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Flawless ... beyond perfection. New York Magazine "An astonishingly well-written literary novel that just happened to be about (or roundabout) a crime." Barry Gifford " Black Wings Has My Angel is an indisputable noir classic ! Elliott Chaze was a fine prose stylist, witty, insightful, nostalgic, and irreverent, and a first-class storyteller." Bill Pronzini An escaped convict encounters an enterprising prostitute at the start of this hard-boiled...
3) Thunder Road
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"In this gamble, more than a few poker chips are at stake. When an Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down-on-his-luck former Ranger Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a sizable gambling debt to a local mobster. The search takes Sharp from the hideaway poker rooms of Fort Worth's Thunder Road, to the barren ranch lands of New Mexico, to secret facilities...
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Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay's dream is about to become New York's nightmare.
Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed...
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From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2. 3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one...
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DEAD GIRL BLUES"It's been a long time since I read anything this hard-hitting and thought-provoking. DEAD GIRL BLUES is daringly original, both shocking and brilliantly told. At a time when many crime novels blend together, Grandmaster Lawrence Block again shows he's a one-of-a-kind author. " ~ David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine ArtYou might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block's new novel is not for everyone....
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Is someone systematically killing the judges of the B.C. bar? At least one has been, murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this time defending his former nemesis, backwoods poet Cudworth Brown, and tracking down a mystery novel that Brown's unreliable former lawyer has been, writing, all this just as his own wife, Margaret, has announced her candidacy for the Green Party in...
8) Snitch World
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
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Independently wealthy Gonzalez "Gonzo" Phipps believes someone is out to kill him. And he wants to hire Stern Talbot to put a stop to it.
Of course, Stern is always hungry for a new client. But at what cost?
Something about the diminutive Mr. Phipps seems a little off-kilter, and Stern can't quite figure it out.
Is the guy affiliated with the mob? Is he in trouble with them?
But his greatest fear seems to be police involvement, yet he loudly...
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Jackson Blast is a down-on-his-luck private investigator. His now ex-wife learned about an affair he was having with her sister, and that left him divorced and broke. Erratic income from his detective agency compelled an old friend, a VP, at a bank with a big turnover of personnel, to send him the bank's employment placement business. That was the beginning of the Blast Detective / Employment Agency, and the 'Every Other Day Detective'.
11) Edge City
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Edge City, from the author of Low Bite, takes place in an every-noir-city (a thinly veiled portrait of San Francisco's North Beach), and its newest resident is Reno, an angry fledgling just hatched out of prison. Getting out is like a weird dream, and the streets of the City are a muddle of sensations pooling around her.
First, there's the bustle-everybody busy with mysterious businesses-an amplifying racket of choices. Staggering out onto the late...
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An anoymous tip has led a hard-boiled detective and two deputies into the desert on a recovery operation.
The overwhelming solitude lends the scene an air of remorse and quiet reverence. Lost in his thoughts, the detective draws parallels between violence on a massive scale and the ability of life to endure.
13) Soft Money
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Even the best cops burn out. 23 Shades of Black's Filomena Buscarsela returns, having traded in her uniform for the trials of single motherhood. Once a cop, always a cop. She may have left the department, but Filomena's passion for justice burns as hot as ever. And when, the owner of her neighborhood bodega is murdered-just another "ethnic" crime that will probably go unsolved and unavenged-Filomena doesn't need much prodding from the dead man's grieving...
14) El Violador
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Este es un relato crudo, realista, objetivo y sin ninguna clase de sensacionalismos, de un gamberro que viola a una pequeña niña de seis años, tras lo cual, este delincuente pasa a vivir el resto de su vida en las peligrosas cárceles uruguayas, y termina sus días internado en un hospital psiquiátrico.
El hecho de que el autor de esta novela, Ernesto Thomas González (1968), le haya puesto su propio nombre a este personaje motivó una verdadera...
15) The Underbelly
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White ex-convict Cal Winter returns to his home in Oakland, California, one day to find his gorgeous, young, black wife, Prudence, drowned in the swimming pool. Prudence couldn't swim, and Cal concludes she didn't go in the water willingly. Though theirs was a marriage of convenience, he takes the murder personally. Along with his prison homie Red Eye, Cal sets out to find out who did Prudence in. His convoluted and often darkly humorous journey takes...
16) Pike
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Douglas Pike is no longer the murderous hustler he was in his youth, but reforming hasn't made him much kinder. He's just living out his life in his Appalachian hometown, working odd jobs with his partner, Rory, hemming in his demons the best he can. And, his best seems just good enough until his estranged daughter overdoses and he takes in his twelve-year-old granddaughter, Wendy.
Just as the two are beginning to forge a relationship, Derrick Kreiger,...
17) Night Watch
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A classic military romance from a genre veteran
When U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Wes Skelly was sent to L.A. on assignment, he agreed to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After all, he had been secretly in love for years, albeit with a woman who belonged to another man. So, what did he have to lose?
Plenty, it turned out. Because suddenly, the woman he thought he could never have was available....
18) 180 segundos
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Zico, el jefe de una pequeña banda de ladrones, que hace robos elaborados utilizando tecnología y tácticas particulares, decidió que es hora de retirarse. Impulsado por la inminente salida del país de su hermana Angélica, planea un último robo perfecto antes de marcharse con ella. Para llevarse un millón de dólares producto de un negocio de cambio de moneda, necesitará de una estrategia perfecta y un equipo afilado: su hermana Angélica,...
19) La opción B
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Un autobús que va de Lisboa a Oporto cae al Duero. Mueren todos los ocupantes. También el narrador, un hombre que se dedica al narcotráfico y que pretende retirarse del negocio. Así, sin respiro, empieza La opción B. Es la historia de Carlos, un chico normal que pasa de consumir drogas como diversión de fin de semana a trabajar para diversas organizaciones criminales, en un recorrido vital que le llevará de Madrid a Estados Unidos, Nicaragua,...
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In this sequel to Kings Row, Parris Mitchell is definitely the proponent of the story - and not Kings Row itself. Parris has achieved his goal as psychiatrist (still a young profession in the Midwest of the First World War) in his hometown hospital - but he is still somewhat in need of his own medicine, as he tries to rationalize his marriage with Elise, emotionally a child-wife. Kings Row seems still to have a predominant percentage of abnormal personalities,...
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