Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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Miami Blues

Charles Willeford

Holed up in his squalid little room at the Eldorado Hotel, Miami cop Hoke Moseley never saw his assailant coming. By the time the intruder was done, Hoke had lost his gun, his badge, and his pride and joy, his dentures. When he recove...

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Published: Aug 2004

Grifter's Game

Lawrence Block

From a Noir Master, a Classic Tale of Grift and Greed. Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off beautiful women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard and found himself facing the most dangerous con of his career, one t...

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Published: Jun 2005

Wake Up Little Susie (Sam McCain Myst...

Ed Gorman

Filled with 'joyously precise period detail' (Kirkus Reviews), this new Sam McCain mystery brings readers back to 1950s Iowa, as the Ford Edsel is unveiled-and a body is found in the trunk of one of the brand-new cars.

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Published: Feb 2001

Die a Stranger: An Alex McKnight Nove...

Steve Hamilton

The New York Times Bestseller Late one night, a plane lands on a deserted airstrip. Five dead bodies are found there the next morning. And now Vinnie LeBlanc is missing.  Vinnie is a member of the Ojibwa Indian tribe and he just mig...

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Published: Jun 2013

Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee Mys...

John D. MacDonald

"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." — Kurt Vonnegut Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer eve...

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Published: Jun 2013

Rebel Island

Rick Riordan

Triple-crown winner of mystery's most coveted awards—the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus—Rick Riordan and his Texas-style take on the crime novel have never been bigger or darker than in this latest Tres Navarre thriller. This ...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Serpent's Tale

Ariana Franklin

Adelia is back in action! Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of medieval fiction in this enthralling historical novel, the second in the Mistress of the Art of Death series.

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Published: Feb 2008

A Question of Belief: A Commissario G...

Donna Leon

With his hometown beset by hordes of tourists and baking under a glaring sun, Commissario Guido Brunetti's greatest wish is to go to the mountains with his family, where he can sleep under a down comforter and catch up on his reading ...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Undead Kama Sutra

Mario Acevedo

Felix Gomez returned from the war in Iraq a changed man—once a soldier, now forever a vampire. So the undead underworld put his skills to work as a private detective, specializing in the sordid, the sexy, and the supernatural. ...

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Published: Mar 2008

What's a Witch to Do?

Jennifer Harlow

pstrongspan style="font-size: small;"span style="font-family: Calibri;"A suspenseful brew with a dash of passion/span/span/strong/ppspan style="font-size: small;"span style="font-family: Calibri;"High Priestess might sound like an ’...

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Published: Mar 2013

Easy Go

Michael Crichton

Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archaeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site - and ...

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Published: Oct 2013

Down in the Zero (Burke)

Andrew Vachss

Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given listeners a new kind of hero.Investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy suburb, Burke d...

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Published: Jul 2010

Queenpin

Megan E. Abbott

A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. Notoriously cunning and ...

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Published: Jun 2007

Grave Descend

Michael Crichton

Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carr...

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Published: Oct 2013

Frozen Assets: An Officer Gunnhildur ...

Quentin Bates

A body is found floating in the harbor of a rural Icelandic fishing village. Was it an accident, or something more sinister?  It's up to Officer Gunnhildur, a sardonic female cop, to find out. Her investigation uncovers a web of corr...

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Published: Jan 2012

Stirred (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Se...

J. a. Konrath and Blake Crouch

Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has seen humanity at its most depraved and terrifying. She's lost loved ones. Come close to death countless times. But she always manages to triumph over evil. Luther Kite is humanity at its mos...

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Published: Feb 2012

Black Mask 11: Middleman for Murder: ...

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: Aug 2012

Black Mask 7: The Shrieking Skeleton:...

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: May 2012

Black Mask 9: The Corpse Didn't Kick:...

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: Jul 2012

The Hotel Majestic (Mysteries)

Georges Simenon

When the corpse of a guest in a Paris luxury hotel is discovered by the breakfast cook in the basement, Maigret searches for the culprit among the hotel's employees and patrons, an investigation that leads him into a dark and dangerou...

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Published: Jan 2007

Blue Belle (Burke Series)

Andrew H. 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 by preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering o...

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Published: Feb 2012

Crisscross (Repairman Jack Series)

F. Paul Wilson

"Repairman Jack is one of the most original and intriguing characters to arise out of contemporary fiction in ages....hugely entertaining." - Dean Koontz Repairman Jack is back! Jack can fix any problem, natural or supernatu...

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Published: Jun 2013

Infernal (Repairman Jack Series)

F. Paul Wilson

"F. Paul Wilson is a great storyteller and a thoughtful one." - David Morrell The ninth Repairman Jack novel begins with a tragedy that throws Jack together with his brother Tom, a judge from Philadelphia. They've never been...

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Published: Jul 2013

The Dramatist

Ken Bruen

Melancholy Irish PI Jack Taylor, now alcohol- and drug-free, returns for a fourth noir. Jack investigates the suspicious death of his ex-dealer's sister, discovered dead of a broken neck at the bottom of a staircase, lying atop a copy...

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Published: Mar 2007

Get Back Jack (The Hunt For Jack Reac...

Diane Capri

USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Does It Again! NEW Hunt for Jack Reacher Novel!   "Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wid...

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Published: Nov 2013

Hurt Machine

Reed Farrel Coleman

At a pre-wedding party for his daughter Sarah, Moe Prager is approached by his ex-wife and former PI partner Carmella Melendez. It seems Carmella's estranged sister Alta has been murdered, but no one in New York City seems to care. Wh...

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Published: Dec 2011

Scratch One

Michael Crichton

To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt...Portugal...Denmark...France. In response, the United States sends one of its deadliest agents to take...

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Published: Oct 2013

Big Bounce

Elmore Leonard

Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attentions to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor's edge, he's just met his match—and more—in Nancy. She's a ric...

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Published: Apr 2012

A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGe...

John D. MacDonald

"John D. MacDonald created a staggering quantity of wonderful books, each rich with characterization, suspense, and an almost intoxicating sense of place." — Jonathan Kellerman Travis McGee is taking his retirement in inst...

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Published: Jul 2013

The Turquoise Lament: A Travis McGee ...

John D. MacDonald

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Turquoise Lament is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Funny thing about favors. Sometimes they come back to haunt you. ...

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Published: Aug 2013
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