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  • Prodigal Son

    by Thomas B. Cavanagh ...
    Series series The Mike Garrity Mysteries
    “With the clarity of Robert B. Parker and the complexity of Michael Connolly, [this thriller] disturbs and charms at the same time.” —BooklistOnce a cancer patient, former Orlando detective Mike Garrity is a survivor—for now, at least. Death has a way of following him around, like a black cloud over his head. If it’s not his own mortality he’s thinking about, it’s someone else’s. Like his teenage ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suicide Hill

    by James Ellroy ...
    Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department and one of its most troubled. In his obsessive mission to protect the innocent, there is no line he won’t cross. Estranged from his wife and daughters and on the verge of being drummed out of the department for his transgressions, Hopkins is assigned to investigate a series of bloody bank ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • Trouble Is My Business. Philip Marlowe. Illustrated

    by Raymond Chandler ...
    Trouble Is My Business is a classic collection of hardboiled detective stories featuring Raymond Chandler’s iconic private investigator, Philip Marlowe. First published in 1950, this collection showcases Chandler’s sharp, atmospheric writing and his talent for crafting intricate, noir-style mysteries set in the gritty underworld of Los Angeles. In these stories, Marlowe navigates a world of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Hemlock And Homicide

    by Bruce Hammack ...
    Series Book 12 - Smiley and McBlythe Mystery
    Tinsel, treachery and toxins… the perfect Christmas cocktail.Acclaimed for success in a career where sight is considered essential for detection, blind private investigator Steve Smiley has always relied on his extraordinarily heightened senses and razor-sharp intellect. His sighted business partner is usually at hand to offer her penetrating insights, but when she becomes consumed with a high ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Call to Arms (Detective Kay Hunter crime thriller series, Book 5)

    A Detective Kay Hunter crime thriller

    by Rachel Amphlett ...
    Series Book 5 - Detective Kay Hunter
    If you knew what the truth could do, would you lie?Returning to work after an enforced absence, Detective Kay Hunter discovers she wasn’t the only victim of her previous investigation.DI Devon Sharp remains suspended from duties, and the team is in turmoil.Determined to prove herself once more and clear his name, Kay undertakes to solve a cold case that links Sharp to his accuser.But, as she gets ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For Reasons Unknown (DCI Matilda Darke Thriller, Book 1)

    by Michael Wood ...
    Series Book 1 - DCI Matilda Darke Thriller
    Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more…DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness was their eleven-year-old son, Jonathan, who was too deeply traumatized to speak a word.Then a dead body is discovered, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarry's Cut

    Quarry

    by Max Allan Collins ...
    Series Book 4 - Quarry
    It’s normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they’re dead bodies – and the cast and crew discover they’re trapped in a house with a serial killer – Quarry’s got his work cut out for him.NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES!The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Little Sister

    A Novel

    by Raymond Chandler ...
    The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, a movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure private eye Philip Marlowe ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Knots and Crosses

    An Inspector Rebus Novel

    by Ian Rankin ...
    Series Book 1 - Inspector Rebus Novels
    Knots and Crosses introduces gifted mystery novelist Ian Rankin, a fascinating locale and the most compellingly complex detective hero at work today.Inspector John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Old Dick

    by L. A. Morse ...
    WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL.---Retired private eye Jake Spanner may have gotten old, but he hasn’t gone soft. When an old gangster Jake put away some forty years ago shows up at his door, it’s time for Jake to grab his hat and Browning automatic and get back to work.Old? Sure. Slower to catch his breath? Maybe. But, sharp as a tack and with a lifetime of investigating ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roughneck

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Burden of Innocence

    by John Nardizzi ...
    Series Book 2 - The Ray Infantino Files
    Investigation is continuing with the return of PI Ray Infantino in a crime thriller written by “a bold new poet of American noir - This is the book Chandler would have written if he’d been a real-life private eye.” – Ellen McGarrahan, Author of NYT Editor's Choice Two Truths and a Lie.The Burden of Innocence earned a 2022 Shamus Award nomination by Private Eye Writers of America for Best PI ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps

    The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s

    Edited by Otto Penzler ...
    The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled.Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Right Murder

    by Craig Rice ...
    Series series The John J. Malone Mysteries
    A dozen murders and counting—and any one of them could lead a Chicago attorney to a hotheaded female tycoon.It’s 11:59 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and criminal lawyer John J. Malone is nursing his blues in a Chicago dive bar. He’s been two-timed by his inamorata and abandoned by his favorite gumshoe partners, crime reporter Jake Justus and socialite Helene Brand, for their Bermuda honeymoon. But Malone ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hard Money

    A Michael Flint Novel

    by Diane Capri ...
    Series Book 4 - Michael Flint Series
    The thrilling new unputdownable Michael Flint novel from Best Selling Author Diane Capri!Death stalks the Lyman family. No heir has lived to reach the age of thirty.Two years ago, the last heir vanished. After an underwater explosion, his body was never found.Accident, curse, or revenge?Spencer Lyman managed to break free from his criminal underworld and build a legitimate empire. But escaping a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Telegraph Hill

    by John Nardizzi ...
    Series Book 1 - The Ray Infantino Files
    In the detective business, you're either a hero or a bum - and PI Ray Infantino knows the difference. Ray searches for a missing girl named Tania in San Francisco, the city he abandoned years ago after his fiance was murdered. Thrust into his old city haunts, Ray finds that Tania may not be lost at all. Tania saw a murder; and a criminal gang, the Black Fist Triad, wants to make sure she never ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Hornet

    The INTENSE and GRIPPING action thriller from bestseller Rob Sinclair

    by Rob Sinclair ...
    Series Book 2 - The James Ryker Series
    Discover the gripping, fast-paced thriller series that will grip fans of Mark Dawson and the Jason Bourne novels.'A cracking thriller with a Reacheresque hero you can't help but root for!' – John Ryder Praise for Rob Sinclair:What would you do if the love of your life vanished without a trace?If you’re ex-intelligence agent James Ryker, you search for the answers whatever the cost, however much ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scared to Death (Detective Kay Hunter crime thriller series, Book 1)

    A gripping fast-paced crime thriller

    by Rachel Amphlett ...
    Series Book 1 - Detective Kay Hunter
    "If you want to see your daughter alive again, listen carefully."When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong.But Detective Kay Hunter isn’t convinced, especially when a man is found dead with the ransom money still in his possession.When a second schoolgirl is taken, Kay’s worst fears are realised.With ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Mother

    A completely addictive psychological thriller from J.A. Baker

    by J A Baker ...
    A shocking psychological thriller from bestselling author, J.A. Baker!Three troubled women. One deadly secret.Lissy and her daughter, Rosie, live a quiet life and keep themselves to themselves. But when shocking events at Rosie’s school are revealed, their peaceful existence is shattered.Meanwhile, middle-aged women Erica and Beverley appear to have perfect lives, but behind closed doors, things ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Head Games

    by Thomas B. Cavanagh ...
    Series series The Mike Garrity Mysteries
    “[A] thriller that reads like a high-speed theme park ride . . . with dark humor so sharp it’ll make you bleed.” —Brian Freeman, New York Times–bestselling authorFormer Orlando detective Michael Garrity doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to women. With two ex-wives and a teenage daughter he rarely sees, the most significant relationship in his life right now is with the tumor in his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brothers Keepers

    by Donald E. Westlake ...
    What will a group of monks do when their century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise?What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Don't Let Her In

    The completely addictive psychological thriller from Joanne Ryan

    by Joanne Ryan ...
    The letters drop onto every doormat…Lena just moved to Mandalay Close. She needed a new start, since her boyfriend cheated her out of the happy-ever-after she’d believed they were always going to share.But on the day Lena moves in, letters begin to arrive for all her new neighbours. Letters that promise to expose everyone’s deepest, darkest secrets. Every house has received one – except for Lena’s ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Family Honor

    by Robert B. Parker ...
    Series Book 1 - Sunny Randall
    A blazingly original novel from the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, featuring a sharp, tough, sexy new P.I., Sunny Randall.Sunny Randall is a Boston P.I. and former cop, a college graduate, an aspiring painter, a divorcée, and the owner of a miniature bull terrier named Rosie. Hired by a wealthy family to locate their teenage daughter, Sunny is tested by the parents’ preconceived notion ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Maddy's Floor

    A Psychic Visions Novel

    by Dale Mayer ...
    Series Book 3 - Psychic Visions
    Are some souls not meant to be saved?Psychic medical intuitive and licensed physician Madeleine Wagner thought she'd seen every way possible to heal a diseased body. But, when her patients begin dying from mysterious causes, Maddy realizes she might be dealing with an evil force that may be outside her ability to cure.Maddy's medical facility, Maddy's Floor, has helped countless terminally-ill ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus