Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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
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