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Blonde Faith

Walter Mosley · 314 pages

Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Chrismas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon. Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems. The love of his life is marrying another man and his friend Mouse is wa

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Time to Murder and Create

Lawrence Block · 190 pages

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Innocent Monster

Reed Farrel Coleman · 291 pages

Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager's family apart, when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse. Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah's dearest childhood friend, has been abducted. As Moe stumbles around the fringes of the New York art scene, he discovers that suspects abound beyond the usual pred

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The Neon Rain

James Lee Burke · 275 pages

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The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo · 519 pages

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Darkness, Take My Hand

Dennis Lehane · 480 pages

The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in this terrifying tale of darkness and redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know something about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of

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Laidlaw

William McIlvanney · 224 pages

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Caribbean Rain

Rick Murcer · 392 pages

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Let The Dead Lie

Malla Nunn · 382 pages

This suspenseful novel from award-winning author Malla Nunn is taut and tightly paced. Set in 1953 in South Africa, a country that surrounds Nunn’s country of birth, Swaziland, the detective novel masterfully blends all elements that are required in such a text. Whether it is read as a sequel to Nunn’s impressive debut novel, A Beautiful Place to Die, or by itself matters little, but that it is mo

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Stolen Away

Max Allan Collins · 561 pages

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Powers: Definitive Collection, Vol. 1

Brian Michael Bendis · 456 pages

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The End of the World in Breslau

Marek Krajewski · 294 pages

"1927, Breslau, Poland: Two elaborate and sadistic murders are discovered within days of each other. The body of an unknown musician, bound and gagged, is found in the walls of a shoemaker's workshop--he's been sealed in alive. Elsewhere in the city, the mutilated body of a locksmith is found. Next to each victim is a torn-out calendar page, with the day of the death marked in blood. Nothing else

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Killer's Wedge

Ed McBain · 160 pages

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Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith · 384 pages

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu

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Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel

Ross Macdonald · 192 pages

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Maigret in Montmartre

Georges Simenon · 146 pages

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Let It Bleed

Ian Rankin · 368 pages

The eighth Inspector Rebus mystery. Rebus is haunted by the deaths of two drop-outs who fall from the Forth Bridge. Why did they pretend to kidnap the Provost's daughter and what connection have they with the Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Office and a dead, corrupt city councillor? Rebus is haunted by the deaths of two drop-outs who fall from the Forth Bridge. Why did they pretend to kidnap

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Midnight in Havana

Peggy Blair

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Babylon Berlin

Volker Kutscher · 518 pages

Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath, was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the Vice Squad in Berlin, a job he detests, even though he finds a new friend in his boss, Chief Inspector Wolter. There is seething unrest in the city and the Commissioner of Police has ordered the Vi

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Farewell, My Lovely

Raymond Chandler · 249 pages

This is one of Chandler’s most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who’s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.

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The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories

Dashiell Hammett · 189 pages

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Needle in a Haystack

Ernesto Mallo, Jethro Soutar · 195 pages

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Holy Orders

Benjamin Black, John Banville · 311 pages

When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State.--

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