Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Reeling from the death of his great love, Karin, Varg Veum's life has descended into a self-destructive spiral of alcohol, lust, grief and blackouts. When traces of child pornography are found on his computer, he's accused of being part of a paedophile ring and thrown into a prison cell. There, he...

When Mason Grey, a retired church minister, forms a new church at home, a cult is born. Inspired by Biblical killings, the cult hands out their own brand of rough justice. Abbie, a founder member of his congregation, realises something's not right with the cult’s actions, something feels off. Will the cult succeed in their macabre machinations or have they met their match?

Taking a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. The body is that of a butler who spent the last years of his life working for a millionaire—also now deceased—and his notoriously privileged children. Were both...

**A disgraced Los Angeles cop is plunged into an FBI investigation, in a novel from the New York Times–bestselling author who “**can’t write a dull line” (Publishers Weekly). Lloyd Hopkins is breaking down. Once the sharpest detective in Los Angeles homicide, the strain of nearly two...

Teenager Holly Schwartz has vanished. And she’s wanted for murder. Now Jinx Ballou has been hired to track down Holly and return her to custody. But is the girl just another murder suspect fleeing prosecution? Or has something more sinister happened? Jinx’s efforts...

Remo Williams was a simple beat cop. Nobody special, really, until he came to the attention of a secret government organization. They had him killed. Then they brought him back to life, erased his identity, and trained him to be the perfect assassin. All under the pretext of defending the Constitution....

PI Jake Cardigan is on the run from a mysterious assassin in this sci-fi thriller from the iconic Star Trek actor and New York Times–bestselling author. Jake Cardigan has just returned from Mexico, where he fell in love, nearly died, and broke up the infamous Hokori cartel. But the drug kingpins...

Sonchai Jitpleecheep—the brash and beguiling Royal Thai Police Force detective who has been our guide through John Burdett’s five previous acclaimed Bangkok novels—is back. The former monk and devout Buddhist, forever battling to protect his karma from the assaults of morally compromising cases,...

In this sequel to the Nebula Award–nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire called “exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted,” Millie unwillingly returns to the Arcadia Project when an impossible and deadly situation pulls her back in. Four...

An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a thief who turns out to be too hot to handle. Darke Davis destroyed evidence to give his partner-in-crime time to flee with thirty-nine million dollars— and Special Agent Flare Greene is determined to get that money back. Hooking up with Darke at a popular...

THE DEATH OF THE DETECTIVE Mark Smith’s Literary Masterpiece of Crime Fiction.  A National Book Award Finalist  The blockbuster New York Times bestseller. “Remarkable for both its ambition and its accomplishment, it reads as though it were written by a resurrected Charles...

Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature’s most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure.   **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND NPR • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDS The...

2017 Macavity Award nominee, Best Novel From Anthony Award-winning and best-selling author, the third in the Rick Cahill series: Private Investigator Rick Cahill fears the next knock on his door will be a cop holding a warrant for his arrest. For murder. La Jolla Chief of Police Tony...

“A novel of violence, crisp dialogue, and suspense. . . . The reader is immediately caught up in the ambience of danger.”—The Boston Globe At forty-six, Aaron Newman was enjoying the good things in life—a good marriage, a good job—and he was in good shape himself. Then he saw the...