Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Collection of short stories detailing crime investigation.  Hard to put down, this will keep you enthralled.

It's a bad idea for a drug courier on the job to pick up a woman in a roadside bar. Cyril learns this lesson the hard way when the sultry-voiced girl he brings back to his motel room holds him up at gunpoint. In the meantime Danny, a fast talking sex-offender, has Cyril's car remotely tracked....

All nine books of the Jack Taggart Mystery series are gathered together in this bundle, including the latest mystery, Art and Murder. “Ripped from the headlines … Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows his police work.” — Globe and Mail “One of the best hard-nosed series in Canada.” —...

Once again Australian Police Detectives Jim Murnaghan and 'Birny' Rayner have to battle with a gang of hardened evil criminals who are led by a Satanist. The action takes place mainly around Canberra. Australia's Capital City, and features many of its main buildings, Parliament House, the Prime Ministers...

In 1962 the quiet, and seemingly innocent, activities at the Humboldt Motel in this small West Tennessee town went unnoticed and unchallenged.  Besides, a little booze, a little gambling and maybe an occasional ‘lady of the evening’ never hurt anyone, right? Then one fall night after a...

Rainbow’s got the blues. His girlfriend’s dumped him; his assassin mate Rory’s found God; his Aunt Rube’s as sick as a bad joke; and his ex-wife’s thrown up a barricade all right, a cordon bleu around his daughter Imogene.So when a snake’s let loose in a laboratory, his ballet teacher’s...

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; Let's Get Lost, which...

#1 of a series of hard-hitting British crime novels of approximately 50,000 words, one day reads, concerning the investigations of Detective Sergeant Andy North, 30 years old, six feet tall and slim. This first investigation is about the abduction of his wife Zoe and follows Andy around the City in...

One job, one big pay-off, three essential components: Mo - the hard-case, the career-criminal, fresh out of prison after a long stretch 'inside'. The mastermind. Tracey - the pretty, vulnerable girl, trapped in a world of drugs and prostitution. Nevil - the handsome, lazy charmer...

South-east London gangland meets the alternative lifestyle of a travelling fair. Jet Heywood is a fairground boxer past his prime who, after a street brawl, finds himself nursing a head wound. His brother Scott has long wanted out of his dead-end life as a security van driver. When his van disappears...

All twelve books of the Jack Taggart Mystery series are gathered together in this bundle, including the latest mystery, An Element of Risk. “Ripped from the headlines … Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows his police work.” — Globe and Mail “One of the best hard-nosed series in Canada.” —...

For PI Eddie Collins, the moment Carla Rizzoli sashays into his office casts him deliciously into a scene from a classic noir. Only this femme fatale is a sweet ghost from his past, a time when he made his living exclusively as an actor. Then she was a full-time actress too, and they’d dated briefly...

Paloma Verdes was a woman of exotic beauty and Mitch Cooper had to admit that she had him nearly mesmerized when she first set foot in his San Diego office. But Paloma came with a sad story to go with her good looks. Her brother Enrico was a truck driver and he had taken a load up to San Clemente....

Five years ago Janine Tolley died of what the cops said was a drug overdose. Her daughter Madisyn doesn’t believe it and wants to hire John Logan to find the truth.Maddie is 14, homeless, and Logan believes she simply doesn’t want to face some hard facts about her mom’s death—until...