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  • Big Numbers reviews

    Big Numbers Book Reviews

    Jack Getze

    Who wants to kill Austin Carr? Everybody. After all, he's a stockbroker. About to be ingeniously murdered snatched off a private fishing yacht by a live, sixhundredpound gian...

  • Angel of Darkness reviews

    Angel of Darkness Book Reviews

    Steve N. Lee

    Do You Love Thrillers? Are you curious how a bestselling author creates a hero? Do you long to know how they develop their stories? Wonder how much is fiction and how much is reall...

  • The Gray and Guilty Sea reviews

    The Gray and Guilty Sea Book Reviews

    Scott William Carter

    "Carter's writing is on target." Publishers Weekly A curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they�...

  • Things Left Behind reviews

    Things Left Behind Book Reviews

    James Glass

    When Lieutenant Mark Wheeler of the South Carolina Police Department arrives at a possible murdersuicide, he realizes almost immediately things are amiss. The crime scene is brutal...

  • Wanted Man reviews

    Wanted Man Book Reviews

    Peter Menadue

    Third book in the Gary Maddox Series. When Sydney private investigator, Gary Maddox, is hired to recover a stolen painting, he plunges deep into the art world and finds himself bat...

  • Closure reviews

    Closure Book Reviews

    Randall Wood

    When a prominent lawyer is shot while waiting at a suburban stop sign it sets off a nationwide manhunt for an elusive killer. Special Agent Jack Randall of the FBI finds himself ap...

  • Murder on The Orient Express reviews

    Murder on The Orient Express Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie

    Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the ...

  • The Stiff in the Five Hundred Dollar Suit reviews

    The Stiff in the Five Hundred Dollar Suit Book Reviews

    Steve Matthew Benner

    During the mid1950’s, Chief Detective Harvey Halloway was assigned to a murder investigation involving the murder of a man dressed in an expensive suit and found stabbed to death o...

  • Vienna in Repose reviews

    Vienna in Repose Book Reviews

    Marcus Durden

    Vienna is in the grip of a crime wave and Agent Muller has been sent to tackle it; not just because of his talent at solving crimes but because his superiors see him as toxic to th...

  • Murder in D-Minor reviews

    Murder in D-Minor Book Reviews

    Manuela Cardiga

    A man with an ugly past is asked to do one last task to clear an old blood debt. But you can´t wash away blood with more blood; you can't bury the past, but it may just bury y...

  • Road to Rouen reviews

    Road to Rouen Book Reviews

    Jack Waddell

    It’s 1958 and the little county seat of Rouen is a long way from the gritty Los Angeles beat newspaper reporter Roy Cutter was working before he was fired. But he’s forced to retur...

  • Death of a Blood reviews

    Death of a Blood Book Reviews

    Karl Tutt

    This is the sixth installment of "The Ghostcatcher" series. T.K. Fleming is a retired English professor, a reluctant detective, and a boat bum. His lady, Sunny, is damned...

  • Step On A Crack reviews

    Step On A Crack Book Reviews

    David Edgerley Gates

    It’s said things come in threes, a run of good luck at cards, a run of bad luck in love. But the penny doesn’t always drop until the third time around. Come the third time, you sna...

  • Slow Fall reviews

    Slow Fall Book Reviews

    Edgar Williams

    Slow Fall is a mystery in The Wekiwa County series. Set in the preDisney torpor of rural central Florida, it tells the story of an exMiamicop who returns to his smalltown Florida h...

  • Loose Ends reviews

    Loose Ends Book Reviews

    D. D. Vandyke

    BOOK ONE of the California Corwin P.I. Mystery Series Contains the bonus story Off The Leash a California Corwin Short Story "This is a real page turner and hard to put down....

  • Smoke and Mirrors reviews

    Smoke and Mirrors Book Reviews

    Steve Marshall

    Tired of the same old police story? Enjoy a crime series from the criminal perspective. When you can't call the cops.....Call Trunk Dennis Trunk has a reputation for ...

  • The Heart of an Assassin reviews

    The Heart of an Assassin Book Reviews

    Tony Bertot

    A young boy growing up on the streets of New York City, Tyler is exposed to both the good and bad of urban life. His future is determined by his relationship with a stranger, a dri...

  • Till The Moon Falls reviews

    Till The Moon Falls Book Reviews

    Conrad Johnson

    John Oxman, a crusty ex merchant seaman, comes to the aid of a beautiful woman who has been drugged, violated and on the run after having bio engineered, nanotechnology implanted i...

  • Diabla Meets Big Ju Ju reviews

    Diabla Meets Big Ju Ju Book Reviews

    Karl Tutt

    Diabla Meets Big Ju Ju is the third in the Dee Rabow Mystery Series. Dee is a gutsy, tough female detective with more skeletons that one closet can hold. Murders seem to stalk her ...

  • Power in the Blood reviews

    Power in the Blood Book Reviews

    Michael Lister

    From New York Times Bestselling author Michael Lister  Newly Revised with an Introduction by Michael Connelly  Was it murder, accident, or suicide? A baffling cas...

  • Killing Schmidt Honorably reviews

    Killing Schmidt Honorably Book Reviews

    Vincent Alexandre

    Charlie Schmidt, a retired assassin, is returning home after completing a flight from Paris. In under fortyeight hours all hell will break loose for Charlie when he discovers his g...

  • Train to Anywhere reviews

    Train to Anywhere Book Reviews

    David George Howard

    Eddie Griffin, a 23yearold excon, is working to put his life back together. Late one evening he witnesses a local businessman committing a murder. His life is spared, but he will b...

  • That Nietzsche Thing reviews

    That Nietzsche Thing Book Reviews

    Christopher Blankley

    Who is Q? Not the dead girl. She's just another Gene Genie taken by her addiction – by a plague tearing the world apart. Who is Q? Not Sasha. He's a cop. Though, nowadays...

  • Hard Fall reviews

    Hard Fall Book Reviews

    Phil Reade

    An excop with a past. A case police couldn't solve. One chance at redemption... ExNew York detective Thomas Blume hunts the streets of London for the killers that tore his fam...

  • The Case of the Running Bag reviews

    The Case of the Running Bag Book Reviews

    Gene Poschman

    It Began with a Simple Accident, or was it an Attempted Murder? A femme fatale. Her missing husband. A dead private detective. And a dangerous game of mistaken identity... It all s...

  • Looking For Henry Turner reviews

    Looking For Henry Turner Book Reviews

    W.L. Liberman

    Toronto, 1960. Mo Gold and Arthur "Birdie" Birdwell are like fish out of water. Mo is Jewish and sardonic; Birdie's black, thoughtful and gargantuan. They're pr...

  • Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells reviews

    Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells Book Reviews

    Bruce Hammack

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…Rifle Shells? Blind private investigator Steve Smiley and his partner hear a rifle shot. Hordes of Christmas shoppers scatter. A famous biggame hunter dr...

  • Murder on Gold Street reviews

    Murder on Gold Street Book Reviews

    Rod Moore

    Murder On Gold Street Murder Mystery Short Stories Wealthy and successful financial planner James Firth from the wealthy suburb of Carlton turns up murdered in the tough streets of...

  • Sacrifice reviews

    Sacrifice Book Reviews

    Tim Svart

    A hidden scheme. Suspiciously pat answers. Can one untested leader navigate the thin line between professional and personal justice? Essen, Germany. Chief Inspector “Karre” Karrenb...

  • Exile reviews

    Exile Book Reviews

    Stuart Nealon

    Private detective Cid Steiner takes on a case to find a missing woman before finding himself embroiled in events far darker than Steiner could have initially anticipated.

  • Full Count reviews

    Full Count Book Reviews

    Michael R Helberg

    Jake Tanner, private detective and former U.S. Marine, is tough, smart, funny and lovable. What starts out as a missing person's case quickly turns into one with international...

  • Stealing Power reviews

    Stealing Power Book Reviews

    Bo Brennan

    Stealing women's power is easy ... restoring it is deadly. Detective Chief Inspector AJ Colt lives his life in the limelight. The charismatic star of New Scotland Yard is publ...

  • Mobster Gumbo reviews

    Mobster Gumbo Book Reviews

    Michael Polillo

    Edgar Rolfe is a private eye who is trying to drop a few pounds. Maybe the local mafia, the Corbucci family, can help him with a new fitness regimen when they hire him to sneak int...

  • Heads Up reviews

    Heads Up Book Reviews

    Shaun Tennant

    Five years ago, the police department was shattered when a psychotic hit man turned his rage against homicide detectives and their families. Now, the evidence suggests that the sam...

  • A Perfect Alibi reviews

    A Perfect Alibi Book Reviews

    Anne Baines

    The job looked like the same old story. Husband thinks wife is cheating, husband hires private investigator...  Until someone ends up dead. As a former police detective tu...

  • Death Wants Three reviews

    Death Wants Three Book Reviews

    Karl Tutt

    This is the highly anticipated sequel to DEATH TIMES TWO. T.K. and Sunny think they've dodged the bullet, but the notorious Boss Lady and her lieutenant are still free. They h...

  • Dhata Mays reviews

    Dhata Mays Book Reviews

    Greg Dragon

    In a war between man and machine, he must find a way to protect them all... After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the two have learned to coexist pe...

  • MAX PAYNE reviews

    MAX PAYNE Book Reviews

    Martin Matthews

    Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his back against t...

  • Dark City, Dark Magic reviews

    Dark City, Dark Magic Book Reviews

    Peter Tarkulich

    Henry Billingsly, brother of millionaire Frederick Billingsly, is found dead with a gun in his hand. The police are convinced it was suicide, but Frederick is unconvinced and has e...

  • On the Streets for Alison reviews

    On the Streets for Alison Book Reviews

    Paul Matos

    What line would you cross for a friend? Alison is missing. Sam, her brother comes to see his old friends, Raph and Mac, fearing the worse. After the search begins they find that th...

  • Angry Betty reviews

    Angry Betty Book Reviews

    Jamie Lee Scott

    A female cop, a dead body in the trunk of a car, and drug cartels in a small Texas town. Kate Darby learned to hate cops at an early age, thanks to her drug addicted mom. No one wo...

  • The Double Trouble Caper reviews

    The Double Trouble Caper Book Reviews

    R. Archer

    SAM HILL was a wisecracking hardboiled PI from 1950. He starred in his own comic, produced at the time by Archie Comics and Closeup Inc. (toothpaste). The character has since falle...

  • The Big Goodbye reviews

    The Big Goodbye Book Reviews

    Michael Lister

    A vulnerable woman being followed. A PI determined to protect her. Former lovers embroiled in an intense mystery thriller fraught with intrigue and danger. A sexy, romantic, suspen...

  • A Thousand Bayonets reviews

    A Thousand Bayonets Book Reviews

    Joel Mark Harris

    John Webster has seen the terrible things human beings can do. He's an experienced investigative journalist, recently returned from the war in Afghanistan. John saw hell over ...

  • The Moving Finger reviews

    The Moving Finger Book Reviews

    Edward Phillips Oppenheim

    A mystifying story dealing with a wealthy M. P'. s experiment with a poor young man. The tale pulsates with life and is truly startling in some of its revelations.

  • Zero Tolerance reviews

    Zero Tolerance Book Reviews

    J.J. Klein

    Former Navy SEAL and NCIS agent, Jim Slade is now living the good life in the Florida Keys as a private detective. His small firm of two employs himself and a very ambitious and eq...

  • Not Dead Yet reviews

    Not Dead Yet Book Reviews

    Peter Menadue

    The first book in the Gary Maddox Series: Sydney private investigator Gary Maddox scratches out a living doing personal injuries surveillance. A mother asks him to find out who kil...

  • Lonely Are The Dead reviews

    Lonely Are The Dead Book Reviews

    Paul Westwood

    The year is 1977. A remorseless serialkiller is stalking Bay City. The reason for the murders is unknown, but the dismembered victims are always young and beautiful. In order to fi...

  • The Second Bat Guano War reviews

    The Second Bat Guano War Book Reviews

    J.M. Porup

    From former Lonely Planet author J.M. Porup comes this gritty South American noir... Rats ate his baby daughter while he partied in a disco. Now Horace “Horse” Mann is a druggedout...

  • Death on Highway 13 reviews

    Death on Highway 13 Book Reviews

    Joe Vannicola

    A dead body is dumped early one morning on Highway 13 by two men. The deceased, Dave Lomas, was murdered by members of a motorcycle gang, The Skulls of Highway 13. He messed around...

  • Fly Paper Soup reviews

    Fly Paper Soup Book Reviews

    Cleve Sylcox

    Attorney David Winter kicks back on the Florida beach soaking in the sunshine and watching the ladies stroll by. When his old Army buddy, Sean asks him to defend his aunt in a murd...

  • Double Bluff reviews

    Double Bluff Book Reviews

    Gary Weston

    Plenty of blood, but no bodies. Detective Senior Sergeant Stanley Morris and his team have to piece the puzzle together and try to prevent a murder and The Ferret goes to prison. T...

  • Skin and Blond reviews

    Skin and Blond Book Reviews

    V. J. Chambers

    Dark. Raw. Gritty. Blond. from USA Today bestselling author V. J. Chambers Ever since blond detective Ivy Stern got herself kicked off the police force for “sexual conduct unbecomi...

  • Colored Waters reviews

    Colored Waters Book Reviews

    Brad Stratton

    Colored Waters, the first Michael Chamber's crime/mystery novel. Calloused and hardened as he has become, Michael has a difficult time watching the video someone is using to b...

  • Sleep While I Dance reviews

    Sleep While I Dance Book Reviews

    Mark Connolly

    She is out of jail, free to forget being accused of murdering her little girl. The media has some men wanting to marry her, some just want to be near her. Two peo...

  • Lucky Corpse reviews

    Lucky Corpse Book Reviews

    Ray FitzGerald

    The toast of 1942 Hollywood is the newly crowned Heavyweight Champ, Lucky Lawson. He's got it all, the belt, the babe, and a baffling crime scene in a seedy hotel. When the ch...

  • The Reluctant Detective reviews

    The Reluctant Detective Book Reviews

    Tom Fowler

    It’s C.T.’s first case. He wants an easy one. Instead, he gets Alice. C.T. Ferguson spent years as a hacker. He lived in Hong Kong, working against the Chinese government. Then the...

  • Forgotten Boy reviews

    Forgotten Boy Book Reviews

    Todd Luchik

    A missing girl. A reluctant hero stalked through the streets of Chicago. A country on the brink of war. It's February 2003 and private detective Glenn Wozniak just wants to ri...

  • Spaghetti Junction reviews

    Spaghetti Junction Book Reviews

    James Dargan

    SPAGHETTI JUNCTION,  A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOL. 1 It's two men against a world of criminality They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sanch...

  • Scar Tissue reviews

    Scar Tissue Book Reviews

    Mark Gummere

    Scar Tissue is the first novel in a projected series of detective/mysteries in the spirit of Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker. Robert “Lucky” Lucas, a fifty year old retired p...

Best Seller Paid Hard Boiled Books of 2023

  • Big Numbers reviews

    Big Numbers Book Reviews

    Jack Getze

    Who wants to kill Austin Carr? Everybody. After all, he's a stockbroker. About to be ingeniously murdered snatched off a private fishing yacht by a live, sixhundredpound gian...

  • Angel of Darkness reviews

    Angel of Darkness Book Reviews

    Steve N. Lee

    Do You Love Thrillers? Are you curious how a bestselling author creates a hero? Do you long to know how they develop their stories? Wonder how much is fiction and how much is reall...

  • The Gray and Guilty Sea reviews

    The Gray and Guilty Sea Book Reviews

    Scott William Carter

    "Carter's writing is on target." Publishers Weekly A curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they�...

  • Things Left Behind reviews

    Things Left Behind Book Reviews

    James Glass

    When Lieutenant Mark Wheeler of the South Carolina Police Department arrives at a possible murdersuicide, he realizes almost immediately things are amiss. The crime scene is brutal...

  • Wanted Man reviews

    Wanted Man Book Reviews

    Peter Menadue

    Third book in the Gary Maddox Series. When Sydney private investigator, Gary Maddox, is hired to recover a stolen painting, he plunges deep into the art world and finds himself bat...

  • Closure reviews

    Closure Book Reviews

    Randall Wood

    When a prominent lawyer is shot while waiting at a suburban stop sign it sets off a nationwide manhunt for an elusive killer. Special Agent Jack Randall of the FBI finds himself ap...

  • Murder on The Orient Express reviews

    Murder on The Orient Express Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie

    Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the ...

  • The Stiff in the Five Hundred Dollar Suit reviews

    The Stiff in the Five Hundred Dollar Suit Book Reviews

    Steve Matthew Benner

    During the mid1950’s, Chief Detective Harvey Halloway was assigned to a murder investigation involving the murder of a man dressed in an expensive suit and found stabbed to death o...

  • Vienna in Repose reviews

    Vienna in Repose Book Reviews

    Marcus Durden

    Vienna is in the grip of a crime wave and Agent Muller has been sent to tackle it; not just because of his talent at solving crimes but because his superiors see him as toxic to th...

  • Murder in D-Minor reviews

    Murder in D-Minor Book Reviews

    Manuela Cardiga

    A man with an ugly past is asked to do one last task to clear an old blood debt. But you can´t wash away blood with more blood; you can't bury the past, but it may just bury y...

  • Road to Rouen reviews

    Road to Rouen Book Reviews

    Jack Waddell

    It’s 1958 and the little county seat of Rouen is a long way from the gritty Los Angeles beat newspaper reporter Roy Cutter was working before he was fired. But he’s forced to retur...

  • Death of a Blood reviews

    Death of a Blood Book Reviews

    Karl Tutt

    This is the sixth installment of "The Ghostcatcher" series. T.K. Fleming is a retired English professor, a reluctant detective, and a boat bum. His lady, Sunny, is damned...

  • Step On A Crack reviews

    Step On A Crack Book Reviews

    David Edgerley Gates

    It’s said things come in threes, a run of good luck at cards, a run of bad luck in love. But the penny doesn’t always drop until the third time around. Come the third time, you sna...

  • Slow Fall reviews

    Slow Fall Book Reviews

    Edgar Williams

    Slow Fall is a mystery in The Wekiwa County series. Set in the preDisney torpor of rural central Florida, it tells the story of an exMiamicop who returns to his smalltown Florida h...

  • Loose Ends reviews

    Loose Ends Book Reviews

    D. D. Vandyke

    BOOK ONE of the California Corwin P.I. Mystery Series Contains the bonus story Off The Leash a California Corwin Short Story "This is a real page turner and hard to put down....

  • Smoke and Mirrors reviews

    Smoke and Mirrors Book Reviews

    Steve Marshall

    Tired of the same old police story? Enjoy a crime series from the criminal perspective. When you can't call the cops.....Call Trunk Dennis Trunk has a reputation for ...

  • The Heart of an Assassin reviews

    The Heart of an Assassin Book Reviews

    Tony Bertot

    A young boy growing up on the streets of New York City, Tyler is exposed to both the good and bad of urban life. His future is determined by his relationship with a stranger, a dri...

  • Till The Moon Falls reviews

    Till The Moon Falls Book Reviews

    Conrad Johnson

    John Oxman, a crusty ex merchant seaman, comes to the aid of a beautiful woman who has been drugged, violated and on the run after having bio engineered, nanotechnology implanted i...

  • Diabla Meets Big Ju Ju reviews

    Diabla Meets Big Ju Ju Book Reviews

    Karl Tutt

    Diabla Meets Big Ju Ju is the third in the Dee Rabow Mystery Series. Dee is a gutsy, tough female detective with more skeletons that one closet can hold. Murders seem to stalk her ...

  • Power in the Blood reviews

    Power in the Blood Book Reviews

    Michael Lister

    From New York Times Bestselling author Michael Lister  Newly Revised with an Introduction by Michael Connelly  Was it murder, accident, or suicide? A baffling cas...

  • Killing Schmidt Honorably reviews

    Killing Schmidt Honorably Book Reviews

    Vincent Alexandre

    Charlie Schmidt, a retired assassin, is returning home after completing a flight from Paris. In under fortyeight hours all hell will break loose for Charlie when he discovers his g...

  • Train to Anywhere reviews

    Train to Anywhere Book Reviews

    David George Howard

    Eddie Griffin, a 23yearold excon, is working to put his life back together. Late one evening he witnesses a local businessman committing a murder. His life is spared, but he will b...

  • That Nietzsche Thing reviews

    That Nietzsche Thing Book Reviews

    Christopher Blankley

    Who is Q? Not the dead girl. She's just another Gene Genie taken by her addiction – by a plague tearing the world apart. Who is Q? Not Sasha. He's a cop. Though, nowadays...

  • Hard Fall reviews

    Hard Fall Book Reviews

    Phil Reade

    An excop with a past. A case police couldn't solve. One chance at redemption... ExNew York detective Thomas Blume hunts the streets of London for the killers that tore his fam...

  • The Case of the Running Bag reviews

    The Case of the Running Bag Book Reviews

    Gene Poschman

    It Began with a Simple Accident, or was it an Attempted Murder? A femme fatale. Her missing husband. A dead private detective. And a dangerous game of mistaken identity... It all s...

  • Looking For Henry Turner reviews

    Looking For Henry Turner Book Reviews

    W.L. Liberman

    Toronto, 1960. Mo Gold and Arthur "Birdie" Birdwell are like fish out of water. Mo is Jewish and sardonic; Birdie's black, thoughtful and gargantuan. They're pr...

  • Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells reviews

    Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells Book Reviews

    Bruce Hammack

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…Rifle Shells? Blind private investigator Steve Smiley and his partner hear a rifle shot. Hordes of Christmas shoppers scatter. A famous biggame hunter dr...

  • Murder on Gold Street reviews

    Murder on Gold Street Book Reviews

    Rod Moore

    Murder On Gold Street Murder Mystery Short Stories Wealthy and successful financial planner James Firth from the wealthy suburb of Carlton turns up murdered in the tough streets of...

  • Sacrifice reviews

    Sacrifice Book Reviews

    Tim Svart

    A hidden scheme. Suspiciously pat answers. Can one untested leader navigate the thin line between professional and personal justice? Essen, Germany. Chief Inspector “Karre” Karrenb...

  • Exile reviews

    Exile Book Reviews

    Stuart Nealon

    Private detective Cid Steiner takes on a case to find a missing woman before finding himself embroiled in events far darker than Steiner could have initially anticipated.

  • Full Count reviews

    Full Count Book Reviews

    Michael R Helberg

    Jake Tanner, private detective and former U.S. Marine, is tough, smart, funny and lovable. What starts out as a missing person's case quickly turns into one with international...

  • Stealing Power reviews

    Stealing Power Book Reviews

    Bo Brennan

    Stealing women's power is easy ... restoring it is deadly. Detective Chief Inspector AJ Colt lives his life in the limelight. The charismatic star of New Scotland Yard is publ...

  • Mobster Gumbo reviews

    Mobster Gumbo Book Reviews

    Michael Polillo

    Edgar Rolfe is a private eye who is trying to drop a few pounds. Maybe the local mafia, the Corbucci family, can help him with a new fitness regimen when they hire him to sneak int...

  • Heads Up reviews

    Heads Up Book Reviews

    Shaun Tennant

    Five years ago, the police department was shattered when a psychotic hit man turned his rage against homicide detectives and their families. Now, the evidence suggests that the sam...

  • A Perfect Alibi reviews

    A Perfect Alibi Book Reviews

    Anne Baines

    The job looked like the same old story. Husband thinks wife is cheating, husband hires private investigator...  Until someone ends up dead. As a former police detective tu...

  • Death Wants Three reviews

    Death Wants Three Book Reviews

    Karl Tutt

    This is the highly anticipated sequel to DEATH TIMES TWO. T.K. and Sunny think they've dodged the bullet, but the notorious Boss Lady and her lieutenant are still free. They h...

  • Dhata Mays reviews

    Dhata Mays Book Reviews

    Greg Dragon

    In a war between man and machine, he must find a way to protect them all... After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the two have learned to coexist pe...

  • MAX PAYNE reviews

    MAX PAYNE Book Reviews

    Martin Matthews

    Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his back against t...

  • Dark City, Dark Magic reviews

    Dark City, Dark Magic Book Reviews

    Peter Tarkulich

    Henry Billingsly, brother of millionaire Frederick Billingsly, is found dead with a gun in his hand. The police are convinced it was suicide, but Frederick is unconvinced and has e...

  • On the Streets for Alison reviews

    On the Streets for Alison Book Reviews

    Paul Matos

    What line would you cross for a friend? Alison is missing. Sam, her brother comes to see his old friends, Raph and Mac, fearing the worse. After the search begins they find that th...

  • Angry Betty reviews

    Angry Betty Book Reviews

    Jamie Lee Scott

    A female cop, a dead body in the trunk of a car, and drug cartels in a small Texas town. Kate Darby learned to hate cops at an early age, thanks to her drug addicted mom. No one wo...

  • The Double Trouble Caper reviews

    The Double Trouble Caper Book Reviews

    R. Archer

    SAM HILL was a wisecracking hardboiled PI from 1950. He starred in his own comic, produced at the time by Archie Comics and Closeup Inc. (toothpaste). The character has since falle...

  • The Big Goodbye reviews

    The Big Goodbye Book Reviews

    Michael Lister

    A vulnerable woman being followed. A PI determined to protect her. Former lovers embroiled in an intense mystery thriller fraught with intrigue and danger. A sexy, romantic, suspen...

  • A Thousand Bayonets reviews

    A Thousand Bayonets Book Reviews

    Joel Mark Harris

    John Webster has seen the terrible things human beings can do. He's an experienced investigative journalist, recently returned from the war in Afghanistan. John saw hell over ...

  • The Moving Finger reviews

    The Moving Finger Book Reviews

    Edward Phillips Oppenheim

    A mystifying story dealing with a wealthy M. P'. s experiment with a poor young man. The tale pulsates with life and is truly startling in some of its revelations.

  • Zero Tolerance reviews

    Zero Tolerance Book Reviews

    J.J. Klein

    Former Navy SEAL and NCIS agent, Jim Slade is now living the good life in the Florida Keys as a private detective. His small firm of two employs himself and a very ambitious and eq...

  • Not Dead Yet reviews

    Not Dead Yet Book Reviews

    Peter Menadue

    The first book in the Gary Maddox Series: Sydney private investigator Gary Maddox scratches out a living doing personal injuries surveillance. A mother asks him to find out who kil...

  • Lonely Are The Dead reviews

    Lonely Are The Dead Book Reviews

    Paul Westwood

    The year is 1977. A remorseless serialkiller is stalking Bay City. The reason for the murders is unknown, but the dismembered victims are always young and beautiful. In order to fi...

  • The Second Bat Guano War reviews

    The Second Bat Guano War Book Reviews

    J.M. Porup

    From former Lonely Planet author J.M. Porup comes this gritty South American noir... Rats ate his baby daughter while he partied in a disco. Now Horace “Horse” Mann is a druggedout...

  • Death on Highway 13 reviews

    Death on Highway 13 Book Reviews

    Joe Vannicola

    A dead body is dumped early one morning on Highway 13 by two men. The deceased, Dave Lomas, was murdered by members of a motorcycle gang, The Skulls of Highway 13. He messed around...

  • Fly Paper Soup reviews

    Fly Paper Soup Book Reviews

    Cleve Sylcox

    Attorney David Winter kicks back on the Florida beach soaking in the sunshine and watching the ladies stroll by. When his old Army buddy, Sean asks him to defend his aunt in a murd...

  • Double Bluff reviews

    Double Bluff Book Reviews

    Gary Weston

    Plenty of blood, but no bodies. Detective Senior Sergeant Stanley Morris and his team have to piece the puzzle together and try to prevent a murder and The Ferret goes to prison. T...

  • Skin and Blond reviews

    Skin and Blond Book Reviews

    V. J. Chambers

    Dark. Raw. Gritty. Blond. from USA Today bestselling author V. J. Chambers Ever since blond detective Ivy Stern got herself kicked off the police force for “sexual conduct unbecomi...

  • Colored Waters reviews

    Colored Waters Book Reviews

    Brad Stratton

    Colored Waters, the first Michael Chamber's crime/mystery novel. Calloused and hardened as he has become, Michael has a difficult time watching the video someone is using to b...

  • Sleep While I Dance reviews

    Sleep While I Dance Book Reviews

    Mark Connolly

    She is out of jail, free to forget being accused of murdering her little girl. The media has some men wanting to marry her, some just want to be near her. Two peo...

  • Lucky Corpse reviews

    Lucky Corpse Book Reviews

    Ray FitzGerald

    The toast of 1942 Hollywood is the newly crowned Heavyweight Champ, Lucky Lawson. He's got it all, the belt, the babe, and a baffling crime scene in a seedy hotel. When the ch...

  • The Reluctant Detective reviews

    The Reluctant Detective Book Reviews

    Tom Fowler

    It’s C.T.’s first case. He wants an easy one. Instead, he gets Alice. C.T. Ferguson spent years as a hacker. He lived in Hong Kong, working against the Chinese government. Then the...

  • Forgotten Boy reviews

    Forgotten Boy Book Reviews

    Todd Luchik

    A missing girl. A reluctant hero stalked through the streets of Chicago. A country on the brink of war. It's February 2003 and private detective Glenn Wozniak just wants to ri...

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    Spaghetti Junction Book Reviews

    James Dargan

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  • Scar Tissue reviews

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    Mark Gummere

    Scar Tissue is the first novel in a projected series of detective/mysteries in the spirit of Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker. Robert “Lucky” Lucas, a fifty year old retired p...