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Dark Houses by Helen H. Durrant
14 ratingsTHE STUNNING NEW CRIME MYSTERY FEATURING D.I. GRECO BY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR HELEN H. DURRANT A young woman is found brutally murdered in an empty house Detective Stephen Greco and his team must piece together her life as quickly as possible. Within twenty-four hours there is another horrific murder using the same method... -
King City by Lee Goldberg
16 ratingsMajor Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption…turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he’s exiled to patrol a beat in King City’s deadliest neighborhood… with no back-up, no resources, and no hope of survival... -
The Chale Bay Murders by Pauline Rowson
6 ratingsMeet DI Andy Horton. He’s a risk-taking Harley-Davidson-riding detective who doesn’t always play by the rules . . . which often lands him in trouble with his bosses.Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller.An elderly man obsessively watches the coast from his Victorian house high on the hill above Ventnor... -
Murder in an Irish Bog by David Pearson
10 ratingsToo late to find a missing man, are Irish detectives in time to catch his killer?It is only a passing comment in the post office in a remote part of Western Ireland that alerts police to the disappearance of Davin Faherty.But foul play is established when his unceremoniously wrapped corpse turns up in a bog... -
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The House on Gallows Green by Frances Lloyd
14 ratingsWhen Dick and Rosemary Brown move to the countryside to escape the city and its violence, the last thing they worried about was the disappearance of the previous owners of their house, Gallows Green... -
Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards
6 ratingsLos Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery... -
The Secret Fear by Solomon Carter
14 ratingsDETECTIVE JOE HOGARTH IS CALLED TO A BRUTAL MURDER AT A TURKISH TAKEAWAY. THE TELL-TALE MARK OF A ONCE NOTORIOUS LONDON CRIME FAMILY IS FOUND ON THE VICTIM’S BODY. HOGARTH FEARS THE NEW CASE COULD OPEN A PANDORA'S BOX. BUT HE HAS NO CHOICE.HOGARTH MUST FIND THE KILLER AND TAKE ON THE DEADLIEST RISKSMurdered kebab shop owner Baba Sen was beloved by his clientele... -
Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald
18 ratingsTush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. His measly plot of land just so happened to sit right in the middle of a rich parcel of five hundred riverfront acres that big-money real estate interests decided they simply must have.It didn’t matter that Tush was a nice guy with a family, or that he never knew he was dealing with a criminal element... -
Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado
24 ratingsRestare viva non è mai stato tanto difficile. Dopo Regina Rossa, che ha incoronato Antonia Scott come la nuova protagonista assoluta del thriller spagnolo, il secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Juan Gómez-Jurado. Antonia Scott e Jon Gutiérrez sono ancora alla ricerca di Sandra Fajardo, quando Mentor li convoca per un altro caso al momento più pressante... -
See Her Burn by Margaret Murphy
10 ratingsPLEASE NOTE THIS BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED AS “THE DISPOSSESSED”A woman’s body is found stuffed inside a wheelie bin. Stripped of her clothes. Drained of her blood. Thrown out with the rubbish.Detective Jeff Rickman is on the case. Within hours, the police have their prime suspect. And it’s Rickman himself.Elsewhere, a cruel prank ends with four innocent people burnt to death... -
The Missing Wife by Roger Silverwood
14 ratingsA DETECTIVE WHO’S NO ANGEL DESPITE HIS NAME. Discover a gripping series of murder mysteries set in south Yorkshire. MEET DETECTIVE INSPECTOR MICHAEL ANGEL. AN OLD-SCHOOL POLICEMAN WHO SOMETIMES RUBS HIS COLLEAGUES UP THE WRONG WAY. HE’S GOT HIS FLAWS, BUT HE NEVER GIVES UP ON A CASE. PLEASE NOTE THIS BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED AS “CHOKER... -
The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald
16 ratingsTravis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, perhaps Mary Alice McDermit does, a six-foot knockout who knows all the ways to a boat bum's heart... -
The Gentleman's Hour by Don Winslow
18 ratingsBoone Daniels, the most laid-back of private investigators, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific Beach, California as per usual. There's no surf to speak of, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force anyway...it's what they do... -
Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald
18 ratingsA wealthy old man laid up in the hospital is desperate to understand the last months of his daughter's life before she was killed in a car crash in Mexico. It was puzzling. She'd cleaned out her considerable bank account, left Miami and hadn't been heard from again... -
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Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley
14 ratingsFearless Jones and Paris Minton, stars of the bestsellers Fearless Jones and Fear Itself, return in a high-velocity, larger-than-life thriller about family, betrayal, and revenge."I'm in trouble, Paris."Paris Minton has heard these words before. They mean only one thing: that his neck is on the line too. So when they are uttered by his lowlife cousin Ulysses S...Categorized as:
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Truth by Robin Wasserman
12 ratingsSome things are too painful to remember--and too deadly to forget.Found: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified.Lost: Everything.J.D. can't run from her past any longer. She knows the truth now: that she's dangerous, a weapon. If she can't learn to control her powers, there's no telling what...or who...she'll destroy next...Categorized as:
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City of Wind by Pierdomenico Baccalario
10 ratingsIn the third installment of the Century Quartet, Italian author P. D. Baccalario continues the mystery that will take four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve.PARIS, JUNE 20When new information turns up about the Star of Stone, the object they found in New York, Mistral, Elettra, Harvey, and Sheng meet again in Paris. Harvey brings the stone to show to his dad's archaeologist friend...Categorized as:
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Three by Cain: Serenade/Love's Lovely Counterfeit/The Butterfly by James M. Cain, Jeff Stone
6 ratingsAll three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity... -
Vanished by Dan Petrosini
6 ratingsObsession can be deadly.That's what Dom Stewart discovers when his buddy, Phil, goes missing. Dom has long coveted Robin, Phil's beautiful wife, ... is it time for him to step in?Detective Luca is also dazzled by Robin; even while acknowledging she may be involved in Phil's disappearance. Luca struggles with his heart as the investigation reveals the case is about much more than a missing man... -
The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow
18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). When Tim Kearney, a small-time criminal, slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he knows he’s pretty much a dead man... -
The Missing Nurse by Roger Silverwood
16 ratingsFor Inspector Michael Angel, the savage murder in an insane asylum twenty years ago marks the beginning of this gruesome trail of enquiries to find missing nurse Fiona Thomas. In spite of obstruction from the chief constable, this quirky Yorkshire policeman reduces the suspects to one, by resorting to an unusual and original strategy... -
Killer's Wedge by Ed McBain
12 ratingsHer game was death - and her name was Virginia Dodge. She was out to put a bullet through Steve Carella's brain, and she didn't care if she has to kill all the boys in the 87th Precinct to do it.So Virginia, armed with gun and bottle of nitroglycerin, spent a quiet afternoon in the precinct house, terrorizing Lieutenant Byrnes and his detectives with her clever little homemade bomb... -
Dragon of Seas by Pierdomenico Baccalario
10 ratingsIn the fourth installment of the Century Quartet, Italian author P. D. Baccalario concludes the mystery that took four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve.SHANGHAI, SEPTEMBER 19.As the equinox approaches, Sheng, Elettra, Harvey, and Mistral know they must come together one last time...Categorized as:
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King of Swords by Nick Stone
8 ratingsSuch was the acclaim that greeted Nick Stone's amazing debut novel, Mr Clarinet, that a curious syndrome soon developed: if you hadn't read the novel (and claimed to have any interest in the crime genre), you had to say (to all who would listen) 'I really must read Mr Clarinet -- I've heard so much about it!' (preferably said with a pronounced guilty note in the voice)... -
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Dead Souls by Elsebeth Egholm
6 ratingsOn All Hallows' Eve, ex-convict Peter Boutrup is visiting his best friend's grave when her estranged mother appears. Her son, Magnus, has disappeared, and she begs Peter to look for him.The next day a young nun is pulled out of the moat at the convent in Djursland. She has been garrotted and Peter, who works there as a carpenter, was the last person to see her alive... -
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Stick by Elmore Leonard
16 ratings“A little beauty of a story….A hot, fast read with pungent characters.” —Los Angeles Times“A slam-bang, no-bull action thriller…and nobody but nobody writes better dialogue... -
Falling Glass by Adrian McKinty, Gerard Doyle
14 ratingsRichard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest... -
Shame the Devil by George Pelecanos
14 ratingsA robbery goes wrong, workers are shot, the gunman's brother is killed by police and a boy is run over in the getaway. Now the heat has died down, the gunman is determined to avenge his lost brother by killing everyone involved in his death... -
Detroit Christmas by Larry Correia
10 ratingsDetroit. One of the greatest cities in the world. The crossroads of industry and commerce. The American Paris, the City of Champions, Blimp-Town, Motor City, call it what you want, it’s one crowded place. Nearly two million people live in Detroit, but as far as Jake Sullivan was aware, only a few of them were trying to kill him at that particular moment in time...Categorized as:
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Meteor Menace by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
8 ratingsAntofagasta, Chile...Rae Stanley was in trouble... -
I'll Bury My Dead by James Hadley Chase
8 ratingsThis is a personal matter. Someone killed my brother. I don't like that. If the police can't take care of it, then I'll bury my own dead.Nick English meant every word, but his efforts to find his brother's killer started a chain reaction of murder and violence that would nearly end his own life.Here is a story of organized blackmail punctuated by sudden and gruesome murder... -
Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
6 ratingsWHO IS DOC SAVAGE?To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adventurers - the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group - he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil-doers... -
The Desert Demons by Kenneth Robeson, Will Murray
6 ratingsBack after 20 years! Doc Savage and his mighty crew return in a brand-new series of nightmare exploits that can only be called…. The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage!Ferocious blood-red Things begin dropping down from the sky, the state of California is besieged by the Desert Demons—a phenomenon so fierce that it triggers a modern exodus...Categorized as:
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Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by G.M. Ford, Patrick Lawlor
14 ratingsWhen an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, without the sense God gave a gopher... -
Ormstenens gåta by Jason Goodwin
14 ratingsDetective, polyglot, chef, eunuch---Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar Award-winning series set in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman Empire... -
The Land of Terror: Doc Savage by Kenneth Robeson
10 ratingsA vile greenish vapor was all that remained of the first victim of the monstrous Smoke of Eternity. There would be thousands more if Kar, master fiend, had his evil way. Only Doc Savage and his mighty five could stop him. But the corpse-laden trail led to mortal combat with the fiercest killing machines ever invented by nature...Categorized as:
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Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
6 ratingsDeath comes from both above and below, as the Pacific Northwest is shaken by earthquakes while strange floating figures fill the sky striking terror with their deadly dirge... -
Standard Hollywood Depravity by Adam Christopher
6 ratingsThe moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about.Honey.As the band shook the hair out of their British faces, stomping and strumming, the go-go dancer’s cage swung, and the events of that otherwise average night were set in motion... -
The Steel Spring by Per Wahlöö
6 ratingsChief Inspector Jensen is a policeman in an unnamed European country where the government has criminalized being drunk, where newspapers are designed for reassurance, and where the city centers have been demolished to devote more space to gleaming new highways... -
The Dead Man's Brother by Roger Zelazny
6 ratingsTHE CORPSE UNDER THE CHAGALL Once an art smuggler, now a respectable art dealer, Ovid Wiley awoke to find his former partner stabbed to death on his gallery floor. That was strange enough – but when a CIA agent showed up to spring him from NYPD custody, things got a lot stranger... -
No Score by Lawrence Block
6 ratingsIn this sinfully silly coming-of-age adventure, a young orphan works a series of very odd jobs, attempting to make his fortune and lose his virginity in one fell swoop Chip Harrison thought he was normal until his parents blew their brains out. An orphan at seventeen, he is cast out of his prep school with nothing in his pocket but $27...
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