Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Number 1 in Crime Number 1 in Men's Adventure Number 1 in Women's Adventure When Jack Marconi's on again/off again ex-fiancee and Girl Friday, Val Antonelli, shows up unannounced at his gym, Marconi feels his broken heart lift. But what he doesn't know yet is that she's not here to rekindle...

A novella and five short stories from one of the most hard-boiled writers in American crime fiction Nobody plays accordion like Dick Contino. His skilled fingers can find beauty in even the schmaltziest borscht belt favorites, and with his matinee-idol looks he could be a real star. Right now,...

Avalanches are deadly, but high up in the Rocky Mountains, something even more sinister awaits... Private investigator Katerina Carter and boyfriend Jace Burton embark on a cozy weekend getaway just before Christmas at a luxury mountaintop lodge. While he writes the biography of a billionaire...

Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History All failed actor and unlicensed private eye Clark Gable has to do is impersonate a wealthy scriptwriter for a few hours, and sign a contract for the biopic of the inventor of a device which has transformed the world of entertainment. What could...

**HUNT FOR JUSTICE THRILLER SERIES: Books 4-6 Boxed Set ** “Intricate and Ingenious. Make some coffee. You’ll read all night.” -- Lee Child Licensed to Thrill 4 contains books 4-6 Hunt for Justice thrillers from USA Today and New York Times Bestselling Author Diane Capri More than...

Life hasn’t been easy for Eugene “Huge” Smalls. Sure, his IQ is off the charts, but that doesn’t help much when you’re growing up in the 1980s in a dreary New Jersey town where your bad reputation precedes you, the public school system’s written you off as a lost cause, and even...

The girl has gone missing. Again. But this time people are trying to kill her. Trying to burn down everything she has touched or left behind. The girl's surrogate father feels responsible and to assuage his guilt, he hires Richard Dean Buckner, former Saint Ansgar homicide detective turned private...

Andrew Vachss, the master of hard-boiled fiction, returns with a deeply revealing new novel about an assassin whose love forced him to kill his own conscience. Esau Till’s race is almost run. After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, he sits on death row, awaiting lethal injection....

“The elusive Barker is a deserving member of an exclusive society; that of the great detective. He uses his intellect in a way that most people fail to do and cuts through to the heart of the mystery with precision.” -Billierosie Not every hero lives in a mansion or works from a smoky,...

In a city full of superheroes there is only one man trying to balance the scales of justice. Private Detective Jack Story. A former superhero wants Jack to find her husband. A husband that is a former supervillain and disappeared chasing a Faberge egg rumored to have mystical powers.  But...

n a city full of superheroes there is only one man interested in balancing the scales of justice: Private Detective Jack Story. If you enjoy detectives, dames, and superheroes who try to commit murder, you'll love the world of Jack Story.  It's a world Inspired by the works of Raymond Chandler,...

T.K. O'Neill received national recognition from the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards for Jackpine Savages—hard-boiled detective fiction in the tradition of Ross MacDonald and Robert B. Parker, set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior.Carter Brown always wanted to be a private eye....

Zachary Nixon Johnson is the last private eye on earth (long story, starts here). And in the pop culture-crazed, deco-inspired world of 2057, that makes him a bit of a celebrity. It also makes him a magnet for trouble. In his years as a PI, Zach has seen a lot of strange things and solved a lot of...

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels...