Best Hard Boiled Mysteries Books

Best Free Hard Boiled Mysteries Books of 2024

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Predestination And Other Stories reviews

    Predestination And Other Stories Book Reviews

    Annie Haq

    A compilation of three stories about the circumstances that carve our destinies. The forces that act beyond human comprehension some working in our favor while others against us.

  • 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...

  • The Man with the Crooked Eye -- A Rafe Velez Mystery reviews

    The Man with the Crooked Eye -- A Rafe Velez Mystery Book Reviews

    AB Stonebridge

    A notsosimple cheating boyfriend investigation turns into murder and robbery. Plus, there's a $250,000 lottery payoff up for grabs if somebody is willing to cover up a piece ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hard Landing reviews

    Hard Landing Book Reviews

    Peter Menadue

    Second book in the Gary Maddox Series: Sydney private investigator Gary Maddox is asked to find a missing accountant. He doesn't expect any trouble. After all, the guy is just...

  • 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...

  • Vengeance reviews

    Vengeance Book Reviews

    Donald Phillips

    John MacAllister is an honest copper. This honesty will probably mean that he will stay at his current rank for the rest of his time in the force, after a well known judge was sent...

  • A Fatal Affair reviews

    A Fatal Affair Book Reviews

    Pamela Crane

    The short story companion book to the bestselling psychological thriller, The Admirer's Secret. A husband in love with his wife. A wife willing to do anything to escape him. A...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Murder from the Newsdesk reviews

    Murder from the Newsdesk Book Reviews

    Peter Bartram

    Murder from the Newsdesk Crime reporter Colin Crampton uses every newspaper scam he knows to crack 10 more mysteries A crime reporter chasing headlines The clues that set him on th...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Corpses Say The Darndest Things reviews

    Corpses Say The Darndest Things Book Reviews

    Doug Lamoreux

    It was a simple job: keep an eye on the minister's wife until she goes safely to bed. Then all hell broke loose. The death of a beloved Chicago televangelist’s wife is only th...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Accidental Hero reviews

    The Accidental Hero Book Reviews

    Joshua Graham

    Ruthless hitman confronts his destiny in a startling tale of redemption.

  • The Celestial Op reviews

    The Celestial Op Book Reviews

    James Hold

    A nod and a wink to Dashiell Hammett. A nameless operative for the Celestial Detective agency investigates a crime scene.

  • 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...

  • Valentine in Paris reviews

    Valentine in Paris Book Reviews

    James Davis

    A Nick Valentine short story. Disgraced Great War hero, Nick Valentine returns to France for the first time since the war on what should be a routine information gathering assignme...

  • The Grave on Peckerwood Hill reviews

    The Grave on Peckerwood Hill Book Reviews

    James Vineyard

    Charlie Eastman, whom everyone repeatedly mistakes for a Texas Ranger, is the protagonist in this fastpaced, contemporary authentic Texas mystery. Set in West Texas today, The Grav...

  • Rook reviews

    Rook Book Reviews

    Tom Watts

    Go back to the beginning. Dive into the gritty world of Rook, the Jack Peterson Novella. Find out how it all began.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Last Laugh reviews

    The Last Laugh Book Reviews

    Justin Cawthorne

    Detective Dirk Nickel couldn't care less about clowns, but his is a city without laughs where clowns are a dying breed. Then, one day Nickel is framed branded a 'chuckle...

  • 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...

  • 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 Reluctant Coroner reviews

    The Reluctant Coroner Book Reviews

    Paul Austin Ardoin

    Blood is thicker than oiluntil murder is involved. Fenway Stevenson doesn't want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of...

  • Little Broken Things reviews

    Little Broken Things Book Reviews

    Cheryl Bradshaw

    Detective Georgiana Germaine is back on the trail of a coldblooded killer, and once again, the case hits close to home . Twentyyearold Olivia Spencer sits at her desk in her mother...

  • 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...

  • Bangkok Burn reviews

    Bangkok Burn Book Reviews

    Simon Royle

    12 May 2010 A war is taking place on the streets of Bangkok as political cliques fire bullets and rockets at each other. Mysterious 'Men in Black' snipe combatants from b...

  • 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 ...

  • Shelter Skelter reviews

    Shelter Skelter Book Reviews

    Michael Polillo

    Edgar Rolfe is a private detective who only wants to eat his lunch in peace. But a frazzled woman ruins that opportunity when she comes in with talks of her brother being killed in...

  • 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...

Best Paid Hard Boiled Mysteries Books of 2024

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Predestination And Other Stories reviews

    Predestination And Other Stories Book Reviews

    Annie Haq

    A compilation of three stories about the circumstances that carve our destinies. The forces that act beyond human comprehension some working in our favor while others against us.

  • 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...

  • The Man with the Crooked Eye -- A Rafe Velez Mystery reviews

    The Man with the Crooked Eye -- A Rafe Velez Mystery Book Reviews

    AB Stonebridge

    A notsosimple cheating boyfriend investigation turns into murder and robbery. Plus, there's a $250,000 lottery payoff up for grabs if somebody is willing to cover up a piece ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hard Landing reviews

    Hard Landing Book Reviews

    Peter Menadue

    Second book in the Gary Maddox Series: Sydney private investigator Gary Maddox is asked to find a missing accountant. He doesn't expect any trouble. After all, the guy is just...

  • 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...

  • Vengeance reviews

    Vengeance Book Reviews

    Donald Phillips

    John MacAllister is an honest copper. This honesty will probably mean that he will stay at his current rank for the rest of his time in the force, after a well known judge was sent...

  • A Fatal Affair reviews

    A Fatal Affair Book Reviews

    Pamela Crane

    The short story companion book to the bestselling psychological thriller, The Admirer's Secret. A husband in love with his wife. A wife willing to do anything to escape him. A...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Murder from the Newsdesk reviews

    Murder from the Newsdesk Book Reviews

    Peter Bartram

    Murder from the Newsdesk Crime reporter Colin Crampton uses every newspaper scam he knows to crack 10 more mysteries A crime reporter chasing headlines The clues that set him on th...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Corpses Say The Darndest Things reviews

    Corpses Say The Darndest Things Book Reviews

    Doug Lamoreux

    It was a simple job: keep an eye on the minister's wife until she goes safely to bed. Then all hell broke loose. The death of a beloved Chicago televangelist’s wife is only th...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Accidental Hero reviews

    The Accidental Hero Book Reviews

    Joshua Graham

    Ruthless hitman confronts his destiny in a startling tale of redemption.

  • The Celestial Op reviews

    The Celestial Op Book Reviews

    James Hold

    A nod and a wink to Dashiell Hammett. A nameless operative for the Celestial Detective agency investigates a crime scene.

  • 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...

  • Valentine in Paris reviews

    Valentine in Paris Book Reviews

    James Davis

    A Nick Valentine short story. Disgraced Great War hero, Nick Valentine returns to France for the first time since the war on what should be a routine information gathering assignme...

  • The Grave on Peckerwood Hill reviews

    The Grave on Peckerwood Hill Book Reviews

    James Vineyard

    Charlie Eastman, whom everyone repeatedly mistakes for a Texas Ranger, is the protagonist in this fastpaced, contemporary authentic Texas mystery. Set in West Texas today, The Grav...

  • Rook reviews

    Rook Book Reviews

    Tom Watts

    Go back to the beginning. Dive into the gritty world of Rook, the Jack Peterson Novella. Find out how it all began.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Last Laugh reviews

    The Last Laugh Book Reviews

    Justin Cawthorne

    Detective Dirk Nickel couldn't care less about clowns, but his is a city without laughs where clowns are a dying breed. Then, one day Nickel is framed branded a 'chuckle...

  • 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...

  • 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 Reluctant Coroner reviews

    The Reluctant Coroner Book Reviews

    Paul Austin Ardoin

    Blood is thicker than oiluntil murder is involved. Fenway Stevenson doesn't want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of...

  • Little Broken Things reviews

    Little Broken Things Book Reviews

    Cheryl Bradshaw

    Detective Georgiana Germaine is back on the trail of a coldblooded killer, and once again, the case hits close to home . Twentyyearold Olivia Spencer sits at her desk in her mother...

  • 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...

  • Bangkok Burn reviews

    Bangkok Burn Book Reviews

    Simon Royle

    12 May 2010 A war is taking place on the streets of Bangkok as political cliques fire bullets and rockets at each other. Mysterious 'Men in Black' snipe combatants from b...

  • 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 ...

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