Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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Drug of Choice

Michael Crichton

On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of Eden Island and of Advance Biosystem...

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Published: Nov 2013

The Turnaround

George Pelecanos

On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to sa...

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Published: Apr 2009

Another Life: A Burke Novel (Burke) (...

Andrew H. Vachss

In this cutting and dark thriller series, Burke returns to save the life of his "father," while searching for the abducted child of an oil sheik.The Detroit Free Press has said "There's no way to put a [Vachss book] dow...

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Published: Dec 2008

The Little Sister

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler's gritty detective, performed by Elliott Gould who played the role himself, comes upon another Los Angeles mystery in this newly done audiobook version of The Little Sister. The consummate gumshoe is on the case agai...

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Published: Mar 2007

Winter House: A Mallory Novel (Kathle...

Carol O'Connell

Carol O'Connell's last novel, Dead Famous, made multiple best-of-year lists and won critical acclaim nationwide. 'O'Connell brings a hard edge of greatness to the crime thriller,' wrote the San Jose Mercury News. 'A tough and brillian...

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Published: Jun 2009

Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories

Raymond Chandler

Mandarin's Jade, The Man Who Liked Dogs, and Try the Girl are three of Raymond Chandler's early mystery stories that set the groundwork for the creation of the Philip Marlowe character. His fast-paced style has become the hallmark of ...

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Published: Jan 2007

The High Window

Raymond Chandler

Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio dramatization of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, world–weary, wise–cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean st...

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Published: Feb 2007

Salvation Lake

G. M. Ford

At the end of an especially raucous day at his neighborhood bar, private eye Leo Waterman is surprised to see his old flame, Rebecca Duval, walk in the door. But King County's chief coroner is here on business, not pleasure. Two dead ...

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Published: Jul 2016

The Haunted Air (Repairman Jack Serie...

F. Paul Wilson

"Call a plumber when the sink is clogged, the cops when you've been robbed, but when the you-know-what hits the fan, it's time to call Repairman Jack....[The Haunted Air] shakes, rattles and rolls." - New York Daily News Rep...

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Published: Apr 2013

Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

Sara Paretsky

The ninth book in Sara Paretsky's popular V.I. Warshawski series has the tough, street-savvy private investigator doing time in a women's maximum security prison for the alleged kidnapping of a security magnate's neglected son. She ma...

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Published: Jan 2007

The Goliath Bone

Mickey Spillane

World-famous P.I. Mike Hammer is back, this time fighting deadly Islamic extremists whose sinister agenda involves stealing a recently discovered archeological relic: a bone of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath.

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Published: Oct 2008

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe

Rex Stout

Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe is one of the most popular characters in detective fiction, and his adventures have appeared in novels, movies, TV series, and on radio. Nero and his partner Archie Goodwin embody two popular schools of 20th cen...

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Published: Sep 2004

Blue Belle (Burke)

Andrew Vachss

Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of c...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Way Home

George Pelecanos

Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside...

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Published: May 2009

Dead Girl Blues

Lawrence Block

You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block's new novel is not for everyone. It's recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with ...

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Published: Jun 2020

Ten Two Jack (The Hunt for Jack Reach...

Diane Capri

Reacher's long gone. His enemies aren't."Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child, #1 World-Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher ThrillersFBI Special Agent Kim Otto's search for Reacher takes a deadly turn when...

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Published: Sep 2018

Majic Man (Nathan Heller Series)

Max Allan Collins

It’s 1949 in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, convinced he has been targeted for murder, hires Chicago P.I. Nate Heller for protection. Heller must deal with Beltway infighting, Communist paranoia, Israeli...

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Published: Sep 2015

Brown's Requiem

James Ellroy

In this enthralling debut, James Ellroy, one of crime fiction\'s greatest writers, introduces the hyperreal L.A. we\'ve come to know from his later work—a land of vice, corruption, and, in this case, golf.\r\n\r\nFritz Brown is a...

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Published: Feb 2021

Rebound

Michael Goodell

As a Private Detective, James "Don't Call Me Corky" Corcoran has a lot in common with his adoptive hometown of Detroit. The past is brighter than the present; he's going nowhere fast, and he's running out of money. But thing...

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Published: Dec 2013

Danny Boy

Henry Hack

When homicide detective Daniel Boyland investigates his first big murder case, the poisoning death of school teacher Laura Samuels, he falls in love with the chief murder suspect, Niki Wells, with disastrous results. By cleverly manip...

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Published: May 2009

Last to Die: A gripping psychological...

Arlene Hunt

He watches. He waits. He kills...When Jessie Conway survives a horrific mass high school shooting, in the aftermath she finds herself thrust into the media spotlight, drawing all kinds of attention. But some of it is the wrong kind....

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Published: Jun 2016

Later

Stephen King

A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING! SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Bor...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Green Ripper: A Travis McGee Nove...

John D. MacDonald

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Green Ripper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Travis McGee has known his share of beautiful girls, but true love al...

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Published: Oct 2013

Breakout: A Parker Novel

Richard Stark

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a co...

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Published: Aug 2017

Gone 'til November

Wallace Stroby

When Florida sheriff's deputy Sara Cross arrives on the scene of a roadside shooting, she finds another deputy, Billy Flynn, has killed a twenty-two-year-old man. Clearly shaken up, Billy—Sara's former partner and lover—claims the...

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Published: Jan 2011

SignWave: An Aftershock Novel

Andrew Vachss

Once a mercenary, later an assassin, and now living a different life, Dell has bone-marrow-deep loyalty and protective instincts that know no bounds when it comes to his wife, Dolly, a former battle-field nurse, and their close-knit g...

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Published: Jun 2016

Blood Is the Sky: An Alex McKnight No...

Steve Hamilton

Before Blood Is the Sky, the Alex McKnight series had already hit bestseller lists and won awards, but this novel took it to a whole new level. Set in the forests of northern Ontario, a land of savage beauty and sudden danger, Blood I...

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Published: Nov 2013

Ammunition (Inspector Brant)

Ken Bruen

Over the many years that Inspector Brant has been bringing his own patented brand of policing to the streets of southeast London, the brilliant but tough cop has made a few enemies. So when a crazed gunman, hired by persons unknown, p...

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Published: Jul 2007

Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

G. M. Ford

When an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, without the sense God gave a gopher...

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Published: Jul 2012

Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKn...

Steve Hamilton

Steve Hamilton's novels starring ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight have won multiple awards and appeared on bestseller lists nationwide. And when you start reading Winter of the Wolf Moon, you will instantly understand why. . .Wh...

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Published: Feb 2001
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