Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

In this epic showdown from "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane), police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage.

The Bond That Never Was Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up – about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong...

From one of Sweden’s most successful defense lawyers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm’s underworld, told from the perspective of the mob bosses, the patsies, and the thugs who help operate its twisted justice system.   JW is a student having trouble keeping up appearances in the rich party...

Gordon Pearce is a nice enough sort of guy. Just as long as you don't get on his wrong side. One evening while he's taking his dog for a stroll, a double-crossing ex-girlfriend turns up out of the blue with a couple of scruffy toddlers and a tall tale involving loan sharks, death threats...

Desperate men with nothing to lose make one last demand. Get Peter Bragg. SPEAK FOR THE DEAD The Shamus Award-nominated fifth novel in Jack Lynch’s Edgar-Award-nominated series of detective novels. An escape attempt at San Quentin goes to hell, a guard is beaten into a coma, and the hard-core...

The First Three Full-Length Books in a Bestselling, Award-Winning Mystery Series DEAD WOOD (John Rockne Mystery #1) In the exclusive enclave of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a woman who builds custom guitars is murdered. A disgraced ex-cop turned private investigator is hired by the dead woman's...

IN BOOK 4 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES London. Paris. Guantanamo Bay. Donna Stone is looking for love -- and terrorists -- in all the wrong places. In this fourth full-length novel of The Housewife Assassin series, Donna Stone finds out that breaking up is hard to do. Then...

“Next to Sam Hunter, Dirty Harry looks like Mother Theresa.”—New York Daily News Los Angeles private eye Sam Hunter doesn’t have a soft side. Everything about him is a hard as a knuckle to the face. So, when a call for help comes in from a trashy porn magazine, it’s not out of the...

Johnny Amsterdam, Manhattan’s toughest private dick, takes it hard when his favorite nightclub chanteuse books a playdate with murder.   When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From...

Receiving ten grand as down payment on a hit isn't that much of a surprise to Carlos Morales. After all, arranging contract killings is his business. But he never expected that someone might want his mother dead! What's equally troubling is the fact that the anonymous package arrived addressed to...

We have watched Bobby Turner mature over the years. Although he has stayed true to his art and remained a loyal friend ready to back up the ones that called themselves his friend. He is still haunted by the fact that his struggle has remained a tough one more riddled with hard times then successful limo...

On a cross-country trip to California, two young women take an unscheduled detour into the Arizona badlands. Nothing has been heard from Jay and Nicole since. It's only been three days, and the cops aren't worried, but Jameson Walker is. He hires Joe Hunter to find his daughter, Jay, and bring...

In Dreamcast a young art-student in college, Travis, has a nightmare about the murder of an ex-girlfriend. The next day, to his horror, he discovers that the dream was all too true. When, during the police interview, he naively confesses the dream, he is arrested for having exact knowledge of the...

2018 Spur Award Winner for Best First Novel from the Western Writers of America 2018 Spur Award Winner for Best Contemporary Western Selected by True West Magazine as THE BEST WESTERN CRIME NOVEL OF 2017 "Banks' strong noir debut will remind many of early Joe Lansdale. Smart...