Hard Case Crime imprint: 76 books

THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE –  THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME Hospitalized after a liaison with another man’s wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul’s...

DEALING… PRODUCING…     ALL IN A DAY’S WORK FOR A DRUGLORD.         OR IN HOLLYWOOD. Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the  biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain...

THE FIRST NOVEL FROM *THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH *TRILOGY! THIS INSTALLMENT IS SET IN 1931 IN THE STYLE OF CLASSIC CRIME WRITER, GEORGES SIMENON. 1931 - The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man's beautiful daughter - and to her hot-tempered husband.

THE SECOND NOVEL FROM THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH TRILOGY  THIS SECOND INSTALLMENT IS SET IN 1941 IN THE STYLE OF CLASSIC CRIME WRITER, RAYMOND CHANDLER.

THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH TRILOGY! THIS INSTALLMENT IS SET IN 1951 IN THE STYLE OF CLASSIC CRIME WRITER, JIM THOMPSON.

SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY Mavis St. Paul had been a rich man’s mistress. Now she was a corpse. And every cop in New York City was hunting for the two-bit punk accused of putting a knife in her. But the punk was innocent.  He’d been set up to take the fall by some cutie who was too clever by half.  My job? Find that cutie – before the cutie found me.

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray woke up in the hospital a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get bad... From the incomparable Donald E. Westlake comes a devastating story of betrayal and revenge, exploring...

BUT SERIOUSLY, FOLKS. The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go.  Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless...

SOMETIMES WINNING FEELS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE LOSING. Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie...

WARNING! THIS MAY BE THE MOST SHOCKING BOOK YOU EVER READ! Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer and Angela’s back in Ireland, hooking up with a would-be...

5 [IMPORTANT / VALUABLE] LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST: 1) When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a psychopath. 2) Don’t use Drano to get rid of a dead body. 3) Those locks on hotel room doors?  Not very secure. 4) A curly blond wig isn’t much of a disguise. 5) Secrets can kill.

The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay. NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES! The longest-running...

BECAUSE HOMICIDE  BEGINS AT HOME  Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use...

QUARRY'S BACK – FOR HIS TOUGHEST JOB EVER. The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement.  But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment.  The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry...