Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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Zero Cool

Michael Crichton

American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation.  But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Ba...

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Published: Nov 2013

The Knife Slipped

Erle Stanley Gardner

At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, and world famous as the creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason. Gardner also created the hardboiled detective team of Cool and...

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Published: Dec 2016

The Fear Artist (Poke Rafferty)

Timothy Hallinan

"Edgar-finalist Hallinan's heartrending, unforgettable fifth Poke Rafferty thriller" (Publishers Weekly starred review) set in Thailand comes to Soho Crime An accidental collision on a Bangkok sidewalk goes very wrong when ...

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Published: Jun 2013

A Hard Ticket Home (A McKenzie Novel)...

David Housewright

Ex-St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time and more money than he knows what to do with. In fact, when he's willing to admit it to himself (and usually he isn't), McKenzie is downright bored. Until he decides to do a favor for a ...

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Published: May 2019

Bones of Echo Lake (Jake Cashen Crime...

Declan James

The discovery of human bones on the idyllic shores of Echo Lake forces Detective Jake Cashen to expose long buried truths. Worthington County's coldest case heats up when ground-breaking on a new luxury subdivision comes with a gri...

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Published: Mar 2023

Payment in Kind: A J.P. Beaumont Nove...

J. A. Jance

A riveting novel of dark secrets and murderous rage featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of Trust In death, they were entwined like lovers—a man and a woman hideously slau...

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Published: Dec 2011

Bullet for a Star (The Toby Peters My...

Stuart M. Kaminsky

Hollywood detectiveToby Peters does a job for one of Tinseltown's finestIt's been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy's arm. Since then he's scratched out a l...

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Published: Apr 2013

Pimp for the Dead (Hardman)

Joe R. Lansdale

"Dennis wrote with assurance. His prose was muscular, swift, and highly readable." Joe R. Lansdale, from his introduction Jim Hardman was an Atlanta cop until he was wrongly accused of corruption and thrown off the force. No...

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Published: Dec 2018

Easy Money (Vintage Crime/Black Lizar...

Jens Lapidus

From one of Sweden's most successful criminal defense laywers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm's underworld. Jorge Barrio is a drug dealer who's in jail again after his accomplices flipped on him to save their own hides. Meticu...

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Published: Nov 2012

Straight Up: A Dan Stagg Novel

James Lear

Who is trying to kill the members of an elite special ops team that worked off the radar in Iraq in the '90s? It's up to Dan Stagg to track down the survivors - the men with whom he stormed an undefended surveillance station, killing ...

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Published: Jun 2015

Hard Landing (A Dan Shepherd Mystery ...

Stephen Leather

Dan Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working for an elite undercover squad, he's lied, cheated, and conned in order to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice. But when a powerful drug lord starts to kill off...

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Published: Apr 2006

Moonlight Mile: A Kenzie and Gennaro ...

Dennis Lehane

New York TimesBestseller This “taut, reflective”* sequel to Gone, Baby, Goneis an explosive tale of integrity and vengeance from the acclaimed master of the new noir, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane. *Dal...

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Published: Oct 2021

Death in a Strange Country: A Commiss...

Donna Leon

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery s...

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Published: Apr 2013

City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit

Elmore Leonard

Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The cool killer is already back on the Detroit scene—thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his lawyer—and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked judge o...

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Published: Oct 2002

Stick

Elmore Leonard

After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it's tough staying straight in a crooked town—and Miami is a pirate's paradise, where investment fat cats ...

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Published: Apr 2012

The Big Goodbye

Michael Lister

Someone is following Lauren Lewis. She ducks into the office of PI Jimmy "Soldier" Riley, not to hire him, but to find out if he's the one following her. Back when they were lovers he told her if he ever decided to, she'd ne...

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Published: Sep 2011

The Dreadful Lemon Sky: A Travis McGe...

John D. MacDonald

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Dreadful Lemon Sky is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Around four in the morning, Travis McGee is jarred awake by a b...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Empty Copper Sea: A Travis McGee ...

John D. MacDonald

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Empty Copper Sea is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.Asking for help is something a proud man like Van Harder would never...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything...

John D. MacDonald

From John D. MacDonald, one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century, comes a science fiction classic with a timeless premise. An aimless young man discovers a way to stop the world in its tracks—and that's when h...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Lonely Silver Rain: A Travis McGe...

John D. MacDonald

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Lonely Silver Rain is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Travis McGee has luck to thank for his reputation as a first-ra...

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Published: Nov 2013

The Long Lavender Look: A Travis McGe...

John D. MacDonald

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Long Lavender Look is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.A lovely young thing, wearing little more than a determined look, ...

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Published: Jul 2013

The Scarlet Ruse: A Travis McGee Nove...

John D. MacDonald

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Scarlet Ruse is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Travis McGee's getting lazy. Drinking Boodles on the Busted Flush has...

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Published: Aug 2013

Blue City (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard...

Ross MacDonald

He was a son who hadn't known his father very well.  It was a town shaken by a grisly murder—his father's murder.  Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering.  When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a ...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Chill (Special Edition) (Vintage ...

Ross MacDonald

A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Anniversary Edition of The Chill by Ross Macdonald. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy. In The Chilla distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But...

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Published: Jul 2022

The Far Side of the Dollar (Vintage C...

Ross MacDonald

Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where st...

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Published: Nov 1996

The Ivory Grin (Vintage Crime/Black L...

Ross MacDonald

A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of hi...

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Published: Jul 2007

The Three Roads (Vintage Crime/Black ...

Ross MacDonald

Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him—that's how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine.  He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead.  Out on the sunlit street...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Way Some People Die (Vintage Crim...

Ross MacDonald

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, sh...

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Published: Jul 2007

Gatsby's Vineyard (Fiddler & Fiora Se...

A. E. Maxwell

'The writing is lean and restrained, and Fiddler . . . gives Travis McGee a real run for his money.'-Los Angeles Times'Maxwell manages a slam-bang climax . . . and the California wine business background is unusual and entertaining.'-...

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Published: Nov 2009

Just Enough Light to Kill (Fiddler & ...

A. E. Maxwell

Named by TIME magazine as one of the best suspense novels of the year"Fiddler is to California what Spenser is to Boston and Travis McGee is to Florida. Tough, smart guys who know that sometimes, what looks like paradise, is pu...

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Published: Feb 2010
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