Brash Books: 94 books

The third novel in the thrilling Shamus Award-winning, Agatha & Anthony Award nominated series. An expert falconer is shot in the back in the wilds of West Virginia. The police believe he was the victim of a hunting accident but PI Frank Pavlicek, a falconer himself, isn’t buying the...

"The feisty West is considered one of the first of the modern women PIs and also one of the grittiest," Los Angeles Times Before Kinsey Millhone, Sharon McCone and V.I. Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the sensitive, gutsy and resourceful private eye who shattered the boundaries...

“Tough, hip, visceral and lusty.” – Kirkus Reviews  Someone is killing illegal, Hispanic immigrants and leaving their bodies strewn like trash across Orange County, the playground of Southern California’s rich and privileged. But the murders go largely unnoticed, the anonymous, “Juan...

NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD Terry Traven is an L. A. private eye who modeled himself after Philip Marlowe and thrived in the 1960s, becoming a minor celebrity for his hardboiled style and his skill at tracking down runaways. But now it’s the 1980s, his minor fame has completely faded,...

Sex, Thugs, and Rock-n-Roll The wild, daring, sexy and outrageously original crime novel from Macavity Award winner and two-time Anthony Award nominee Craig Faustus Buck. Nob Brown is a divorced, disillusioned thirty-something ex-cop turned bottom-feeding tabloid writer. His best friend...

The Stewardess with a License to Kill is Back! Katy Touchfeather is a fun-loving, British spy with a cheeky attitude and lethal skills who travels the world as a stewardess. Her latest assignment is to bring down what appears to be a gold smuggling operation...but is something far worse. It's...

SLEEPING DOG is ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED CRIME NOVELS EVER. A New York Times Book of the Year, A Nero Wolfe Award Winner An Edgar Award Finalist, A Shamus Award Finalist and an Anthony Award Finalist Named by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries...

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...

“Her prose flows like molten silver.” Cleveland Plain Dealer  “An ambitious, compelling thriller.” San Francisco Chronicle  Bestselling true crime writer Garner Quinn is drawn into a murder investigation when enigmatic artist Dane Blackmoor, a man with whom she shares a complicated...

"Tough, authentic, and right on the money." - Robert B. Parker  A LONG REACH  The Denver Streets Belong to Streeter  Bounty hunter Streeter is a string of ex’s… ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, ex-bouncer, and a four-time ex-husband … who excels at exacting justice… with explosive...

THE LONG-LOST EIGHTH AND FINAL NOVEL IN THE MULTIPLE SHAMUS AND EDGAR AWARD NOMINATED BRAGG SERIES. A psychic Peter Bragg once saved from suicide has seen her future… death at the hands of a serial killer… and turns to Bragg to save her life again. As one corpse after another is unearthed...

The fourth, ground-breaking mystery featuring African-American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche White by Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award winning Author Barbara Neely Blanche White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer to help her best friend with her catering business. It’s...

Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp straps on his six-shooter to battle a new breed of bad man in a new land -- rising gangster Al Capone and his machine-gun toting killers on the streets of New York City. It’s the 1920s, the glittering jazz age, and the beginning of the blood-soaked prohibition-era....

From Maxine O’Callaghan, Shamus Award nominee and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America...now for the first time ever in a single volume… the daring short stories and the two bold novels that introduced the world to Delilah West, the female PI who...