Brash Books: 94 books

**What’s the PI series that Edgar winners Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Steve Hamilton, and Rick Riordan read when they want the best? This one. Thirteen years ago, NYPD Detective, Frank Pavlicek quit the force after a controversial shoot-out that left an unarmed African-American...

The most daring and original hero in crime fiction… in a debut novel that’s a relentless, pure-adrenaline rush.  It’s the mid-1980s. Crime in Los Angeles is running rampant. When the law can’t help you, there is one man who can: Alexander L’Hiboux, whose ability to sleep was...

FIRST WINNER OF THE FRANK WATERS SOUTHWEST WRITING AWARD Circling buzzards lead U.S. Border Patrol agent ​Dolph Martinez​ to the corpse of a man executed in the desert…a murder that shatters the fragile calm in a​ dusty, Texas town. His investigation pits him against the Mexican Army,...

Alexander L’Hiboux is a man who lives on the streets, who never sleeps, who never stops hunting his lawless prey. He is… THE OWL Haunted. Lethal. Unstoppable. Justice incarnate. The most daring and original hero in crime fiction in a scorching, action-packed adventure. SCARLET SERENADE It’s...

“If you’ve noted a testosterone deficiency in your life lately, the second Wyatt Storme mystery will have you walkin’ the walk and talkin’ the talk. Ripley knows what he’s doing and does it well,” Booklist  To help a desperate friend, ex-footballer Wyatt Storme and his hard-charging...

A shrewd, darkly-funny, wildly unpredictable crime novel that marks the dazzling debut of Jack Bunker, a bold new voice in crime fiction. "A breezy page-turner that’s fun-filled and loaded with laughs from the jump. Donald Westlake fans will love this one." Joseph Wambaugh, New...

THE BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER THAT BECAME THE HIT TV SERIES "THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO"  It’s the turbulent 1970s, a time of social upheaval. The generation gap has never seemed so wide and perilous, especially for veteran Santa Monica homicide detective Al Krug and his new partner, university-educated...

THE DEATH OF THE DETECTIVE Mark Smith’s Literary Masterpiece of Crime Fiction.  A National Book Award Finalist  The blockbuster New York Times bestseller. “Remarkable for both its ambition and its accomplishment, it reads as though it were written by a resurrected Charles...

THE MASTERS OF CRIME FICTION BET ON TOM KAKONIS… “Kakonis can really write. In Waverly, he gives us a wonderful character in a brutal world,” Tony Hillerman “Michigan Roll is fast, strong, harsh and beautiful,” Donald Westlake “A wonderful novel – smart, light and...

Before Kinsey Millhone, before VI Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the tough-but-sensitive PI who shattered the boundaries of mystery fiction.  “Nothing daunts Delilah West and nothing short of a bullet between her ribs can stop her for long,” Los Angeles Times The...

“Sensational writing, mordant wit, an intricate crime puzzle...” Harlan Ellison Hardboiled private eye Leo Bloodworth and his self-appointed partner, fifteen-year-old Serendipity Dahlquist, are back in a wild and deadly new mystery that’s every bit as brilliant and memorable as SLEEPING...

If You Like Reacher, You'll Love The Preacher. Once he served God as a priest. Once he served his country as a soldier. Now he serves fate…and his need for redemption…by roaming the country as a professional gambler known only as The Preacher. He brings his high-stakes game of death and...

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 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...