Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

"A gritty, fast-paced tale of revenge...Tight, terse prose harkens back to pulp fiction of the 1950s...The work is a breath of fresh air from lengthy, trying-too-hard-to-shock street lit and is an excellent choice for all metropolitan collections." --Library Journal (starred review, Pick...

From the best-selling author of "Dead Men's Dust"  A collection of nine short but action-packed stories featuring Joe Hunter.  Six of the Best  Homecoming  Sand Dance  Instant Justice  UV Ray  The Other Side of the Street  One-Eighty  Hot Property ...

At the height of the Cold War, a dead woman turns up in a bomb shelter Black River Falls used to be a boring small town, but at the pinnacle of the Cuban Missile Crisis, nowhere in America can be boring anymore. As the country awaits nuclear annihilation, Iowa gubernatorial favorite Ross Murdoch...

Reese has tried to live a good, honest life. But life has other plans. From the boss’s wife who wants him to do something terrible to the sleazebags trying to set him up, when things go downhill, they go fast and Reese finds himself fighting for his life as the hard luck piles on. His only way out...

DEALING… PRODUCING…     ALL IN A DAY’S WORK FOR A DRUGLORD.         OR IN HOLLYWOOD. Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the  biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain...

George Denton was a good kid, young, enthusiastic and full of life. All he wanted was a mother who loved him and treated him right; instead, he got Holly. Holly was a waitress at an all-night diner. To save money, she used to take George to work with her, which is where he earned the name Tip. The...

COOL AND LAM RETURN – IN THE CASE OF A LIFETIME Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON – at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print. Among those books were the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible...

"Satisfying example of 'redneck noir.'" Jeff Pierce, "The Rap Sheet"/Kirkus Reviews "Highly recommended." James Reasoner, Rough Edges Weblog "Great job." Bruce Grossman, Bookgasm.com "I had a blast." Jedidiah Ayres, Ransom Notes:...

The DNA evidence should have made the rape a slam dunk case. But after the evidence disappeared from a police locker, the black man accused of brutally raping a popular actor’s daughter walked free. Hired by the actor, private detective Dan Reno’s job seemed simple enough: discover who...

Ex-IRA hard-ass, wanted international criminal, and all-around hooligan Blacky Jaguar is back and on the run. After painting the Cross Bronx Expressway red—literally—and losing his beloved car Polly to his ex, Linda Chen (who isn’t returning his calls because she’s not a complete idiot),...

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down...

Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favor by stopping a rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene. But the next thing Mac knows he's in jail, missing an important date with his girlfriend and reliving nightmares...

Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Anthology/Collection Here you are in New Jersey, but not Soprano-land New Jersey, this is central Jersey, the edge of the Pine Barrens, where the everydayness of life is interrupted by devils and angels, murderers and saviors, cheaters and music...

A CPA in 1940s San Francisco searches for his partner’s killer in this witty and “hard-hitting” mystery by the author of the classic To Catch a Thief (Time). The first in the series of noir mysteries starring hard-drinking accountant Whit Whitney, Death and Taxes follows the calculating...