Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Turquoise Lament is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Funny thing about favors. Sometimes they come back to haunt you. And Travis McGee owes his friend a big one for saving his life...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, Pale Gray for Guilt is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee’s old football buddy Tush Bannon is resisting pressure to sell off his floundering motel and marina to a group of...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Dreadful Lemon Sky is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Around four in the morning, Travis McGee is jarred awake by a breathless ghost from his past: an old flame who needs a place to...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, Dress Her in Indigo is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. ** ** Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer even says please, McGee agrees to accompany him to Mexico...

The second novel in Mickey Spillane's classic detective series starring hard-boiled private eye Mike Hammer.  When a red-headed prostitue is killed in a hit-and-run "accident" Mike Hammer hunts down her killers and uncovers a powerful New York prostitution ring.

**HUNT FOR JUSTICE THRILLER SERIES: Books 1-3 Boxed Set ** “Intricate and Ingenious. Make some coffee. You’ll read all night.” —Lee Child Licensed to Thrill 3 contains the first 3 Hunt for Justice thrillers from USA Today and New York Times Bestselling Author Diane Capri More than...

#1 Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Presents Licensed to Thrill! For fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, Jack Reacher and Michael Connelly Suspenseful Thrillers with More Justice, Less System So many books, so little time, right? Which ones will you love? Open this collection...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Green Ripper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee has known his share of beautiful girls, but true love always passed him by—until Gretel. Life aboard the Busted Flush...

Edgar Award nominee and bestselling author Lisa Turner’s hard-boiled Detective Billy Able returns in this dark Southern mystery about the murder of a dazzling Memphis socialite—and the scandals revealed in the wake of her death The heart can be an assassin. Detective Billy Able knows that...

In The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining...

Tom Tanner, the crime-scene-cleaning virtuoso of L.A. Rotten—hailed by Dianne Emley as “eloquent, profound, hilarious, and redemptive”—is going Hollywood. Because a psychopathic movie producer is planning a bloody blockbuster . . . with Tom in a starring role. * * Tom Tanner has a dark past...

**Savannah, Georgia used to be a tranquil tourist destination—until human body parts started floating down the river. "A gritty nightmare of a tale that will churn the stomachs of even the most hard-boiled of FBI agents…"–Tome Tender Book Blog** Remnantsis perfect for...

Skip tracer Henry Swann cares little about anything but money, so when a beautiful Upper East Side woman shows up in his office and hires him to find her missing husband, he smiles and takes the cash. But when this seemingly simple missing-person case turns into homicide, Swann finds himself trapped...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she’s dead, and Travis McGee finds...