The most popular French noir books of 2023

Noir is crime fiction at its darkest. Its heroes are tired detectives, small-time crooks and ordinary people who make one bad choice, and the world around them is corrupt from top to bottom. Hard-boiled classics sit here beside modern noir. Expect sharp dialogue, moral gray and few happy endings. This list shows the ones first published in 2023. Only books in French are listed.

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So Close
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So Close

Sylvia Day

Published 2023

448 pages

Night Fever
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Night Fever

Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips

Published 2023

112 pages

Rosa & Björk
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Rosa & Björk

Satu Rämö

2023 · 2025 edition

432 pages

Shit !
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Shit !

Jacky Schwartzmann

2023 · 2024 edition

327 pages

Zonder boete
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Zonder boete

Dana Smit

Published 2023

311 pages

Free queens
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Free queens

Marin Ledun

Published 2023

403 pages

Les gentils
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Les gentils

Michaël Mention

Published 2023

347 pages

La Perruque
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La Perruque

Alex Sol

Published 2023

92 pages

Aruba
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Aruba

Eric Jacobs

Published 2023

382 pages

DOUBLE JE.
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DOUBLE JE.

LAETITIA ARGOUD

Published 2023

225 pages

Toxic Berlin
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Toxic Berlin

Calla Henkel

2023 · 2025 edition

448 pages

Sweet America
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Sweet America

Megane Harris

Published 2023

240 pages