Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Private Eye Bestselling Mysteries Bundle contains three full length private detective novels: Dead in the Rose City, Murder in Honolulu, and Dead in Pukalani, plus a bonus short story, The Wrong End of a Gun. Dead in the Rose City (A Dean Drake Mystery) In this hard-boiled detective...

From award-winning literary criminologist and bestselling crime novelist R. Barri Flowers, author of the acclaimed Dean Drake hard-boiled mystery Dead in the Rose City, comes the much-anticipated sequel, Alive in the Rose City (Dean Drake Mysteries Book 2). Dean Jeremy Drake, a six-five, biracial...

From the coauthor of the “excellent” Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries: Everything goes to the dogs when Inspector Heimrich must solve a veterinarian’s murder (The New Yorker). Inspector M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but...

When They Come for Your Family, Sometimes All Your Choices are Bad Rogue cop Frank Parker is under siege. His partner‘s been murdered, his wife is leaving, taking his daughter with her, and he’s staring into the abyss of unemployment. When his family is doxed to a vicious street gang bent...

• 4th in the award-winning Rick Cahill series • Anthony Award-winning and Shamus, Macavity, and Lefty Award-nominated author • Author has been compared to Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, and Dashiell Hammett • The Rick Cahill series is in the style of Robert Crais, T. Jefferson Parker, and...

Shell Scott finds himself pressed up against seductive women in deadly situations like no other hard-boiled L.A. sleuth. This collection of five adventures delivers all the action and excitement Shell Scott readers know to anticipate. Follow him through entanglements with Hollywood killers, murderous...

A classic entry in Chester Himes’s trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, Cotton Comes to Harlem is one of his hardest-hitting and most entertaining thrillers.   Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working the scam of a...

Alex Bledsoe's first novel, The Sword-Edged Blonde, drew rave reviews for its ingenious blend of fantasy and hard-boiled detective fiction. Now Bledsoe returns with an all-new tale of mean streets and medieval intrigue. Above Angelina's Tavern in down-and-dirty Neceda you'll find the office...

Alex Bledsoe's novels featuring detective Eddie LaCrosse have drawn rave reviews for their ingenious blend of classic fantasy and hard-boiled detective fiction. Now with Dark Jenny, Bledsoe returns with an all-new tale of intrigue and murder. . . . For twenty-five gold pieces a day, plus expenses,...

In 2007, Alex Bledsoe introduced the world to Eddie LaCrosse, the hard-boiled but soft-hearted detective known as a "sword jockey" who, for twenty-five gold pieces a day, plus expenses, will take on any case short of murder for hire. Like Philip Marlowe in shining armor or Sam Spade with...

She had to buy protection --- and her payment was her body. A hard-boiled crime novel by Ed Lacy.

A hard boiled detective mystery about a detective who thought he was the best, and the woman who fell in love with him.

A lurid, sexy, pulp detective and mystery tale by Ed Lacy.  Not to be missed by hard-boiled detective fans.

A hard boiled detective thriller by Dan Marlowe.  Dan Marlowe was allegedly involved with bank robber Albert Frederick Nussbaum and with murderer Bobby Randell Wilcoxson.