NOIR QUARTET: Sinners & Saints presents four tales of mystery and crime from the grim and shadowy netherworld of 'Noir'. Join the lovers and cheaters, the crooks and killers, the innocent and guilty while they prowl dark alleys and dance halls, nightclubs and nightmares searching for their own slice of heaven, but only holding hands on their way to hell.
Yes, there are sinners and there are saints. But, which one are you?
Whodunits? Not so much. The Noir Quartet series of short story collections by C.J. Thomas are compact reads offering four dark tales of murder, mystery and more, set in the 'then' and the 'now', celebrating classic Noir tropes and then reimagining them in fresh settings.
C.J. Thomas is a designer by profession and writer by vocation, a lifelong mystery, crime fiction and film noir fan with a special fondness for classic mid-twentieth century Hollywood crime films, that era's hard-boiled detective novels and crime pulps as well as the commercial illustrators whose work did so much to visualize those genres in paperback and magazine cover art, interior illustrations, movie posters and more. Look for Chicagoland resident Thomas' Stiletto Gumshoe novels and the Noir Quartet series of compact story collections.