Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Véhicule Press launches its Ricochet Series of vintage mysteries with The Crime on Cotes des Neiges—a hardboiled detective novel set in Montreal originally published in 1951. At the centre of this novel, and two others by David Montrose, is the hard-drinking, hard-working private dick, Russell...

I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction. One Last Night at...

Some say he’s a serial killer. Others say he’s a vigilante doing what police can’t or won’t do. What’s certain is that Dean Drayhart, a paraplegic, will soon sit on death row for killing hit-and-run-drivers in Los Angeles. But not if the Mexican Mafia gets hold of him and those he loves...

The Fourth Andy North Crime Novel by the brilliant S.D. Gripton -a little longer than the 50,000 words it should be-sends Andy and his indomitable Detective Sergeant Ellie Tonbridge on more hard-bitten adventures, including a pimp who sells young boys bodies - a false priest who is nothing more than...

Reggie Levine, ex-boxer turned bouncer, and hapless hero, has barely recovered from his ordeal in Damn Dirty Apes, when he is called back to action. Recruited to retrieve a Chinese crested terrier from a fleapit roadside zoo, where the ugly effing showdog has been mistaken for the chupacabra, Reggie...

Landscaper Billy Byrum has a money problem. Author Dennis Tinker has a writing problem. Neither man thinks he's doing wrong by others – until things spin out of control. Billy's brother ends up dead and Dennis's wife thinks he has a fan turned stalker. Both situations end up in Rafe's lap. The question...

In the bloody aftermath of Suicide Lounge, Selena is lying low and putting her life back together. When the freedom she has fought hard to secure is threatened, Selena is forced to take on a new enemy—an elusive young man who holds her fate in hand, a man with connections to the nastiest criminals...

Collected together here are the second 3 stories in the Detective Jimmy Delaney series:The Scent of the CrimeDetective Jimmy Delaney finds himself involved in yet another murder. He knows something smells in Barnstow, but can he use that to find the killer?Killing Them SoftlyIn a strange series of...

Zehn Tausend Pfund Anzahlung auf einen Auftragsmord sind für Carlos Morales keine wirkliche Überraschung. Auftragsmord ist schließlich sein Handwerk. Doch mit dem Mord seiner Mutter beauftragt zu werden, damit hat er nicht gerechnet. Ebenso beunruhigend ist die Tatsache,...

It’s 1981 in Fort Myers, Florida. Scotland Ross hasn’t given up drinking, but he has sworn off of trouble. At a waterside tavern the day the Pope got shot, Scotland drank to cloud the memories of his dead infant son on an anniversary such as this. Distraction comes when the bar owner needs...

Winnie doesn't remember the last time she felt anything below her neck. Her spine is severed at the seventh vertebrae, but thanks to implants from a sabotaged biomedical start-up, she has regained mobility. She is a prototype: a living, breathing-walking-demonstration of revolutionary technology that...

Come along on this roll-coaster of a hard-boil crime mystery. Sal A. Price is an average American, with a kind heart, and a huge curiosity to solve mysteries within his town of Duluth, Minnesota. Especially, when those mysteries take place within his own neighborhood. Peer into the the lives, emotions,...

Colonel Cody Watson spent his life in service to his country, both military and paramilitary and now at age 50 he was ready to retire to his cabin in Wyoming. Unfortunately, his best laid plans are set aside when his commander, and best friend General Hard Head Washington, is ruthlessly murdered in...

Gentrification is moving in hard and fast in Montreal’s South-Western districts. D’Arcy Kennedy finds himself out of breath, out of a job and raising a kid in a small home meant for another era. As the bulldozers take away entire chapters of his life, he turns to old acquaintances for work,...