Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Turbine 7000 Dozer tangles with an old friend to save a beatnik, who gave him a bad first impression. However, the problems will only stack on from there. As the sun sets and a new friendship is cast, Turb will not only be taken into the ugly side of corruption, but the depths of his own memories...

What if a total stranger gave you $95,000 in cash as he lay dying in the street? Do you keep it? Even after knowing who it really belongs to? Ex-private investigator Jack Barnett is handed such an envelope on a back street in Las Vegas. He needs the money, but as he learns more about it, he...

Nominated for Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe awards, Kiss Her Goodbye is a hard-hitting crime novel about a violent man confronting the reality of his daughter's death. Violence is Joe Hope's business. When people in Edinburgh want to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don't pay...

A British journalist with a taste for trouble finds more than he bargained for in this slick, hard-boiled mystery debut. Radio reporter Sam Ridley is a drunk, but not too drunk to spot a good story. Elaine York's body was found in one of London's less salubrious neighborhoods, and her baby...

Sex, Thugs, and Rock-n-Roll The wild, daring, sexy and outrageously original crime novel from Macavity Award winner and two-time Anthony Award nominee Craig Faustus Buck. Nob Brown is a divorced, disillusioned thirty-something ex-cop turned bottom-feeding tabloid writer. His best friend...

An anoymous tip has led a hard-boiled detective and two deputies into the desert on a recovery operation. The overwhelming solitude lends the scene an air of remorse and quiet reverence.  Lost in his thoughts, the detective draws parallels between violence on a massive scale and the ability of life to endure.   

The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here...

Even detectives need to pay the rent, which is why Deacon Bishop found himself spending nights taking pictures of an unfaithful wife and her lover. Considering the wife’s lifestyle, it wasn’t a complete surprise when she turned up missing but Bishop agrees to take the job of finding her… if...

Private detective Deacon Bishop is feeling his age when he's awakened in the middle of the night by a low-rent hoodlum. But the criminal, Davey Kenyon, has something Bishop wants so bad he can smell it--evidence against the Portello crime family. Before the two can reach a bargain, though, Kenyon...

Lukas Novak’s life has just taken a turn for the worst. His wife wants a divorce and Lukas has had enough of being the underdog. He promises himself to start over. There is just the matter of the death of his old family friend Tibor, and his funeral to be taken care of. But all is not what...

Herodotus Award winner for Best Historical Mystery“Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.” —SalonWho is Smokey Dalton?Private Investigator Smokey Dalton works for Memphis, Tennessee’s black community. He has almost...

“One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.” –Stephen King “Hard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban souls– you’re gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror.” –Fangoria, on...

The first three thrillers in the highly acclaimed London Large series featuring Inspector Harry Hawkins: Blood on the Streets, Bound by Blood and Bloody Liberties - plus six bonus short stories. Meet DI Harry Hawkins, 'H' to his friends and enemies alike. A hurting, damaged man out of time...

Greed kills as Investigative Reporter Jess Kimball’s impossible mission to protect crime victims continues in this new novel from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Capri.** When investigative reporter Jess Kimball’s Taboo Magazine assignment reveals a modern Italian...