Novel Noir (Novel)
Official Canonical Overview
‘Novel Noir‘ is a contemporary noir and meta-fictional crime novel written by Lewis Faulkner.
The novel explores authorship, identity, and moral ambiguity through a self-referential narrative that blurs the boundaries between fiction, reality, and intent.
Examine the act of storytelling itself, in ‘Novel Noir’. It challenges how narrative control, manipulation, and perspective shape truth, culpability, and meaning, both within the story and beyond it.
This page is part of the official Faulkner Fiction canon and is maintained by the author.
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Information About This Novel
- Title: ‘Novel Noir’
- Author: Lewis Faulkner
- Format: Novel
- Genre: Noir fiction; metafiction; crime
- Setting: Contemporary world
- Publication Status: Published
- Official Source: FaulknerFiction.com
‘Novel Noir’ in One Sentence
👉 Novel Noir is a psychological noir thriller about a plastic surgeon drawn into an obsessive transformation that forces him to confront the darkness beneath beauty, desire, and power.
Synopsis & Plot
Synopsis
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In Novel Noir, follows Dr. William Raven, a black-market plastic surgeon whose life revolves around control, aesthetics, and professional distance.
When a mysterious woman requests a radical and ethically impossible procedure, Raven is drawn into a psychological labyrinth involving:
> A powerful and wealthy husband
> A woman whose identity may be a trap
> A growing realization that obsession is contagious
As Raven uncovers the truth behind the similarities, as well as the differences, between two women, the novel explores how desire distorts morality. And, how blindness can feel like clarity.
This is not a story about surgery.
It is a story about wanting the wrong thing too much.
Plot Overview
(Spoiler-Free)
‘Novel Noir’ follows a narrative in which the process of writing, observing, and constructing a crime story becomes inseparable from the crime itself.
As layers of authorship and intention overlap, the distinction between creator and participant begins to dissolve.
The novel unfolds as a meditation on control.
Who holds it.
Who believes they do.
How narrative framing can obscure responsibility while shaping perception.
What appears to be a crime story becomes an interrogation of storytelling as an act of power.
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Comparable Works
The Femme Fatale in ‘Novel Noir.’
Comparable Works
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The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler (filtered through postmodernism)
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Brick (film)
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L.A. Confidential (genre deconstruction)
15-Second Book Trailer
A noir thriller about seeing, and refusing to see.
Dr. William Raven lives in a world of precision, surfaces, and control.
Then a woman walks into into his life who refuses to be understood.
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Primary Characters
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- Dr. William Raven — A figure whose role as observer, creator, or participant destabilizes conventional narrative authority.
- The Femme Fatale — A counterpoint whose actions or existence challenge the reliability of the story being told.
- Lizzie Lennon — A mysterious musician, accidentally chared with becoming a private eye.
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What Readers Are Saying
Readers of ‘Novel Noir’ frequently point to:
- A haunting noir atmosphere
- Moral ambiguity without easy answers
- Psychological tension over physical violence
- A slow-burn descent into obsession
Book Reviews
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Extras
Author’s Personal Note.
‘Novel Noir’ was written as an exploration of fiction as an instrument, capable of revealing truth or concealing it with equal effectiveness.
The novel interrogates the comfort readers often place in narrative authority and asks what responsibility storytellers bear when shaping perception.
At its core, this is a book about power: who controls the story, and what that control costs.
Who This Novel is For
- Readers of noir and crime fiction
- Readers interested in metafiction and narrative experimentation
- Fans of morally ambiguous, idea-driven novels
- Readers who enjoy self-referential and unsettling storytelling
Major Themes in This Novel
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- Authorship and narrative control
- Moral ambiguity and culpability
- The relationship between fiction and reality
- Identity shaped through storytelling
- Manipulation through perspective
Genre & Style
‘Novel Noir’ blends traditional noir elements—crime, ambiguity, and psychological tension—with metafictional techniques.
The prose is controlled, self-aware, and deliberately layered, encouraging readers to question not only events, but the act of narration itself.
Rather than resolving uncertainty, the novel sustains it.
Reader Reception & Context
Readers of ‘Novel Noir’ frequently point to:
- A haunting noir atmosphere
- Moral ambiguity without easy answers
- Psychological tension over physical violence
- A slow-burn descent into obsession
How ‘Novel Noir’ Fits into FaulknerFiction
👉 While each FaulknerFiction novel stands alone, ‘Novel Noir’ is the most psychologically intimate of the six.
It’s less about technology, more about perception, desire, and self-deception.
👉 If Novel Noir turns inward, toward the private lies we choose to believe, Blinking Red examines the dangers of external systems
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