Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled

The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe - Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case...

A hardboiled rare book detective seeks a literate killer to clear an innocent man. Joel Crisp knows the dark side of the rare book market. A private detective for an insurer of valuable tomes, he makes his living (and his own book allowance) hunting...

At Harvard, tenure decisions are a matter of life -- or death. For Dennis Gossen, the economics department whiz kid currently being considered for tenure, it's definitely death. When he's turned down by the high-and-mighty Promotion and Tenure Committee, Gossen commits suicide. A Question...

After taking down a man wielding an AR-15 a small town winery, Rushmore McKenzie has to find out who, if anyone, was the shooter's target before he, or someone else, tries again. Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie, after becoming...

Las Cruces wasn't a place most travelers would think to stop. But after private investigator Lew Archer plays the good samaritan and picks up a bloodied hitchhiker, he finds himself in town for a few days awaiting a murder inquest. A hijacked truck full...

"In the gripping Fire and Ice, Jance showcases both Beaumont and Brady....The prolific Jance...is in fine form."--Fort Lauderdale Sun-SentinelNew York Times bestseller J.A. Jance reunites two of her most popular series characters--Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont--in Fire and Ice,...

Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more... DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and...

"A thoughtful and powerful page turner."--People Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiancé, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer's...

"Intense....A higher caliber of entertainment."--New York TimesElmore Leonard's Glitz is a killer...in the best possible way. "The King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama's boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A...

New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers - Book 2 in the series - Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away...

"Chilling, completely credible....[An] absolutely gripping story." --Chicago TribuneNew York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-class Boston in this gripping, deeply evocative thriller. The basis for the critically acclaimed motion picture directed by...

Nashville PI Jackson Gamble has had all manner of clients and cases during his long career as a private investigator, but never a client like the one involving convicted triple-murderer Harvey Harris. Until recently a death-row inmate, and now dying of untreatable cancer, Harvey...

When a personal vendetta leads to a savage prison escape, special agent Sam Rivers must outwit a deadly killer before his family becomes the next target.Sam Rivers expects a quiet few days at a law enforcement conference, held at Peterson's Resort, deep in the...

The dead don't lie. The living do. Former Army CID investigator Ardmore Theberge just wanted to complete his assignment: a routine land survey. But when he discovers a young woman murdered in a historic Maine graveyard--her skull crushed by blunt-force trauma--routine goes out the...

"This is a brilliant blending of worlds and traditions--West African lore meets Easy Rawlins--which makes for something absolutely devourable. And that's exactly what I did. Without a doubt, this is Onyebuchi at his best!" --Jason Reynolds Fortune always left whatever room I walked into,...

"This is a brilliant blending of worlds and traditions--West African lore meets Easy Rawlins--which makes for something absolutely devourable. And that's exactly what I did. Without a doubt, this is Onyebuchi at his best!" --Jason Reynolds Fortune always left whatever room I walked into,...

"One of the strongest in Sandford's Prey series."--Entertainment Weekly "Good, dark, perverse, bloody fun."--The Washington Post Book World Theories abound when a Russian gets himself killed on the shore of Lake Superior--shot with fifty-year-old bullets. But when it turns out he had very high...

If everything was jake, you wouldn't need Nate Moran. Prohibition made rumrunners into folk heroes and lawmen into villains. People romanticized the entrepreneurs who got them their hooch. When those entrepreneurs killed, it became personal for Miami cop Nate Moran. He's the man with...

A spellbinding tale of twisted depravity and blood vengeance featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of TrustJ. A. JanceImprobable CausePerhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair....

The first V.I. Warshawski novel! - "[V.I. Warshawski] is . . . wonderful company and a rich discovery awaiting those who have yet to meet her."--Los Angeles TimesMeeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is...