Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Undone by twin tragedies, Leo Haggerty becomes obsessed with revenge The neo-Nazis cruise past the synagogue on Yom Kippur, opening fire right after services end. In the name of hate, a rabbi is gunned down in front of his congregation. The killers are caught, but the driver jumps bail, and...

Could the case of body-guarding the wild daughter of a wealthy invalid be connected to five brutal murders in uptown New Orleans? Private Eye Mike Gonzales meets the daughter when he steps into her father’s mansion. She tries to sit on his lap while he’s standing up. Night time surveillance at...

Chapter 7 of Detective Riley’s First Case opens with Riley, a Baltimore Homicide Detective, driving home to his narrow row house facing on the harbor. He is looking forward to the welcome of his black lab Irish, who shares the house with him, when he is rudely interrupted by a laconic announcement...

Blacky Jaguar, ex-IRA hard man, devoted greaser, and overall hooligan, is furious. Someone’s made off with Polly, his 1959 Plymouth Fury, and there’s not much that can stop him from getting her back. It doesn’t take him to long to get a name, Osito, the Little Bear. This career bastard has Polly...

Lomax chases an accountant who has come back from the dead to blackmail his widow The plane went down outside Tucson, and all aboard were burned beyond recognition. The sole passenger was Martin Blyleven, an accountant employed by a Colorado televangelist with shady business partners, but the...

'Trades' is an action-packed science fiction noir tale of murder and mystery - with a little romance and a sizable portion of humor mixed in. It's a story of dangerous women and hard men battling the odds in a corrupt system. On the last space station in human space, exiled warrior...

In the rural town of Verdon, Nebraska, in the early days of the 20th century, you can't go ten feet without running into one of the Fargos. So, Grant Fargo argues to his grandfather Lincoln, it's perfectly all right that he's desperately in love with his first cousin, Bella-she's the only source of...

POINT AND SHOOT. Life isn't always cheap south of the border -- some lives are worth a million dollars. That’s what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter’s wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose...

The day to day life of a private investigator is not all glitz and glamour. "My name is Nicolette Mace, but you might know me as the Raven Siren. I'm a Private Investigator living the 1930s romantic dream in this new and exciting modern age. I keep records of everything that happens; everything...

I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction; By the Dawn's Early Light,...

I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction. The Merciful Angel of Death...

Artesia, New Mexico. Pop. 3012. There’s nothing 14-year-old Doc Candy likes better on a hot summer afternoon than snapping pictures of dead armadillos off Route 82. Until a no-good grifter of a father he hasn’t seen in eight years comes blowing up to his window at two in the morning in...

After 18 months under the thumb of a local cartel, Selena is ready for a change. Her self-destructive lifestyle and criminal enterprise have put strains on both her relationships and her health. But getting out won’t be easy. Selena’s operation is too lucrative to let go, and this is a business...

In the heat of a Phoenix summer, free-lance journalist Travis Jefferson is recruited to find a missing environmentalist. Travis is a veteran haunted by ghosts--some from the war, others more recent. His search takes him into an incestuous world of sex, politics, money and murder. The police aren't...