Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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Philly Stakes

Gillian Roberts

The central pleasure is Pepper and her catalogue of urban woes, delivered with self-depracting savagery and humor in a scathing first person.'THE PHILADELHPIA INQUIRER Book two in the Amanda Pepper mystery series. Amanda Pepper, an En...

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Published: Jan 1995

The Comedy is Finished

Donald E. Westlake

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and p...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012

Harbingers (Repairman Jack Series)

F. Paul Wilson

It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio's when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it's too ...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Blade Itself

Marcus Sakey

On the South Side of Chicago, you’re only as strong as your reputation. Danny Carter and his best friend Evan earned theirs knocking over pawnshops and liquor stores, living from score to score, never thinking of tomorrow…...

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Published: Nov 2007

My Dead Body

Charlie Huston

NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan's Vampyres, he's definitely a dead man walking. He's been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman...

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Published: Nov 2008

Calibre

Ken Bruen

When the so-called 'Manners Killer,' a serial murderer who selects his victims from among those who are publicly rude, begins to send letters about his crimes to the Southeast London police squad, cantankerous Inspector Brant vows to ...

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Published: Jul 2006

Priest (Jack Taylor Series)

Ken Bruen

Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citizen.Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent trauma ...

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Published: Jan 2008

Blossom (Burke)

Andrew Vachss

In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and s...

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Published: Apr 2010

Crucified Dreams

Joe R. Lansdale

Crossing noir with the supernatural, this luridly visceral anthology attacks polite society and plunges into the unthinkable horrors lurking in its underbelly. Searching for some beauty in a time of increasing poverty and neglect, the...

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Published: Mar 2011

One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee ...

John D. MacDonald

"John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." - Stephen King It only takes one word to get Travis McGee to leave the sunny deck of his houseboat in Ft. Lauderdale for the gray cold ...

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Published: May 2013

The Hunter and Other Stories

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett is best known as both pioneer and master of American hard-boiled detective fiction, but these dozen and a half stories both affirm that reputation and present him in a different light. Along with the full-length scree...

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Published: Nov 2013

A Flash of Green: A Novel

John D. MacDonald

A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz.A Flash of Green tells the gripping story of small-town corruption and two people brave enough to fight back, featuring many of the th...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Turnaround

George P. 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 night reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to ...

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Published: Aug 2008

A Shot of Brandi

David S. Tanz

Set in the Eastern colossal cities of Atlantic City and Philadelphia, A Shot of Brandi is a crime novel for the ages. Complete with mobsters, murders, lovers, and the Colombo-like crime skills of the Organized Crime Task force, this s...

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Published: Nov 2011

Transient Desires: A Commissario Guid...

In the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called “an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event,” Guido Brunetti is forced to confront an unimaginable crime In his many year...

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Published: Mar 2022

Killing Quarry

Max Allan Collins

The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns with an all-new assignment. By Quarry's creator, the award-wining author of Road to Perdition!Quarry, star of 13 previous novels, a comic book and the acclaimed Cinemax...

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Published: Nov 2019

Bearing Secrets (Wil Hardesty Novels)...

Richard Barre

PI Wil Hardesty must face more than his past when the discovery of the 17-year-old wreckage of a plane--and its illicit cargo--prompts the suicide of '60s radical Max Pfieffer. Pfieffer's daughter knows it wasn't suicide. She wants Ha...

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Published: Dec 1998

Black Mountain (An Isaiah Coleridge N...

Laird Barron

Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valley, and in his newest case, a seemingly simple murder investigation leads him to the most terrifying enemy he has ever faced When a sm...

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Published: Apr 2020

Dark Waters

L. L. Bartlett

For Jeff Resnick, the trouble starts with a near-death experience. Brenda's family comes to visit and one of them reminds Jeff of the thugs who mugged him. His brother has taken possession of an expensive boat. The yacht holds a dea...

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Published: Oct 2013

Murder Below Montparnasse: An Aimee L...

Cara Black

DIVParisian private investigator Aimee Leduc is in a tough spot. Her long–time partner and best friend Rene has abandoned their company to move to Silicon Valley, and now Aimee has to handle the whole workload by herself. Her godfat...

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Published: Mar 2013

Murder in Saint-Germain (An Aimée Le...

Cara Black

A Los Angeles Times National BestsellerA BBC Best Summer Read of 2017A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017 A Huffington Post Best Mystery of 2017Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimee Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain whe...

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Published: May 2018

Keller's Fedora

Lawrence Block

Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking him to tackle the most unusual assignment of his caree...

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Published: Mar 2020

Out on the Cutting Edge

Lawrence Block

[Read by Dan Butler]Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudde...

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Published: Jan 2014

Sinner Man

Lawrence Block

LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New ...

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Published: Nov 2016

The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes

Lawrence Block

In the depths of her blue eyes, he glimpsed... murder.Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearin...

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Published: Jul 2016

Easy Death

Daniel Boyd

'TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS……and two robbers hired by a local crime boss manage to heist half a million dollars from an armored car.  But getting the money and getting away with it are two different things, especially with a ...

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Published: Nov 2014

London Boulevard

Ken Bruen

When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't even remember, Billy Norton is there to pick him up. But Norton works for Tommy Logan, a ruthless loan shark lowlife with plans Mitchell w...

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Published: Sep 2011

Hit The Road Jack (The Hunt for Jack ...

Diane Capri

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Capri returns with a collection of #1 Bestselling short books never before presented in one volume. "Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too." Lee Child, #1...

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Published: Aug 2014

Jack Frost (Hunt for Jack Reacher)

Diane Capri

The last time Jack Reacher passed through South Dakota, almost everyone close to him was savagely murdered. Some say Reacher killed them. Maybe he did. But one ruthless gangster survived. FBI Special Agent Kim Otto lands in the mid...

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Published: Mar 2021
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