Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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The Green Ripper: A Travis McGee Nove...

John D. MacDonald

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Green Ripper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Travis McGee has known his share of beautiful girls, but true love al...

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Published: Oct 2013

Breakout: A Parker Novel

Richard Stark

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a co...

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Published: Aug 2017

Gone 'til November

Wallace Stroby

When Florida sheriff's deputy Sara Cross arrives on the scene of a roadside shooting, she finds another deputy, Billy Flynn, has killed a twenty-two-year-old man. Clearly shaken up, Billy—Sara's former partner and lover—claims the...

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Published: Jan 2011

SignWave: An Aftershock Novel

Andrew Vachss

Once a mercenary, later an assassin, and now living a different life, Dell has bone-marrow-deep loyalty and protective instincts that know no bounds when it comes to his wife, Dolly, a former battle-field nurse, and their close-knit g...

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Published: Jun 2016

Blood Is the Sky: An Alex McKnight No...

Steve Hamilton

Before Blood Is the Sky, the Alex McKnight series had already hit bestseller lists and won awards, but this novel took it to a whole new level. Set in the forests of northern Ontario, a land of savage beauty and sudden danger, Blood I...

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Published: Nov 2013

Ammunition (Inspector Brant)

Ken Bruen

Over the many years that Inspector Brant has been bringing his own patented brand of policing to the streets of southeast London, the brilliant but tough cop has made a few enemies. So when a crazed gunman, hired by persons unknown, p...

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Published: Jul 2007

Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

G. M. Ford

When an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, without the sense God gave a gopher...

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Published: Jul 2012

Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKn...

Steve Hamilton

Steve Hamilton's novels starring ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight have won multiple awards and appeared on bestseller lists nationwide. And when you start reading Winter of the Wolf Moon, you will instantly understand why. . .Wh...

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Published: Feb 2001

True Crime

Andrew Klavan

In the heat of the city, a man is out of time: speeding in a beat-up Ford Tempo, blasting easy-listening music. Reporter Steve Everett drinks too much, makes love to his boss's wife, and has just stumbled upon a shocking truth: a con...

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Published: Aug 1997

Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel (Kenzie and...

Dennis Lehane

In this “absolutely gripping” (Chicago Tribune) thriller, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-class Boston. The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is n...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Galton Case (Vintage Crime/Black ...

Ross MacDonald

Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find hi...

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Published: Nov 1996

Clockers

Richard Price

Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers 'an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair' (USA Today)At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a v...

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Published: Mar 2008

Another Life (Vintage Crime/Black Liz...

Andrew Vachss

In this blistering conclusion to the nationally bestselling series, Burke is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family forever.The only person Burke has ever called father, known t...

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Published: Sep 2009

Pastime (Spenser)

Robert B. Parker

Certain that his mother's shady boyfriend is behind her disappearance, Paul Giacomin calls upon the skills of Spencer to help him find his missing mother. Reprint. AB. PW.

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Published: Apr 1992

The Judas Goat

Robert B. Parker

Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy. But there are nine ki...

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Published: Jun 1992

Early Autumn

Robert B. Parker

A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his o...

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Published: Apr 1992

The Widening Gyre

Robert B. Parker

The adoring wife of Senate candidate Meade Alexander has a smile as sweet as candy and dotted her i's with little hearts. A blond beauty, she was the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she had a little problem with sex and ...

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Published: Jun 1992

Ceremony

Robert B. Parker

From the bestselling author of Crimson Joy. Spenser's out to make war, not love, as he goes after Boston's entire X-rated industry. Pretty teenager April Kyle has disappeared into the city's darkest underworld, and to rescue her, Spen...

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Published: Aug 1992

Looking for Rachel Wallace

Robert B. Parker

When Spenser accepts a job as a 'bodyguard' for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head. '(Spenser) gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself...

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Published: Aug 1987

Taming a Sea-Horse

Robert B. Parker

In his latest highly acclaimed Spenser novel, Robert B. Parker takes readers into the murky big-city underground where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute, and finds himself traveling amidst the sl...

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Published: May 1987

A Savage Place

Robert B. Parker

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Published: Oct 1992

Playmates

Robert B. Parker

Spenser smells corruption in a college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. All manner of sleaze -- from corrupt academics to hoods with graduate degrees -- have their fingers in the pot. ...

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Published: Mar 1990

Stardust (Spenser)

Robert B. Parker

When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way. First, there's Jill herself. She's spoiled, arrogant, drugged ou...

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Published: May 1991

Drop Shot: A Myron Bolitar Novel

Harlan Coben

In the second Myron Bolitar novel from Edgar Award–winner Harlan Coben, a young woman’s tragic death spirals into a shattering drama of menace, secrets, and rage. Suddenly Myron is in over his head—and playing the most dangerous...

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Published: Jan 2013

Back Spin: A Myron Bolitar Novel

Harlan Coben

Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspec...

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Published: Jul 1997

Joyland

Stephen King

A STUNNING  NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME - NOW OUT IN MASS MARKET PAPERBACK!The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summ...

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Published: Apr 2014

Southtown

Rick Riordan

When a dangerously violent criminal and his gang escape from prison, Tres Navarre wonders at the silence of employer and mentor Erainya Manos, whose husband helped build the case that sent the man to prison. By the author of Cold Spri...

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Published: Dec 2004

Blossom

Andrew H. Vachss

In this savagely convincing novel, Burke finds himself in a fading Indiana mill town, trying to clear a boy charged with a series of sexually motivated shootings. He's intent on finding the real sniper--and his unlikely ally is a beau...

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Published: Oct 1996

Crimson Joy

Robert B. Parker

A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give. Spenser plays...

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Published: Apr 1989

Wicked Fix: A Home Repair is Homicide...

Sarah Graves

Do-it-yourself killer fixes small-town thug...For ex-Wall Streeter Jacobia Tiptree and her teenaged son, Sam, September promises tranquil days winter-proofing their rambling handyman's special of a home in Eastport, Maine. But there'...

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Published: Apr 2000
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