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Cotton Comes to Harlem

Chester Himes · 207 pages

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The Turquoise Lament

John D. MacDonald · 257 pages

Travis McGee #15 “Now that Linda "Pidge" Lewellen is grown up, she tells Travis McGee, once her girlhood idol, that either she's going crazy or Howie, her affable ex-jock of a husband is trying to kill her. McGee checks things out, and gives Pidge the all clear. But when Pidge and Howie sail away to kiss and make up, McGee has second thoughts. If only he can get to Pidge before he has time for

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Split Images

Elmore Leonard · 282 pages

When a Detroit homicide cop takes a vacation, he looks for some place far away from murder and mayhem. But when Bryan Hurd lands in Palm Beach, he finds that a gun-collecting millionaire and a bitter ex-cop have already brought Motown murder to the Sunshine State.

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Crime

Irvine Welsh · 343 pages

An electrifying thriller about innocence and absolute evil.Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancee Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter

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Palm Beach Nasty

Tom Turner · 304 pages

Burned out New York homicide cop Charlie Crawford goes south to take it slow. But after six months in steamy Palm Beach, Florida, he's bored out of his mind and desperate for a face-down stiff with a little rigor setting in. One Halloween night, Crawford is first on the scene and finds a twenty-year-old male swinging from a stately banyan tree. This sets in motion colliding plots involving a billi

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Suicide Hill

James Ellroy · 284 pages

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A Long Line of Dead Men

Lawrence Block · 320 pages

Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #12. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

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Midnight Rambler

James Swain · 368 pages

Explosive. Pulse-pounding. Heart-racing. From the bestselling author The Wall Street Journal hails as "one terrific writer," Midnight Rambler is the breakout thriller of the year--a brawny, brainy novel of suspense that pairs James Swain's trademark smooth-as-silk prose with a plot bigger and bolder than anything he's done before.In South Florida, Jack Carpenter is infamous. He's the cop who buste

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The Fred Carver Mysteries Volume Two

John Lutz · 871 pages

The second set of crime thrillers starring a tough Florida PI from the New York Times–bestselling author of Single White Female and "one of the masters" (Ridley Pearson). New York Times– and USA Today–bestselling author John Lutz has been hailed as "a major talent" by John Lescroart, and he "just keeps getting better and better" (Tony Hillerman). "Lutz offers up a heart-pounding roller coaster" (J

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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 45% Hangover

Stuart MacBride

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Havana Fever

Leonardo Padura · 286 pages

Mario Conde, a former police detective turned second-hand book dealer, finds a magazine clipping about a singer from the 1950s, Violeta del Río, and begins to investigate her mysterious retirement.

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The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo · 519 pages

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Sins As Scarlet

Nicolás Obregón · 400 pages

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Last Car to Elysian Fields

James Lee Burke · 336 pages

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Island of Bones

P.J. Parrish · 382 pages

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Arctic-Nation

Juan Diaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido · 72 pages

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The Emerald Lie

Ken Bruen · 256 pages

Ex-cop Jack Taylor must investigate a serial killer who is murdering Galway residents guilty of using bad grammar. At the same time, a grieving father has hired Jack to exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter's rape and murder.

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Happy Birthday, Turk!

Jakob Arjouni

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When the Thrill Is Gone

Walter Mosley · 365 pages

A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?

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Stolen Away

Max Allan Collins · 561 pages

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Black Jack

Willow Rose · 434 pages

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