Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Kidnapped and pregnant, Abby finds salvation in the arms of naval captain Eric. Can he keep her safe as danger rages around them? Follow their heart-pounding journey in this complete collection from a NY Times & USA Today bestselling author! If you like The SAVED SERIES you might also enjoy...

A cynical, disabled film director with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in this Nebula Award–nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that’s the first novel in a new urban fantasy series from debut...

When you say paradise, I think snakes. Maybe that’s because I live in the slice of paradise known as southern California’s Gold Coast. And maybe it’s because I spend my time killing other people’s reptiles. So I wasn’t too surprised when my ex-wife and sometime lover, Fiora Flynn, came to me...

Murder at sea. No survivors, no evidence, no loose ends. Only a boatload of cash left for the taking. In this explosive novel from the author of the Travis McGee series, nothing is certain—not with enough money at stake to change a dozen lives . . . or end them. Introduction by Dean Koontz Crissy...

Boston P.I. Sunny Randall joins forces with the most important man in her life—her father—to crack a thirty-year-old case. When a serial murderer dubbed “The Spare Change Killer” by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out the cop, now...

There’s no smell quite like a decomposing corpse. When Detectives Daggers and Steele find a body washed ashore after two weeks at sea, they’re only too happy to put it behind them, following the trail to a quaint, seaside village—but the town’s idyllic exterior can’t hide a rotten core....

A shrewd, darkly-funny, wildly unpredictable crime novel that marks the dazzling debut of Jack Bunker, a bold new voice in crime fiction. "A breezy page-turner that’s fun-filled and loaded with laughs from the jump. Donald Westlake fans will love this one." Joseph Wambaugh, New...

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore. Then all hell breaks loose. Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are...

John Webster has seen the terrible things human beings can do. He's an experienced investigative journalist, recently returned from the war in Afghanistan. John saw hell over there; he looked death straight in the face. He is glad to back to the normalcy of his home-that is until he realizes there is...

Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hardboiled crime novel, and his creation the Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect...

From urban fantasy and USA Today bestselling author Annie Bellet comes three paranormal mystery short stories featuring Creole gentleman Remy Pigeon. Remy Pigeon has a gift, or a curse.  He touches objects and reads the past from them. Sometimes this lets him solve mysteries, but mostly it...

Eddie Royce is an up-and-coming science fiction writer with a terrible secret: he cheats. He knew he'd get caught, of course. Eventually. But not like this. When disaster finally strikes, it strikes big, and Eddie is confronted by the worst person imaginable: his idol, the SF master, Chester...

IN THE BOOK 14 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES: Housewife assassin Donna Stone must be more than just ready for her close-up if she’s to infiltrate a television reality show in order to stop the broadcast of a live terrorist attack.

“There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate.”—The New York Times With his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to superstardom as one of the most notorious bestselling sensations in publishing history. This powerhouse collection...