Fiction - Crime

The Pathfinder is a novel in which West Point graduate Lincoln Davis comes to realize that Vietnamese orphaned girls were not being captured by enemy forces as assumed; rather, they were being forced into an international human trafficking scheme. With the assistance of a...

The warm wind blew through my sun-bleached hair; my eyes watered and ears popped as the trek down the twisting Missouri highway brought back past violent accounts through my mind. The fence posts and passing cars blurred as I cruised at eighty miles an...

Explosive and riveting!"The story moves at a steady clip thanks to brutal and concise confrontations. A riveting but grim and unflinching tale of two assassins." --Kirkus ReviewsIn this dark thriller, gifted but disgraced former FBI special agent Ben Hawkins has a chance to redeem...

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on the exact day of the novel's setting.Centered on the title character, The Confidence-Man...

At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March,...

The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year.The book...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United...

A woman who is suffering from a tragic loss is placed on a jury with her estranged ex-husband.Author: Cai EmmonsISBN-10: 1636280757ISBN-13: 9781636280752Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

A taut thriller set in Florida's desolate panhandle, part coming-of-age story, all hard-boiled noir."Watson evocatively blends the dreamy, hormonally addled banality of teen life with the existential anxieties of lost innocence and regret. Fans of S.E. Hinton's rough-hewn teens and the gothic noir of...

"If you're of a certain age, your perception of South Los Angeles might have been formed by riots and rappers. Or maybe you know it through television . . . But Gary Phillips, who grew up there, has a more historically complex point of...

"If you're of a certain age, your perception of South Los Angeles might have been formed by riots and rappers. Or maybe you know it through television . . . But Gary Phillips, who grew up there, has a more historically complex point of...

The award-winning diva, C, has got a big problem: someone wants her dead. A team of mercenaries attempts to gun her down in Kuala Lumpur. Lucky for her, Lowcountry Private Investigator, Blu Carraway, is already on the job there for a different client.Double-lucky for...

Charles Dameion Ashford III met the threshold to life and death long before it's time. Challenged by a childhood intertwined with dark Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner disasters, his tender connection to the world around him could not prevail. Instead, books became his friends, his...

Zoey James has pimp trouble. And even though he doesn't know it, her pimp has Zoey trouble. Big Zoey trouble. In a dark world of meth addiction, trailer parks and abuse, Zoey has seen it all. But when she and her disabled sister are...

Montana Grace is a powerful story of one woman's journey being trafficked as a child, shedding her past trauma, and stepping into new life through the freedom forgiveness brings.Author: Elizabeth BradshawISBN-10: 1631959271ISBN-13: 9781631959271Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2023Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...

It only takes one moment to change everything. Long ago, Heather left her old life behind. Now, she has everything: a marriage to a handsome executive, a managerial human resources position in a powerful multinational, and a beautiful daughter. And she will do anything...

In 1997, five former black Los Angeles police officers gather for lunch and begin reminiscing about their lives at the 77th Street Division during the 1960s. They remember the riots, the racism, and the discrimination. Two months before the Watts Riot of 1965, one...

Surf, party, and romance take center stage in the breezy novel Blow Out Summer, as a group of local surfers in Huntington Beach, California, enjoy a summertime of hanging out and having fun. Their story takes place in the mid 1970s, when no one...

It was a few minutes before eleven when I unlocked our door. The dumb lamp we had in the two-by-four "foyer" was on. The lamp looked like a drippy flower and cost fifty-seven bucks strictly because it was imported from Denmark. If all their...

Johnny had a passkey to all the hotel rooms. He wasn't looking for murder, but he found it-and worse On the streets of a big city people smile and the fights are bright. But there is an altey world of darkness, double-dealing and death;...

Boston Blackie isn't afraid of stepping over onto the wrong side of the law. A former jewel thief and safe cracker, a hardened criminal having served time in a California prison, he knows a lot about crime. He's an "enemy to those who make...

He stands before the court. The crime: Murder in the First Degree. The victime: his wife. They said he killed her. They didn't say why.Author: Harold R. DanielsISBN-10: 1627551166ISBN-13: 9781627551168Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2013Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

This is the story of three men under pressure-a bank teller, a salesman, and a handyman. They are neither psychopaths not professional criminals, yet together they plan to carry out the most immoral of crimes. You will detest what they do, but you will...

Doan, a chubby, wisecracking private eye, and Carstairs, a Great Dane so huge he ought to be considered a new species, follow a trail of mayhem and confusion from Hollywood to the Mojave Desert town of Heliotrope, a place so thoroughly offensive that neither...

PI Kowalski peels back the layers of a sunny, idyllic Aussie town, and exposes its dark, criminal underbelly.PI Matt Kowalski's first case is personal. Real personal.Clues point him in many directions and at many suspects, and he exposes a horrific crime with devastating consequences,...

Isaac Childs has the perfect life-until that life comes crashing down when his wife Ramie vanishes. WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Contemporary Fiction"Baer writes with guts and sensitivity -- the kind of suspense that turns a reader into a fan. I can't...

Suspended FBI Task Force Agent Dean Wister just wants to heal his wounds and mourn his dead wife. But he's enlisted by Wyoming Presidential candidate, Tom McGraw, to conduct a shadow investigation--a hunt for a piece of evidence that will derail McGraw's candidacy if...

A darkly comic noir about a chicken living in a world of anthropomorphic eggs who's wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Life's tough for an "embry." Considered a vestigial organ at best and a parasite at worst, chicken embryos are usually aborted by...

Crime, corruption, and colonialism--as well as compassion, survival, and dark humor--are woven into The Puerto Rico Trilogy, which consists of three separate character-driven novels that focus on the Caribbean island and its complex political and social relationship with the U.S.Ulysses in San Juan, the...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Peter is intrigued by the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect, and investigates. A noted financier has also gone...

Author: Jay DubyaISBN-10: 1618634518ISBN-13: 9781618634511Publisher: Bookstand PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2013Pages: 602Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.97lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.50d

This final installment of the Dewey Decimal trilogy capably stands alone as a quirky, sparkly read that will embiggen your cerebellum.--Library Journal Larson treats the English language as a sort of toy to play with and use for experimentation; language is not just used...

A Barnes and Noble Mystery Book Club Summer Reading Pick Dewey is a seriously weird dude, obsessed with Purell...and generally trying to survive in a world that's been unraveled from manifold disasters...Whiplash prose, teeth-gnashing dialogue and post-civilization concepts that make a crazy (amateur) librarian...

These two authors penned tales of crime, insanity, and the supernatural. While some stories are lighter in tone (like The Ghost-Ship and The Amazing Hieroglyphics), many leap straight into the darkness via murder and madness. In The Conjurer, a magician finds his trick works...

This volume collects the mystery short stories of two detectives from the early 1900s. Average Jones investigates strange advertisements posted in the newspaper, allowing him to solve puzzles and foil crimes. Dr. Furnivall is human "truth serum," a master hypnotist who gets to the...

Romney Pringle, poor literary agent and avid cyclist, is in truth a conman of the highest caliber. The complete twelve stories are included in this volume. This criminal rogue is a well-deserved member of "Queen's Quorum" of influential and important mystery and crime stories.Author:...

The Confidence-Man (1857) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work. When it was published, The Confidence-Man was seen...

There's no glass slipper in this fairy tale - just a damsel in distress, a bag of cash, and a whole lot of dead bodies.Reporter Ted Lindsay is trying to forget his ex-wife, and New York City's tough streets are just what the doctor...

In this gritty sequel to Murder in the Garden, Palm Beach County Sherriff's Deputy Lydia Martinez is assigned go the brutal rape and murder of a young female volunteer at the prestigious Florida Golf Classic. Evidence collected at the scene coupled with witness statements...

Homicide detective, Walker Haze is about to come to crossroads that identify the truth. A man he believes to be a cold-blooded killer is only beginning his reign of madness. Haze is certain he knows this man, this diabolical killer, who preys on the...

When dental hygienist Rochelle "Ro" Parks is asked to review the case file for a series of murders all involving a bite mark, it becomes increasingly clear that something about this case is wrong. The warmer she gets as she dips deeper into the...

Can anyone truly understand the dark thoughts that reside within the heart of a man who believes that retribution is the only avenue remaining to give him the justice he deserves? Can anyone truly comprehend the circumstances that would cause a man sworn to...

"Move over Lee Child." -Eileen M. Cotto, Amazon Reviewer"A fast-paced, exhilarating thriller set in Beirut." -Kirkus ReviewsBEIRUT, LEBANON, 2020: Home to International Gangsters, Foreign Spies, and Soldiers of Fortune.O'Hara Poit, released early from prison under the pretext of a Covid-19 outbreak, now owes the...

In The Struggle, Uri sets fire to his house by accident right before his bar mitzvah, killing his mother. He will spend many years searching for relief from the guilt that plagues him. His status as a foster kid, his burn scars, and his...

"A grim, competent tale that memorably depicts a world of crime." -Kirkus ReviewsNate, a naive, eighteen-year-old misfit, sets off on a hitchhiking trip to escape bad parenting and the Vietnam draft. He yearns for the acceptance and safety of a tribe and finds them...

"... a well-crafted, enjoyable and intriguing mystery that, for better or worse, is a little heavy on the protagonist's breast-level view of the world." -IndieReaderIt's easy to be a nobody when you've got nothing to lose, but with his life and potential redemption on...

Foreword INDIES FinalistLibrary Journal Pick of the Month. This crime thriller set against the backdrop of a gritty Philadelphia is a rare achievement of noir fiction.Author: Jeff JohnsonISBN-10: 1683367251ISBN-13: 9781683367253Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2017Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81dReview Citation(s): Library Journal...

What happens when real talk gets a little too real? This character-driven saga puts the Office of the Sheriff, known as the Agency, in the crosshairs, as Hands Across the Sea delves behind the badge during the transition of their longtime sheriff, Garrison Cottrell,...