OUR STORY

Born in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles has always belonged to crime fiction.

Sunshine and shadows. Movie stars and murderers. Mansions and motels. Palm trees and dark streets. Reinvention and regret.

Few places contain so many contradictions—or have inspired so many unforgettable crime stories.

Los Angeles helped shape the American hard-boiled tradition, and its streets have become part of the mythology of crime fiction. From Hollywood and Downtown to the canyons and beaches, from Sunset Boulevard and Mulholland Drive to neighborhoods rarely seen on movie screens, LA has provided generations of writers with an extraordinary landscape for stories about ambition, desperation, crime, justice, and the elusive possibility of redemption.

Dark Hours Books grew from a lifelong love of that tradition and from a belief that place matters.

A great setting doesn't simply provide a backdrop. It shapes the people who live there, the choices they make, the crimes they commit, and the stories we tell about them.

Los Angeles is where Dark Hours began, and LA crime fiction remains at the heart of our identity.

But our interests extend wherever great crime stories take us.

Because every city has its shadows.

Every place has its secrets.

And some stories are best told in the dark.