Max Fisher, ehemals erfolgreicher Unternehmer, erfindet sich als Hip-Hop-Crackdealer neu. Angela Petrakos, einst seine Assistentin und Geliebte, geht zurück nach Irland, wo sie sich einem rekordverdächtigen Serienkiller anschließt. Werden sich die Wege von Max und Angela wieder kreuzen? Die bösen Genies, die schon "Flop" geschrieben haben, schieben jetzt eine Achterbahnfahrt voller Spannung und Chaos, voll von bösartigem Witz hinterher. Lesen auf eigene Gefahr! Sagen Sie nicht, wir hätten ...

Wenn du einen Killer engagierst, nimm keinen Psychopathen! Dies ist nur eine der bitteren Lektionen, die der skrupellose Geschäftsmann Max Fisher lernen muss, als er den ehemaligen IRA-Mann Dillon auf seine verhasste Gattin ansetzt. Was er nicht weiß: Seine unwiderstehliche Geliebte steckt mit dem draufgängerischen Profi killer unter einer Decke. Jeder versucht den anderen auszuspielen, am Ende kämpfen alle in dieser brutalen Komödie nur noch ums nackte Überleben ...

Die gute Nachricht: Max Fisher und Angela Petrakos sind zurück! Die schlechte: Der eine wurde von der New Yorker Polizei wegen Drogenhandels eingebuchtet, der anderen gelang nach einem brutalen Mord nur knapp die Flucht aus dem Land. Jetzt müssen sie feststellen, dass Gesetzesbruch nur wenig Spaß macht. Max schmort in einer Zelle im berüchtigten Attica, Angela versauert im uralten Knast auf der griechischen Insel Lesbos ... Soll das wirklich das Ende sein?

She was every man’s dream—and one man’s nightmare. Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover—and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she’s ready to make him pay …

True Crime detective Nathan Heller returns in a brand new case that connects a millionaire’s kidnapped child to Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign to bring down union boss Jimmy Hoffa.Nathan Heller, star of MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins’ most acclaimed series of novels (more than 1 million copies sold to date!), comes to Hard Case Crime for the first time in an all-new thriller drawn from the pages of history. A millionaire’s son is kidnapped and private eye...

QUENTIN TARANTINO on NOBODY'S ANGEL: “My favorite fiction novel this year was written by a taxi driver who used to hand it out to his passengers. It’s a terrific story and character study of a cabbie in Chicago during a time when a serial killer is robbing and murdering cabbies. Kudos to Hard Case Crime for publishing Mr. Clark’s book.”TWO KILLERS STALK THE STREETS OF CHICAGO—CAN ONE TAXI DRIVER CORNER THEM BOTH?Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy ...

From Perry Mason-creator Erle Stanley Gardner comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool."About the best of the series... perhaps since the very first." — Raymond ChandlerPrivate investigators Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, stars of five of Hard Case Crime’s most popular novels, return to solve their toughest case yet.Hired to prevent a socialite from poisoning he...

A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME!The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever."I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime ...

**"REAL NOIR... A GROTESQUELY MEMORABLE RIDE." - WALL STREET JOURNALTWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION**An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it’s up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman’s life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost – and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible for splittin...

SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEYMavis St. Paul had been a rich man’s mistress. Now she was a corpse. And every cop in New York City was hunting for the two-bit punk accused of putting a knife in her.But the punk was innocent. He’d been set up to take the fall by some cutie who was too clever by half. My job? Find that cutie – before the cutie found me.

A paranoid thriller in the mind-bending tradition of Philip K. Dick and The Twilight Zone, THE NEXT TIME I DIE will draw you into its claustrophobic web of suspense and leave you questioning everything you think you know.DYING WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING.Steven Blitz didn’t think about his own safety when he saw the man trying to force a woman into his car. He stepped in to defend her, and got a knife to the gut for his troubles.But when he wakes up in t...

Discover the lost crime novel by the noir legend behind Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, and The Postman Always Rings Twice—now published here for the first time!Following her husband’s death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son.At the job, she encounters two men who ...