Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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The Getaway Man

Andrew Vachss

Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license, driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys. After a series of false starts, interrupted by stays in juvenile institutions and a state ...

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Published: Feb 2003

Shella

Andrew H. Vachss

From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted ...

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Published: Aug 1994

Coward's Kiss

Lawrence Block

Some cases just won't die—even after you've dumped the body  Ed London is the type of private investigator that you call to clean up the mess when your mistress turns up dead. But after he dumps a body in Central Park, it appears ...

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Published: Nov 2011

Quite Ugly One Morning

Christopher Brookmyre

Hard-living, Scottish investigative journalist Jack Parlabane stumbles upon the body of the scion of a wealthy Edinburgh medical family and embarks on a wild and dangerous probe to get to the bottom of the murder, in an entertaining a...

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Published: Jan 2002

Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel...

Robert Crais

IIt's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide,in his lap a photo albu...

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Published: Feb 2009

A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee ...

John D. MacDonald

"John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." — Stephen King When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can't help it: He has to meddle. Especially w...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2013

Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of...

Otto Penzler

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and Joh...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Hunter: A Parker Novel

Richard Stark

Doublecrossed, shot, and left for dead - by his wife..The thriller that introduces Parker. 'A brilliant invention'. Played by Lee Marvin in the John Boorman movie. 'The funnies call it the syndicate. The goons and hustlers call it the...

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Published: Sep 2008

Only Child (Burke Series)

Andrew Vachss

It's been years since Burke has been home, years since he's seen his "family" and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty, and his wallet thin, his skills an...

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Published: Feb 2011

Blood Harvest

S. J. Bolton

The Fletchers' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they bare...

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Published: May 2011

Bum's Rush

G. M. Ford

When a homeless woman says she's the mother of a deceased rock idol, sometimes private eye Leo Waterman takes it upon himself to investigate the lady's claim. With the help of "the boys", a band of dissolute deputies, Leo begins a lif...

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Published: Jul 2012

Cast in Stone

G. M. Ford

Leo's boyhood hero, Henry "Heck" Sundstrom was larger than life. Lately, however Heck's life has been spiraling out of control. First the honeymoon boating accident that killed Heck's son and new daughter-in- law, Allison...

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Published: Jul 2012

Perfect Hatred: A Chief Inspector Mar...

Leighton Gage

Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team have a heavy workload with several high–profile cases. First, a suicide bombing that was apparently the work of a militant Islamist group. Then, a gubernatorial candidate is assassinated in b...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Ways of Evil Men (Chief Inspecto...

Leighton Gage

[Read by Jonathan Davis]As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when he hears of a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to charter a plane to Pará to check it out. Thirty-nine n...

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Published: Jan 2014

Ice Run: An Alex McKnight Novel

Steve Hamilton

New York Times Bestselling Author of Die a StrangerEdgar Award–winner Steve Hamilton introduced one of the most compelling characters in modern fiction with Alex McKnight. In Ice Run, Alex finds himself in the middle of a very str...

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Published: Jan 2014

Dead Low Tide

John D. MacDonald

Dead Low Tide is an iconic early thriller from John D. MacDonald, the mastermind behind Cape Fear and the Travis McGee novels. On the coast of Florida, a working stiff is wrongfully accused of murdering his boss—and must outwit one ...

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Published: Jun 2014

Plaster City

Johnny Shaw

Jimmy Veeder and Bobby Maves are back at it, two years after the events of Dove Season—they're not exactly the luckiest guys in the Imperial Valley, but, hey, they win more fights than they lose. Settled on his own farmland and livi...

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Published: Apr 2014

Baked

Mark Haskell Smith

Miro Basinas is an experimental botanist who sells his rarefied product to a discerning clientele. Only Miro's not growing heirloom tomatoes or making organic wine—he's growing weed. And when Miro hits the big time by winning Amster...

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Published: Aug 2010

Conspiracies (Repairman Jack)

F. Paul Wilson

Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson's vigilante hero from the New York Times bestseller The Tomb, returns in a thriller that thrusts him back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in.Looking for clues to the mysterious disappe...

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Published: Sep 2008

Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole)

Robert Crais

Hired by a hotel magnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole encounters the notorious Yakuza, the Japanese mob, and is drawn into a game of sexual obsession, amorality, and evil.'Stalking the Angel i...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2008

Flood

Andrew H. Vachss

In his first appearance, Burke, the hard-boiled private eye and self-appointed avenger of abused children, is hired by a beautiful woman to follow a child's murderer through the alleyways and tenements of New York City. Reprint. 25,00...

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Published: Mar 1998

Wilderness

Robert B. Parker

Aaron Newman witnesses a murder and identifies the killer to the police. When he arrives home, he finds his wife tied up in their bed, the initials of the killer scratched on her stomach. While

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Published: Sep 1980

A Thug's Life

Thomas Long

A realistic portrait of the life and times of an inner-city thug follows the career of Dayvon, a one time kingpin of West Baltimore's thriving drug trade, whose decision to go straight is faced with his former partner's vengeful plot ...

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Published: Jan 2005

The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scud...

Lawrence Block

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer -- a minister's son -- hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private in...

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Published: Sep 1991

The Guards

Ken Bruen

Stuck in a rut after his dismissal from the Irish police force and still grieving the death of his father, Jack Taylor finds renewal when an intriguing woman hires him based on his rumored talent for finding things, unaware of what hi...

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Published: Jan 2004

Flood (Burke)

Andrew Vachss

Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her - so she can kill him with her bar...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Nov 2009

The Killing of the Tinkers (Jack Tayl...

Ken Bruen

Back in Galway and back to his old drinking habits, former member of the Irish Guards Jack Taylor agrees to assist a gypsy in an investigation into the deaths of a number of members of the gypsy clan, deaths that the Guards, the Irish...

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Published: Mar 2005

Fury

G. M. Ford

Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up 'facts' on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy 'Trash...

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Published: Jun 2002

Sacrifice (Burke)

Andrew Vachss

What - or who - could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess pre...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jul 2010

Ghostwriter (Jake O'Hara Mystery)

Noreen Wald

A Brand New Mystery Series That's Hot Off The Press!The new Ghostwriter mystery series, introducing writer-for-hire and detective-by-default Jake O'hara...As good at detection as dreaming up whodunits, this gutsy, single, wisecracking...

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Published: Jun 1999
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