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  • Nightmare in Pink

    A Travis McGee Novel

    by John D. MacDonald ...
    Book 3 - Travis McGee
    From a beloved master of crime fiction, Nightmare in Pink is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.Travis McGee’s permanent address is the Busted Flush, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale, and there isn’t a hell of a lot that compels him to leave it. Except maybe a call from an old army buddy who needs a favor. If it wasn’t for him, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • February's Son

    by Alan Parks ...
    series The Harry McCoy Thrillers
    Finalist for the Edgar Award: “McCoy is so noir he makes most other Scottish cops seem light grey.” —The TimesAn up-and-coming footballer has met an untimely end—and in a spectacularly gruesome fashion, topped off with the words Bye Bye carved into his chest. Harry McCoy knows this kind of violence indicates a personal, passionate motive, and since the footballer’s future father-in-law is a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sans elle

    by Amélie Antoine ...
    **Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie.Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau.Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s’adoraient.Jusqu’à un soir de feu d’artifice où l’une d’elles se volatilise brutalement.Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables.Jusqu’à ce qu’il n’en reste plus qu’une.Il était une fois une histoire qui n’a rien d’un ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gone

    A totally unputdownable, gripping psychological thriller from Ruby Speechley for 2023

    by Ruby Speechley ...
    **## My son is missing, and everyone is lying to me.**Last night my son, Shay, sneaked out of the house and didn’t come home. He promised not to go to the illegal party in the woods. But someone’s been attacked and Shay has gone missing. The police want to know if he saw what happened. I’m worried he could be involved.After all the trouble he’s been in lately, mixing with the wrong crowd, coming ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Raylan

    A Novel

    by Elmore Leonard ...
    “Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today.”—New York Times Book ReviewThe revered New York Times bestselling author, recognized as “America’s greatest crime writer” (Newsweek), brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the mesmerizing hero of Pronto, Riding the Rap, and the hit FX series Justified.With the closing of the Harlan County, K... ... Read more

    $12.49 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Enchanters

    A novel

    by James Ellroy ...
    James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some getback. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    A Novel

    by Michael Chabon ...
    For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • A Bad Place to Be a Hero

    by Jerry F. Westinger ...
    Book 1 - The Bad Series
    "There is no bigger bastard than a man who thinks he's a hero."Thessa is a young noblewoman who has an unfortunate run-in with a werewolf on her engagement night. Lokenn is a fugitive necromancer, out to restore the reputation of his maligned art. Corlis is an innkeeper nursing a dying aunt amidst rapidly mounting debts. And around them all, a dirty city hides a web of even dirtier secrets.In a ... Read more

    $3.75 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Six Graves

    An absolutely heart-pounding and addictive crime thriller

    by Angela Marsons ...
    Book 16 - Detective Kim Stone Crime Thriller Series
    It’s a typical teenage bedroom with posters covering the walls and clothes littering the floor. But the girl lying on her bed, wearing a delicate chain around her neck, is lifeless. A circle of red stains her white vest top. How had the girl’s mother looked down at her sleeping child and pulled the trigger?   When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene of a house fire, she’s shocked to discover ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So Shall You Reap

    by Donna Leon ...
    In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti’s own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murderOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice’s canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Rage in Harlem

    by Chester Himes ...
    Book 1 - Harlem Detectives
    **A rip-roaring introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.“[This] Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction.” —**The New York TimesFor the love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dead Sister

    by Jonathan Dunsky ...
    Book 2 - Adam Lapid Mysteries
    The police don't want to catch the killer. So he'll have to.Tel Aviv, 1949 - A young Arab woman lies murdered in the city morgue and no one seems to care. The newspapers won't report it. The police won't investigate. No one is trying to solve the case.Except one man.Private detective Adam Lapid is the only one investigating the murder. And he won’t rest until the killer is off the streets.Adam’s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Borderline

    by Mishell Baker ...
    series The Arcadia Project
    A cynical, disabled film director with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in this Nebula Award–nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that’s the first novel in a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker.A year ago, Millie lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Archer Files

    The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator

    by Ross Macdonald ...
    Book 17 - Lew Archer Series
    No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on—a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person—the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Archer dug up secrets and bodies in and around Los Angeles.Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • The Second Murderer

    A Philip Marlowe Novel

    by Denise Mina ...
    Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress—and up against a rival PI—in this smart and atmospheric authorized mystery from acclaimed crime writer and "one-of-a-kind storyteller" Denise Mina (James Patterson), the first woman to recreate Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective."Perhaps the most pleasing and affecting Marlowe pastiche yet.” —Wall Street JournalHas Philip Marlowe finally me... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Killing Innocence

    Jack Fariel Denver mysteries, #2

    by Merit Clark ...
    Book 2 - Jack Fariel Denver mysteries
    Killing Innocence, the second installment in Merit Clark's award-winning Denver-based mysteries, takes homicide detective Jack Fariel deep into the world of human trafficking."How could four young women simply disappear? One similarity between them—girls no one cared about, no one would look for, no one would miss. Perfect prey."What if a church was a front for human trafficking?A minister with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blessing of the Lost Girls

    A Brady and Walker Family Novel

    by J. A Jance ...
    From J. A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker’s son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Death on Cromer Beach

    Another crime series from bestseller Ross Greenwood for 2023

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    Book 1 - DS Knight
    The first in a new series from bestselling author, Ross Greenwood!A brutal double murder on a Norfolk beach horrifies the town of Cromer. The way the victims died is chilling and so Norfolk’s Major Investigation Team task DS Ashley Knight to manage the case.It soon becomes clear that the murders were carefully planned and the finger of suspicion points to an organised crime gang, but as the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dying Place

    An utterly unputdownable, heart-racing crime thriller

    by Charly Cox ...
    Book 5 - Detective Alyssa Wyatt
    When the trunk slammed closed, sealing her fate, a deep cold slithered into the center of Kennedy’s bones. All she could do was pray that her attacker would leave enough of her for her family to identify…Kennedy Farmer, an experienced athlete, never returns after leaving for her usual running route through the dusty mountain trails of New Mexico.While the search for Kennedy begins, Detective ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bittersweet

    by C. J. Carmichael ...
    Book 4 - Bitter Root Mysteries
    Murder in a small town is always personal.Local longtime librarian, Sybil Tombe, is missing, abducted from her home on the outskirts of the isolated ranching town of Lost Trail, Montana. An elderly neighbor reports seeing a gray-haired, bearded man driving up to Sybil’s house the night she disappeared. Newly-minted Sheriff Zak Waller can’t think of a less likely target for a crime. When an older ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remember Me?

    An addictive psychological thriller that you won't be able to put down

    by Amanda Ashby, Sally Rigby ...
    A perfect life…Paul Henderson leads a normal life. A deputy headteacher at a good school, a loving relationship with girlfriend Jenna, and a baby on the way. Everything seems perfect.A shocking message…Until Paul receives a message from his ex-fiance Nicole. Beautiful, ambitious and fierce, Nicole is everything Jenna is not. And now it seems Nicole is back, and she has a score to settle with Paul ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Woman at Number 19

    A gripping psychological thriller from J.A. Baker for summer 2023

    by J A Baker ...
    *** THIS SUMMER'S MUST-READ PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ***Esther lost her husband, Julian, and her children, Harriet and Dexter, in a car accident and is struggling with her grief.Spurred on by her own loneliness and a need to make amends for not being able to save her own children, Esther takes it upon herself to watch the woman who lives at number 19..But when unexplainable incidents begin to happen ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conned: A Bureau Story

    by Kim Fielding ...
    Book 7 - The Bureau
    World War I veteran Thomas Donne is new to San Francisco. Always a stoic man, shell shock and a lost love have nearly turned his heart to stone. No matter—a private eye has no room for softness. Almost broke, he takes on what appears to be a simple case: finding a missing young man.As a magician and medium, Abraham Ferencz cons his audiences into believing he can cheat death and commune with their ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keller's Fedora

    Keller, #6

    by Lawrence Block ...
    Book 6 - Keller
    A NEW HAT.FOR A NEW HIT.Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking him to tackle the most unusual assignment of his career. The client's wife is having an affair, and Keller's been hired to get rid of her lover. But who is this mysterious lover? The husband doesn ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus