Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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Gone, Baby, Gone

Dennis Lehane

The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its you...

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Published: Aug 2010

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

Hot Kid

Elmore Leonard

Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse in the 1930s, the period ...

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Published: May 2005

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

Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

James Lee Burke

Trouble follows Dave Robicheaux.James Lee Burke's new novel, Swan Peak, finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purc...

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Published: May 2009

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...

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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...

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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

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...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2005

The Narrows (Harry Bosch)

Michael Connelly

FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call shes dreaded for years. The Poet has returned. Years earlier she worked on the famous case tracking the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous crimes. Rachel has never fo...

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Published: Oct 2006

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.

Unabridged CD
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
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