust.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in San Francisco, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Taking what should be a routine insurance case, Julian Palmer stumbles into a white-collar mystery involving a dead banker, a mysterious canister, and an inventor in the New Mexico desert. The trail runs all the way to Wall Street.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in the Bronx, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Seattle, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Brooklyn, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology sets its stories inside and around Hasidic communities, where faith, family, secrecy, and power shape the crimes and the pressure.

This follow-up anthology returns to Brooklyn with more standalone noir stories, each using the borough's own history, class lines, and pressure points differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Dublin, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Baltimore, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Washington, D.C., using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in London, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Manhattan, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

As a serial sniper terrorizes Webster County, TV reporter Sam Stevens sees the chaos as a chance to fix his collapsing home life in the worst possible way. Sheriff Billy Wyatt is left trying to stop both a killer and a media circus.

This anthology gathers dark stories set across the Twin Cities, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Detroit, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Havana, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Los Angeles, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology uses the money world of Wall Street as its common ground, with stories about greed, pressure, and the crimes that thrive where reputation matters most.

This third Brooklyn anthology returns to the borough with more standalone noir stories, this time grouped around truth, lies, and the cost of getting either one wrong.

This follow-up anthology returns to Washington, D.C. with more standalone noir stories shaped by the city's power, ambition, and local fault lines.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Istanbul, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Las Vegas, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This follow-up anthology returns to Manhattan with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's scale, wealth, and hidden corners differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Queens, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Toronto, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Bob, a solitary Boston bartender, finds a battered pit bull puppy in a trash can and reluctantly takes it in with help from wary neighbor Nadia. When the dog's violent former owner comes looking, Bob is pushed into a dangerous clash with local toughs and the bar's criminal backers.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Delhi, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Phoenix, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Portland, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Rome, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This follow-up anthology returns to San Francisco with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's beauty, divisions, and shadows differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Copenhagen, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Haiti, using local tension, hard choices, and a strong sense of place to drive the crimes.

This anthology gathers dark stories from Indigenous settings across the Americas, where troubled history and present-day danger meet in sharp, place-driven crime fiction.

This anthology ranges across Texas with standalone noir stories shaped by local pride, bad luck, violence, and the state's many different kinds of hard country.

This follow-up anthology returns to Los Angeles with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's glamour, sprawl, and rot differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Mexico City, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Moscow, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Orange County, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Philadelphia, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Richmond, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Barcelona, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set around Cape Cod, showing the crime, class strain, and private damage hiding behind the vacation image.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in New Jersey, using local tension, bad choices, and a strong sense of place to drive the trouble.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Pittsburgh, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in San Diego, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This follow-up anthology returns to Boston with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's history, class lines, and criminal energy differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Kansas City, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Kingston, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology maps Long Island's darker corners, far beyond postcard beaches and wealth, through standalone stories of class division, resentment, and crime.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Mumbai, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in St. Petersburg, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

A noir story set in Staten Island, focusing on a woman grappling with her son's troubling behavior while she becomes obsessed with a tragedy involving a neighbor. It explores themes of entrapment and the dark undercurrents of family life.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Venice, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Buffalo, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Dallas, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Postal Police partners Marcie and Schottsie expect a dead-end assignment when a case leads them to the dead letter office. Instead they stumble into drug smuggling, cartel violence, and a test of whether they can be real cops under pressure.

This follow-up anthology returns to Haiti with more standalone noir stories, each using the country's pressures, history, and danger in different ways.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Manila, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology ranges across the United States, gathering noir stories from very different regions and communities. The shared thread is pressure, crime, and moral damage, not one continuing cast.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Belfast, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Helsinki, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Stanley Peke and his wife lose everything to a slick moving scam just before leaving New England. To get it back, Peke must chase the thieves across the country while old memories of wartime survival rise with him.

This anthology brings the noir approach behind bars, with stories shaped by confinement, prison hierarchies, and the daily work of survival.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Rio, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Singapore, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Tehran, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Tel Aviv, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Beirut, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to Chicago, offering a sampler of the city's darker literary traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Marseille, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Memphis, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Providence, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Bank teller Elaine Kelly impulsively transfers a dead customer's savings into her own account after he is killed outside her branch. Then she learns his death was no accident, and the money comes with deadly company.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Zagreb, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Brussels, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Set around the University of Mississippi, this dark short story follows a young woman caught in the ugly social rituals of campus Greek life. Abbott turns a brief romance into a dreamlike tale of class, sex, and menace.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to New Orleans, offering a sampler of the city's darker literary traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Prague, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in San Juan, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in St. Louis, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Stockholm, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Chas is a private investigator with a very odd client, a Las Vegas mentalist whose act depends on stolen personal details. When someone starts blackmailing the showman, Chas is pulled into kidnapping, fake identities, and a much bigger con.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Atlanta, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Buenos Aires, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Retired detective Joe Heller is called to McMurdo Station to investigate what may be Antarctica's first murder. When communication with the outside world fails and another body drops, the case starts to look like the end of the world.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Montana, using local tension, hard country, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Montreal, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in New Haven, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Oakland, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to Trinidad, offering a sampler of the setting's darker crime traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Baghdad, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Berlin, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Hong Kong, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Lagos, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Marrakech, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Santa Cruz, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in São Paulo, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Sydney, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Vancouver, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Amsterdam, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Houston, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Milwaukee, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Accra, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Addis Ababa, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology ranges across Alabama with standalone noir stories shaped by place, pressure, and the state's different local histories.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Belgrade, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Berkeley, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Columbus, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Zack Yellin accidentally swaps cell phones with a professional hit man in a crowded coffee shop. One phone holds damning evidence, the other holds Zack's whole life, and suddenly the killer knows exactly who to come after.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to Miami, offering a sampler of the city's darker literary traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Nairobi, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Santa Fe, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set around Tampa Bay, using local tension, bad choices, and a strong sense of place to drive the trouble.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Palm Springs, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Denver, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology shifts the noir lens from central Paris to the suburbs, where class tension, migration, and everyday pressure shape the crimes.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in South Central Los Angeles, using local pressure, bad choices, and hard-earned neighborhood knowledge to drive the trouble.

In Otisville, a group of Jewish white-collar inmates meet for prayer and argument under the guidance of a rabbi who is also a convict. Then a celebrity prisoner arrives, and outside political revenge turns prison life into something much more dangerous.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Cleveland, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in East Jerusalem, using local tension, politics, and personal risk to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in West Jerusalem, using local tension, politics, and personal risk to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Honolulu, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Hamburg, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Sacramento, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.