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42) Gas City
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces-greed and corruption, ambition and desire-run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.
A power struggle-between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp,...
43) Bandit love
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
PI Marco "the Alligator" Buratti returns in a thriller.
Now, Massimo Carlotto gives his American readers his most memorable character yet: ex-con turned private investigator Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the Alligator.
Closing the door on a crime-ridden past, Buratti plans to spend the rest of his days in the darkness of a seedy nightclub sipping Calvados and listening to the blues. But things don't quite work out as he planned: though he may be through...
Author
Series
Agent John Adderley novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
"After surviving a brutal attack and with a price on his head, undercover FBI Agent John Adderley investigates a high-profile cold case involving a young heiress. He is determined to solve this case while hiding-out and until he can testify against the drug cartel he infiltrated back in the States."--
45) The lover
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
A Felony & Mayhem ed.
Language
English
Description
"A tense and intelligent psychological thriller that confirms Laura Wilson's seat at the high table of British crime writing." -The Guardian
Winner of the Prix du Polar Européen (France)
It's the fall of 1940, and London is being destroyed by the Blitz. Every night, its citizens cram into shelters, basements, subway stations-anything to avoid the bombs. And every morning, they awake to scenes of fresh devastation. But some of those citizens...
46) SoHo sins
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2016.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Language
English
Description
"They were the New York art scene's golden couple--until the day Amanda Oliver was found murdered in her SoHo loft, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But was he a continent away when the trigger was pulled? Art dealer Jackson Wyeth sets out to learn the truth, and uncovers the dangerous secrets lurking beneath the surface of Manhattan's posh galleries and decadent parties, a world of adultery and madness, of beautiful girls growing...
47) The fugitive
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Massimo Carlotto's odyssey began in 1976 when, as a member of a militant leftwing organization that had fallen awry of the ruling powers, he was arrested and falsely accused of murder. Unwilling to play the role of fall guy in a political power struggle, he chose to flee the country rather than wait for a verdict that the whole country knew was a foregone conclusion. He first went into hiding in the French underworld and then made his way to a Mexico...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lenny Ovitz has plenty of secrets, and his wife, Paulina, has become a liability. His life would be so much better without her in it. It's the mid-'60s in Toronto, and Lenny works for a ruthless gangster whose travel agency is a front for a collections racket in the Kensington Market area. Lenny's days are spent with his partner, Gabe, terrorizing the locals into paying protection on their shops and their lives. On the side, Lenny and Gabe co-own...
49) The painted gun
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1997 at the dawn of the digital age in San Francisco. Ex-journalist and struggling alcoholic David "Itchy" Crane's fledgling "information consultancy" business is getting slowly buried by bad luck, bad decisions, and the growing presence of the Internet. Before Itchy can completely self-destruct, a crooked private investigator offers him fifty grand to find a missing girl named Ashley. Crane takes the job because the money's right and because...
50) Solea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The final book in the Marseilles trilogy, following Chourmo.
Ex-cop, loner, Fabio Montale returns in this stunning conclusion to Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseilles trilogy. Italian Mafiosi are hunting journalist-activist Babette Bellini, and the body count is growing as they close in on their prey. In desperation, Bellini seeks help from her former lover, Montale. Before he has time to shake off his most recent hangover, Montale is receiving sinister...
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A political noir tale set during the summer of 1968 in which the lives of three men collide in the pursuit of the leftist shadow figure known as the Red Goddess Joan.
52) Double wide
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous...
53) Once were cops
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay's dream is about to become New York's nightmare.
Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed...
55) Honey: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As 24-year-old Nicole Hewett mourns at her father's grave, she worries about her mother, badly injured in the car accident that killed him, and whether they'll be able to make ends meet. Then she sees her beloved childhood friend, Honey, standing beside her old Cadillac. As Honey approaches, Nicole realizes how numb she's felt ever since Honey fled their hometown without explanation six years earlier. Before long, Nicole's old fascination with Honey...
56) Paperback Jack
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Paperback Jack is a brand new historical thriller from Grand Master Loren D. Estleman: lurid paperback covers promised sex and danger, but what went on behind the scenes was nearly as spicy as the adventures between the covers. 1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels, offering...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Crime. Vengeance. Love. Physics. The infamous Deadbomb Bingo Ray is a high level fixer in the City of Brotherly Love. He's the man you call when you've crossed the line into hopeless and there's no way back to anywhere. Three years have passed since Ray burned a hedge fund manager on behalf of a pool of retirees, and now the money man is back for revenge. While Ray unravels the plot and orchestrates some payback of his own, he unwittingly steps into...
59) The company man
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Company Man takes listeners on a wild ride to 1919 Washington state, where a war is brewing between the McNaughton Corporation and its union workers. When the conflict's latest casualty prompts McNaughton security officer Cyril Hayes to investigate, he's soon caught up in worker claims that the corporation's machines have minds of their own.
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