Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed. From the back cover of the 1953 edition: Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely spot on Montreal’s famous mountain, and a bu

CHICAGO: The Windy City. Art and Architecture. Cronyism and Political Maneuvering. From the lake shore’s scenic drive to expressways diverged east, west and south. A cavernous horizon. Spiraled asphalt slithers a cosmopolitan jungle. Cold. Breathing. Unforgiving. Cahokia (KUH...

In his most dangerous and personal case yet, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger teams up with a Hong Kong detective in a frantic effort to locate a woman who has been marked for murder. Author of over twenty hard-edged thrillers, R.J. Jagger is a trial attorney who lives in Colorado....

Andy North and Ellie Tonbridge are back in their 6th crime novel. This time they are investigating the practice of sex for rent - where students and others pay their rent by sexual favors to their landlords. But what happens if that practice is abused. This is what Andy and Ellie discover when they...

This is the third novel in the Andy North Crime Series. A fifteen-year old girl is found naked and face down in a river in Marshland Woods; an obese Carer is discovered shot in a cheap motel; an deaf old lady is shot dead in her own home; and all these deaths can to be connected to another fifteen-year...

Child, truck, doll written in blood were the only clues Frank Martini, a retired Seattle homicide detective and now successful PI, had to go on. How was he to make sense of a jogger’s murder and the kidnapping of a 3-year-old girl? Frank would soon learn the little girl was his niece, Holly. Additional...

This short story introduces the reader to Rider Bradbury. Rider has a lot of interests, reading, martial arts and Asian women...not always in that order. Take a trip to the AppleJack Saigon bar and find out if Rider has met his match. If you like police chases,serial killers and tough kick-butt characters-then...

The town of Ford is quickly becoming the main junction in the trafficking of illegal liquor. The town of Ford — the Border Cities’ knot of factories, machine shops, and depots wedged between respectable Walkerville and residential Riverside — is quickly becoming the main junction in the...

A financial advisor with a gambling problem. His sexaholic best friend. And one very attractive and very bored young woman. When they all meet it turns into a vicious game of cat and mouse—but who’s the cat and who’s the mouse? Leaving behind their quiet suburbs, Felix and his...

For ex-con and pool cleaning man Jess Forsyth, life is a California rhythm of surf, work, tacos, and drink. He’s gone straight, and he’s happy with that…sort of. When he runs into an old pal, Jess finds himself taking money (and pride) from a well-heeled drug dealer. But things get twisted....

The third of Simon Fellowes' Hollywood trilogy - after 'Don't Breathe the Air', and 'My Name is Ferdinand' - '10 Dead Mexicans' is a hard-hitting examination of contemporary America. Private Investigator, Boyd Avery, a man running from his past and unsure where...

WHEN BEAUTIFUL, JADED ATTORNEY RUBY RANDOLPH IS ARRESTED FOR KILLING HER SNAKE OF A LAWYER HUSBAND, NOBODY BLAMES HER—EXCEPT THE COP WHO LOVES HER. Ruby Randolph is a street-smart lawyer with a dark past who finally makes it big, but she’s snared in an abusive marriage. Privilege has its...

All three full-length and top-selling Sarcastic crime novels! Boxed set includes: DEATH BY SARCASM (Mary Cooper Mystery #1) MURDER WITH SARCASTIC INTENT (Mary Cooper Mystery #2) GROSS SARCASTIC HOMICIDE (Mary Cooper Mystery #3) "Packed to the gills with hard-hitting action and...

What does it take to push one man over the edge? And what does that man discover about himself when he is squeezed right up against that point, right to the very brink? Johnny Finn is a hard-nosed south Florida detective investigating drug smuggling and local gang activity. One harrowing night when...