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Author
Publisher
Lawrence Block
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The basis of the recent film starring Liam Neeson, A Walk Among the Tombstones is Matthew Scudder's tenth appearance. He's hired by a drug dealer whose wife has been savagely murdered, and Scudder's pursuit of the faceless killers leads him on a chase through Manhattan and Brooklyn, with an unforgettable denouement in Green-Wood Cemetery. TJ, Scudder's streetwise young friend, is on hand, and Scudder's girlfriend Elaine plays a vital role, even as...
2) Sign wave
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a calculating predator threatens his loved ones, mercenary soldier Dell attempts to track down a killer who possesses an uncanny talent for disguise.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew--a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with an ulcerated gut. Michel, known for his kindly interest in the disadvantaged, hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them....
Author
Series
Gus Murphy novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy returns to prowl the meaner streets of Long Island's darkest precincts with a Russian mercenary at his back in the stunning second installment of Reed Farrel Coleman's critically acclaimed series. Gus Murphy and his girlfriend, Magdalena, are put in harm's way when Gus is caught up in the distant aftershocks of heinous crimes committed decades ago in Vietnam and Russia. Gus's ex-priest pal, Bill Kilkenny, introduces...
5) Perfidia
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a post-Pearl Harbor murder of a Japanese family that entangles a brilliant Japanese-American forensic chemist, an adventurous woman, a future police chief and an arch villain.
Author
Series
Angel City novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eddie Vegas made a terrible mistake. Now he has to pay the price. After a botched debt collection turned double murder, Eddie splits, desperate to avoid his employer, notorious L.A. crime boss Saul Benedict, and his men (and Eddie's ex-partners), Floyd and Sawyer, as well as the police. Soon he becomes entangled with the clever and beautiful Dakota, a Native American woman fresh in the City of Angels to find her missing friend--someone Eddie might...
Author
Publisher
Mark Connolly
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Prophet's way or else. From keeping sweet,"blessing" the young girls and celestial marriages.The secrets of the religious cult and the death of adeputy sheriff are linked to the players in Congress.One girl is at the center of money, death and lust."Unsettling fiction with bits of truth, great book."DLF Review"Fiction using real life truths fromthe twisted world of cult Christians."Reviews By EdgarEd gets a mysterious call to meet a nervouswoman...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL. Ed Rogan, tough as nails and twice as sharp, is a private investigator of malfeasance in the corporate world. The enigmatic case he's working on in A MURDER TOO PERSONAL takes on a very personal aspect when he searches for the murderer of his ex-wife. Someone has put a bullet in the back of her head and Rogan is driven by the twin demons of guilt and revenge to find her killer. His quest leads him through the netherworld...
Author
Publisher
L.L. Bartlett
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
If it weren't for bad luck, Jeff Resnick would have no luck at all!While riding his new racing bike, Jeff is hit by an SUV, an accident which has a cascade effect on his life. He loses his job to a replacement, his girlfriend pressures him to move in, his bank accounts are hacked, and a restless spirit begs for his help-all in less than a week. But it's soon apparent that his so-called random accident is anything but, and the murder of a close friend...
10) Stab in the Dark
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Block
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In his fourth appearance, Matthew Scudder deals as an unlicensed private investigator with a case from his own past as a cop. A serial killer has confessed to the murder of seven woman, but insists he had nothing to do with the death of an eighth victim. The dead woman's father hires Scudder to investigate, and the facts he uncovers tend to confirm the killer's claim of innocence. This tells him a new killer purposely copied earlier crimes-which...
11) Dead Sand
Author
Publisher
Brendan DuBois
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Introducing his famed series character, Lewis Cole, DEAD SAND by Brendan DuBois tells the tale of the mysterious murder of a teenage waitress at at beach resort in New Hampshire. Lewis Cole, a retired research analyst from the Department of Defense and a magazine columnist, travels down some mean streets indeed as he puzzles out not only the teenage girl's murder, but his own place in life after nearly being killed while working for the DoD.This work...
12) Stay Another Day
Author
Publisher
Oldcastle Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For seven years, ex-cop Nick Sharman has lived in 'exile' on a Caribbean island with no UK extradition treaty-his life of luxury funded by the proceeds of a bank robbery where he was the last man standing. Then a phone call out of the blue from London changes everything. The voice from the past belongs to the only woman that he loves, his daughter Judith. Like father, like daughter, she's a police officer, but the family resemblance doesn't stop there-Judith...
13) Dydeetown World
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A novel of the LaNague Federation - Book 4. Welcome to the future... Where the cream of humanity has left for the outworlds, leaving the rest behind... Where genetically redesigned T. rexes have supplanted pit bulls... Where population control measures have created an underclass of Urchins, unlicensed children who have no rights - not even the right to exist... Where wireheads with chips in their brains live vicariously through the downloaded...
14) Walk The Boards
Author
Publisher
Mark Connolly
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A sleepy Jersey shore town becomes the backdrop forgreed, payoffs and murder. While tourists flock to the beaches lives are being ruined. The Chief of Police is ensnared with the kidnapping of a little girl and is ready to break the law to get her back while trying to prevent the assassination of the Mayor."Smell the salt air and taste the taffy while thebad guys wearing suits reach for your money.The locals are slicker than you'll ever be."DLF Review....
Author
Publisher
WMG Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Over sixty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.In this twenty-fourth monthly volume the full novel Bad Beat: A Cold Poker Gang Novel, plus four short stories, and an ongoing serial novel. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press, Inc.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Marks the long-awaited arrival-in English-of a masterful voice in Mexican and noir fiction Death in Veracruz is a gritty and atmospheric noir centered on the so-called oil wars of the late 1970s, which pitted the extremely powerful and corrupt government-owned oil cartel against the agrarian landowners in the Tabasco region of Southern Mexico. This novel, translated for the first time in English since its publication 30 years ago, concerns a journalist...
Author
Publisher
Flying Raven Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Nearly a year has passed since Garrison Gage became the reluctant guardian of a troubled teenage girl, but neither fatherhood nor the the intervening months has improved his mood. His right knee is still mostly worthless. He still prefers to drink his bourbon alone. And even with a certain blonde bombshell a persistent part of his life, he still can't be bothered to buy a cell phone. Or any phone, for that matter. Why? Then somebody might call him.But...
18) Cross Out
Author
Publisher
Mark Connolly
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Chicago Detectives Marsh and Grewecskirace the clock to stop the increasing numberof married women being murdered. Making itworse, the summer is filling up the beacheswhile someone is trying to thin out the crowdwith bullets.Terrific story !Edgy, nervous, scarey!DLF Review. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
John Barlow
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"John Ray, the son of crime boss Antonio 'Tony' Ray, is the straight one of the family. With a successful business and a lifestyle to match, he wants nothing to do with his father's criminal world. But what does that world want with him? A young prostitute is found dead in John's car, and Freddy Metcalfe, his best friend and employee, is framed for her death. Freddy denies everything but it's an open and shut case: he's going down for murder. John...
20) Day In, Day Out
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press, Inc.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A drunken confession. Years dissolve in a blur of sex, drugs, and violence. With echoes of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Hector Aguilar CamIn's Day In, Day Out explores the lives of two darkly alluring sisters and the men pulled into their orbit. While attending the funeral of an old acquaintance, dissolute writer Serrano runs into a former rival, a doctor of criminology known simply as el Pato. The encounter throws Serrano back to the erotically...
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