Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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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

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 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

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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