Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled

The Starfire Breeze steams its way north toward the Gulf of Alaska, buffeted by crisp sea winds blowing down from the Arctic. Those on board are seeking peace, relaxation, adventure, escape. But there is no escape in this place of unspoiled natural majesty. Because...

A suspenseful, thrilling anthology of 24 original short stories inspired by the iconic works of legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, curated by acclaimed editor Maxim Jakubowski. Featuring some of the biggest names in mystery and crime fiction, including Lee Child, Sophie Hannah, Peter Swanson, and...

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a...

During the 1950s, Gold Medal Books introduced authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis to a mass readership eager for stories of lowlife and sordid crime. Today many of these writers are admired members of the literary canon, but one of the...

The world is counting down to the millennium - and to disaster. When a child's body is found on a remote island east of London, journalist Jonny Murphy is sent to investigate. What he uncovers is more than a tragedy. It's a warning. Something...

A New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2024 Winner of Publishing Triangle's Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, and something to prove in this fast-paced, blistering...

From J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.Driven by...

Don't miss this "sexy, bloody thriller"(Publishers Weekly) in #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford's Prey series... The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this,...

BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGHRed Bailey used to be a detective. But then gangster Whit Sterling offered him a job to find the missing Mumsie McGonigle. She'd put a bullet in Whit and worse than that, stolen some of his money. Whit wants her back....

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan takes on the case of a notorious former vigilante--and finds herself embroiled in a case with far-reaching consequences where the truth is as dangerous as the lies she uncovers. . . .PI Tess Monaghan doesn't...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this masterwork of suspense from "a mesmerizing storyteller" (Stephen King), a mild-mannered family is tormented by an obsessed criminal--and decides to take matters into their own hands. Now an Apple TV limited series starring Javier Bardem, Amy Adams,...

In this newest entry in A.F. Carter's Edgar-nominated Delia Mariola series, a group of corrupt cops infiltrates the Baxter P.D. and an undercover agent must work to disarm them. Baxter's a city on the move. You can't drive along a single street without running...

A retired baseball player finds himself fighting for his life in this "fantastically hopped-up thriller [with] a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock" (Entertainment Weekly, Editor's Choice). "Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant."--Harlan CobenNow a major motion picture starring Austin Butler and directed by...

Meet Begley, the reluctant hitman, and Tom Sheridan, the slick bounty hunter in an unforgettable walk through Americana. Taste the liquor, inhale the smoke, feel the grit. Dive into a realm of hard-boiled western tales.Chasing Butterflies and other stories takes you on an extraordinary...

When a dog unearths evidence of a murder in the Hollywood Hills, Detective Harry Bosch must tackle a cold case that sparks memories he's tried to forget.It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an...

In the latest installment in his famous Detective Dave Robicheaux series, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave's partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop ruthless smugglers of a...

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 veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer, on opposite...

The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began...

From "the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler" (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series about two NYPD detectives who must piece together the clues of the scam of a lifetime. Flim-flam man Deke O'Hara...

David Dean has called Joseph S. Walker "arguably the best short crime fiction writer on the scene today," and in Crime Scenes, the first collection of his stories, you'll find ample evidence of why. In the Edgar-nominated "Etta at the End of the World,"...