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A compelling and compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel that follows a hard-drinking PI accused of a murder he didn’t commit--or did he? Eddie King wakes up one morning with a splitting headache to find two cops in his room, who begin questioning him about the murder...

Returning to Los Angeles after a long absence, Chas Pharlain, aging tough talking detective, takes a slam dunk case to find what he believes to be a wealthy sex symbol's lap dog, and finds himself chin deep in mortgage murder.Poochy is missing. His son is toddling on the brink of destruction....

As the toughest son with the fewest morals, Manō Alana promised his mother that he’d protect his siblings. Since her death, he’s embraced his role as the family heavy, but killing is the one part of his job he hates. And the awful nightmares driving him to commit violence aren’t doing him any...

It's a dead-end, is Grimsby, the end of the track. Next stop the Humber estuary. Or the North Sea. Twenty years ago, on a sticky, brooding summer's night, with all the recklessness of youth, three young, vodka-befuddled teenage girls, bubbling with fun, head for the local park in high spirits,...

For Jacob, moving to Afronia means opportunity and love, but a terrorist attack could signal the end of everything he has worked so hard to achieve. A handful of politically connected elite families control Afronia, but for many, and especially rural villagers, the future holds nothing but...

When PI Frank Hummer takes on a new case to help a woman in distress, he soon finds himself in a web of lies and deception. Ghosts from the past reach out toward him, demanding atonement for the things he committed a decade ago, things he tried hard to forget.  

Lawrence Block konnte mit seinen 17 Matthew-Scudder-Romanen die Herzen von Lesern in der ganzen Welt gewinnen – und auch eine Vielzahl von Literaturpreisen, wie den Edgar Allan Poe Award (Edgar), den Shamus Award, den deutschen Marlowe-Preis und den japanischen Maltese Falcon Award. Und es ist vor...

Die zweite Kurzgeschichte mit dem New Yorker Privatdetektiv Matthew Scudder. »Ich begann Mitte der siebziger Jahre damit, über Matthew Scudder zu schreiben. Der erste Roman, ›Die Sünden der Väter‹ (›The Sins of the Fathers‹), erschien 1975, der 17. und bislang letzte Roman der Reihe,...

Tom Ludwig and Mark Carlino are two top notch detectives. Mostly they handle hard driving cases that take them to the far corners of their precinct. For a change, they are assigned to the seemingly innocent death of an elderly bellhop at one of the most exclusive hotels in town. Innocent until...

It was just a liesurly stroll through Golden Gate Park on a beautiful San Francisco Sunday when fate takes hold of Janus. A man walking in front of him is murdered, shot with a high powered sniper rifle. Confusion follows when the victim's twin brother shows up and asks Janus to take on the job of...

  Le corps du Père Zosime fut préparé pour l’inhumation d’après le rite établi. On ne lave pas les moines et les ascètes décédés, le fait est notoire. « Lorsqu’un moine est rappelé au Seigneur, lit-on dans le Grand Rituel, le frère préposé à cet effet frotte...

This volume includes the novels "By the Balls," "Five Shots and a Funeral," along with brand-new short stories and other bonus materials. This is a reissue of an underground crime-fiction cult classic with a lot of new materials. Pascoe is an Emmy Award-winning writer...

If you lose a black cape, and can’t go to the cops, then you come to me because that’s what I do. I’ve been in the game for years. I know all the curves and all the angles, and if it gets rough then so be it, I got plenty strength, I’m double tough, and I never quit. And if need be I’ll...

A down-and-out LA actor with a knack for impersonations finds his circumstances completely reversed by a chance meeting with a look-alike stranger. After a night of drinking with his new friend discussing the possibilities made possible by their similar appearance, the stranger offers the actor a ride...