Brash Books: 94 books

In the early 1980s, the mysterious A.W. Mykel came out of nowhere with a brilliantly inventive espionage thriller that became an international bestseller…astonishing readers with its daringly imaginative plot, larger-than-life characters, and outstanding action…becoming one of the most entertaining...

The powerful sequel to Outrage at Blanco, Edgar & Shamus Award nominee Bill Crider’s startlingly original western crime novel Six months ago, Ellie was a newlywed, working the dry land in 1880s Texas. Then the desperados came. They raped her and killed her husband, leaving her for dead....

The fourth novel featuring Wyatt Storme, the ex-football player turned troubleshooter that critics are hailing as the long-awaited heir to Travis McGee and Spenser “Storme is one of my all-time favorite series characters, up there with Spenser and Dave Robicheaux,” Ace Atkins, the New York...

When you dig your own grave it always ends up ragged and shallow. Career criminal Longview Moody, on the run from killers, assumes his dead, twin brother's identity as the new Chief of Police of a Texas town that's being terrorized by a Mexican drug cartel. To pull off the deadly deception,...

“Robert Ludlum with a sense of humor,” Detroit News  One of the Most Acclaimed Espionage Novels Ever Written… And Also One of the Funniest.  It’s the mid-1980s and the cold war hasn’t thawed. The Library, a super-secret U.S. espionage agency is keeping an eye on the Russians...

Crider’s prose slices through conventions and expectations,” –Booklist OUTRAGE AT BLANCO It’s True Grit meets Gran Torino in a blazingly original crime novel from Bill Crider, an Edgar and Shamus finalist and a two-time winner of the Anthony Award On a bloody day in 1887,...

**“Simply tremendous! Tom Kakonis’s writing is on a level with Elmore Leonard.” Chicago Tribune ** CRISS CROSS It’s a bone-chilling winter in Grand Rapids. Ex-cop Mitch Morse is stuck in a dreary, dead-end job at a discount store so he can’t resist when a smoldering, sexy...

The brilliant sequel to Road to Perdition, Max Allan Collins’ masterpiece of crime fiction that became both a literary and cinematic classic. Twenty-two year-old Michael O’Sullivan returns from the second World War with a medal of honor, a glass eye, and the violent skills necessary to...

A young co-ed is raped by a country music legend in Branson, the “NashVegas” of Missouri. Ignored by the police, she turns to TV newswoman Sandy Collingsworth for help. Sandy’s investigation stirs up a hornet’s nest of corruption and crime, putting her in the mob’s crosshairs …something...

**If you love Jack Reacher... it's time you met The Preacher, the one-eyed, ex-priest and Vietnam vet turned professional gambler who wanders the country seeking redemption ** The Preacher is playing the highest stakes poker game ever dealt. His opponents are mobsters, arms dealers and terrorists....

"A tangy tale of murder, gang warfare, crack cocaine, and barbecue,” Entertainment Weekly It’s May in Memphis, and four bloody murders occur on the eve of the International BBQ Contest and the Cotton Carnival: a conventioneer is stabbed at an ATM machine, a gang leader and his girlfriend...

The first novel in W.L. Ripley's acclaimed Wyatt Storme series. Vietnam vet and former pro football player Wyatt Storme is bow-hunting in Missouri when he stumbles upon a hidden field of marijuana…and is attacked by a vicious dog and shot at by a sniper. He reports violent incident confidentially...

"Tough, authentic, and right on the money." - Robert B. Parker THE LOW END OF NOWHERE THE DENVER STREETS BELONG TO STREETER. Bounty hunter Streeter is a string of exes… ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, ex-bouncer, and four-time ex-husband … who excels at exacting his...

A Daring, Inventive New Crime Novel Wes buys a carwash in LA’s Koreatown and gets a young Korean wife he’s never met as part of the bargain. The catch? Her five previous husbands were murdered before the honeymoon. Now Wes has a ring on his finger and a target on his back…and is caught...