"Noir" means "dark" or "black" in French; in fiction and filmmaking terms, it's come to mean stories focusing on crime and the dark underbelly of life. In a TL Hines novel, you can always expect to find elements of crime, mystery and suspense.

"Bizarre" means, well, bizarre. Out of the ordinary. Stories that run slightly off the tracks. Characters who aren't quite what they seem, worlds that aren't quite real. Sometimes that means supernaturally-inspired stories; other times it means characters who aren't 100% sane. It's all good.

Put those words together--Noir Bizarre--and you have the world where all my stories take place. Crime meets crazy. Mystery meets macabre. Suspense meets supernatural. You get the idea.