Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

It's the summer 2010, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Doc Halladay has joined The Philadelphia Phillies in a bid to go back and win the World Series after losing to the New York Yankees in 2009. 6 months ago, Don Gunn's wife died in a car accident. Now he is on the verge of losing his job and career...

A terrorist attack casts one man as a hero—and suspect—in this “remarkable” thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author (Stephen King).   Coney Island is a weird place, packed with people from every walk of life, and David Fitzgerald fits in well. An English professor at...

Pat Carson’s old eyes were on me, looking for something. ‘Man is born unto trouble,’ he said. I said, ‘As the sparks fly upwards.’ Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. ‘Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven’t been a bloody priest too, have you?’ Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful,...

Adam Jordan wrote the best and worst articles of his journalistic career on the same day. The worst was bad enough to get him fired - but the best landed him a new job, penning lurid articles for Real Detective magazine, one of the last of the true-crime pulps.  Only the case they've got...

No-one knows the real reason DI Cole has ended up at Sheerham 'cop-shop'. He's been something of a hero down at Scotland Yard after cracking the notorious Ice-cream Man case. The word is that he grassed on some Masonic lodge cover-up.When Jane West goes missing, Sheerham suddenly has its own paedophile...

While cooling her heels in Federal Prison, Selena finds herself an unwilling pawn in a deadly game played by powers beyond her understanding. Her enemies aren’t finished hurting her. Selena is completely under their control and subjected to the most cruel form of punishment known to the Federal...

It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books - especially the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate hearing on whether these depraved publications should be banned, the would-be censor meets a violent...

HE AGREED TO PROTECT HER FROM A VENGEFUL MOBSTER.   HE JUST DIDN’T REALIZE HE’D HAVE TO JOIN THE MOB TO DO IT. Ray Corson came to Hollywood to be a screenwriter, not hired muscle. But when money’s tight and a beautiful woman asks for your help, how can you say no? But going up...

Young women disappear with depressing regularity in the Southern city of Atlanta, Georgia. Unfortunately, no one really cares if they ever show up again. Private detective Bennett Cole knows this better than most. He's had his share of tough cases that didn't turn out so well, and he'd rather not...

Shadow towns, smugglers and secret notes — this trio of New York authors are a TRIPLE SHOT of twists and turns in three novellas Payback leads to an unmarked grave in Ross Klavan's THUMP GUN HITCHED. A freak accident forces two L.A. cops to play out a deadly obsession that takes them from...

THREE IN A BOX is an ebook collection of books 4 - 6 in the Rafferty P.I. series. WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME A double caseload means multiple mayhem for Rafferty. A trigger-happy octogenarian collides with a larger-than-life bounty hunter. One will win him an unexpected friend. The other...

Als ein 7-jaehriger Bub nach Schulschluss spurlos verschwindet,  bekommt Frank Collins seine Chance. Lange hat der karrieretechnisch kaltgestellte Kriminalbeamte auf einen hochkaraetigen Fall gewartet, mit dem er seine Faehigkeiten unter Beweis stellen kann. Aber der vermisst gemeldete Schuljunge...

Nicolette Mace is a girl that just doesn't fit in. After her mother's death when she could barely walk, Nicolette found all that she had left in the world was her father, Arthur, and her sister, Louise - even they were taken away from her. The only people that she has left are Fred Barlow...

A *NEW *NOIR MASTERPIECE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE CLASSIC 1953 BESTSELLER ANYONE’S MY NAME Fifteen years ago, teenager Alan Benning jogged off a beach – and into a nightmare.  Because what awaited him in the Cape Cod woods was an unspeakable temptation, a moment of panic, and a brutal memory...