Jack Lynch: 12 books

In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery, fakery, and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. Confrontations with inauthenticity, in other words,...

Call Peter Bragg if You Don’t Want To… WAKE UP AND DIE The blistering fourth novel in the multiple Shamus and Edgar Award nominated Bragg series of crime thrillers by Jack Lynch. A blackmail case leads private eye Peter Bragg across the Golden Gate to Sausalito, a waterfront playground for...

This is the action-packed novel that launched Jack Lynch’s Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series…vaulting him into the pantheon of detective fiction masters alongside Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, Robert B. Parker and Ross MacDonald. “Tough, taut...

Desperate men with nothing to lose make one last demand. Get Peter Bragg. SPEAK FOR THE DEAD The Shamus Award-nominated fifth novel in Jack Lynch’s Edgar-Award-nominated series of detective novels. An escape attempt at San Quentin goes to hell, a guard is beaten into a coma, and the hard-core...

The Shamus Award-nominated, action-packed third thriller in the Bragg series of private eye novels that propelled author Jack Lynch into the league of detective fiction legends alongside Sue Grafton, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross MacDonald. “Bragg is authentic,...

THE MISSING AND THE DEAD The Edgar Award nominated second thriller in the Bragg series of novels puts Jack Lynch in the same league as Robert B. Parker, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross MacDonald.  “Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty.” San Francisco Examiner Private...

The sixth novel in the multiple Shamus and Edgar Award nominated Bragg series that placed Jack Lynch among the masters of detective fiction.  Bragg runs into Jo Sommers, a woman he longed for many years ago…and who is now unhappily married. Hour's later, she's accused of murdering her husband....

THE FIRST THREE, POWERHOUSE NOVELS IN JACK LYNCH’S EDGAR AWARD-NOMINATED AND TWO-TIME SHAMUS AWARD-NOMINATED BRAGG SERIES…NOW IN ONE VOLUME! Private investigator Peter Bragg learns that "The Dead Never Forget" when he’s hired by a retired mobster to find out who is threatening...

"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated...

THE LONG-LOST EIGHTH AND FINAL NOVEL IN THE MULTIPLE SHAMUS AND EDGAR AWARD NOMINATED BRAGG SERIES. A psychic Peter Bragg once saved from suicide has seen her future… death at the hands of a serial killer… and turns to Bragg to save her life again. As one corpse after another is unearthed...

In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers--those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. *Proper Words in Proper Places offers the first narrative history of these endeavors and shows clearly that what we now regard as the only "correct"...

The seventh novel in the multiple Shamus and Edgar Award nominated Bragg series Someone is trying to scare Benny Bartlett, a freelance writer in Seattle into leaving the Jet City…and he has no clue why. It starts with threatening phone calls but escalates into gunfire. The police won’t...