Fiction - Crime

GIUSEPPE VAZANNO is one of the wealthiest and most beloved landowners in 1911, post-feudal Sicily. His lemon orchards provide work for the Sicilian peasants, a rich life for his brothers and their families, and a peaceful oasis for his wife Maria and their two...

The last of the Wolf family dynasty is long dead; their cache of gold eagle coins lost forever-right?Author: Robert C. MowryISBN-10: 1630479438ISBN-13: 9781630479435Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2016Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d

ilis from the Flats is a hard-nosed but tender chronicle of flawed characters, bad choices, and contemporary Dublin life.This Irish novel of scandal and substance abuse follows the exploits of Tommy Baker, a veteran journalist; James Tierney, a researcher at Empire Television; Jimmy Heffernan,...

"The Nappers is a saga about an East Harlem, New York, gangster who comes up with a lucrative, if dangerous idea of kidnapping his fellow gangsters. It is also the story about the collapse of the mob, which turns out to have been caused...

Bill Brown is a savvy, mostly honest L. A. cop who flees to Dallas after an investigation into corruption targets some of his off-duty organized crime gambling buddies. When his life is threatened to keep him quiet, Bill buys a bus ticket, and stumbles...

A hard-boiled mystery story featuring Stuart Bailey, tougher than a ten-minute egg. Violence, blackmail and a beautiful dame who suddenly turned up very, very dead. The book was the basis of the film entitled "I Love Trouble" with James Carter and Janet Blair. First...

He pulled her close to him and kissed her gently. "I don't think so," he said. It was no longer important that Erica had been Ivan's mistress. He wanted her more than he had ever wanted any woman before. He let his hands slip...

She traded hope of heaven for a paradise on earth. She was a sprite, a witch, a perpetual temptation to every man, a soul searing torment to herself, and rough was the road she traveled. First published in February 1952.Author: Steve FisherISBN-10: 1627553584ISBN-13: 9781627553582Publisher:...

He knew the way to a girl's heart-and body Alice was sweet, Marie was stacked, Lola was loaded... And Nicky...was willing First published in 1957.Author: Orrie HittISBN-10: 1627551735ISBN-13: 9781627551731Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2013Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

HELP ME FOR GODS SAKE Later the doctors would use these words to decipher the riddle of a perverted killer. Right now, the lipstick scrawl signaled the start of New York's greatest manhunt.Author: Charles EinsteinISBN-10: 1627551158ISBN-13: 9781627551151Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2013Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Her veneer was big city...but one look and you knew that Toni Rassell's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders...

Nicky Weaver is an insurance man with a policy of loving women. Each Monday he goes out to collect money for the insurance he's sold, he conducts business with a bevy of beautiful ladies. Young girls, widows, and the wife of a sketchy artist...

An investigation into a suicide leads to an investigation of murder. Holding's rarest mystery. First published in 1937.Author: Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingISBN-10: 1627551050ISBN-13: 9781627551052Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2013Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Jim Work, a twenty-five year old just out of Korea, arrives on the California coast to attend college on the G.I. Bill, but lands himself in a minor traffic accident that leads to major trouble. Of the two people in the other vehicle, he...

Homicide Johnny West has been called in to solve the murder of Harry Waters whose newspaper columns have ruined many men. But the web of violence grows, and murder follows murder, until Johnny and his co-worker, Penny Lane, find out they are next in...

Is it possible in this day of enlightened justice for a man to be punished twice for the same crime? Double Jeopardy answers this question, at the same time uncovering the greatest of many loopholes in our modern jurisprudence. In this very human but...

On a Caribbean cruise with her older husband, Honey is convinced that the man in the next cabin plans to murder his wife. But why wouldn't anyone believe her? And why has her own husband turned against her?Author: Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingISBN-10: 162755081XISBN-13: 9781627550819Publisher: Black...

There were three witnesses to swear that only Gregory Drake could have been in the back room with Maysie Grey when she was strangled to death. Even Randolph Lee, Drake's defense counsel, thought that his client was guilty. It took two more murders to...

"Several million dollars of that Russian gold is in a numbered account in the Banque du Shebab-Syrie. I know the name of the man who controls that account, as well as untold millions more in numbered accounts in Switzerland. That man is here in...

Originally published in 1943, the retelling of the world of Dutch Schultz. Classic novel later made into the classic Film Noir Force of Evil, with John Garfield.Author: Ira WolfertISBN-10: 1627550399ISBN-13: 9781627550390Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2013Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d

It was the figure of a girl, her arms thrust out to ward off the ripper... her body distorted, rigid with terror... her mouth open in a silent, eternal scream. Originally published in 1949.Author: Fredric BrownISBN-10: 162755033XISBN-13: 9781627550338Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2013Pages: 202Format:...

She was an expensive call girl and spending a night with her came high. But he never figured on a price as high as murder. The photograph did justice to her generous statistics. Any private eye would enjoy tracking her down, and Hal Darling...

There's only one man, along with two loyal friends, who can shake up the entire hood in Chicago.Author: Silk SmoothISBN-10: 1622865758ISBN-13: 9781622865758Publisher: Urban BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2017Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.80h x 4.10w x 0.90d

Duncan Cochrane wanted to be governor... until the murder of his daughter."...a compelling picture of the Windy City when it was still in thrall to the mob and its own unique political machine." Shots MagazineWhen Duncan's daughter is murdered, he blames his own political...

When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and '30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today--after every possible mystery plot has...

Bestselling author William Wood spins this dark, riveting tale of a beloved Sacramento cop killed in a bizarre accident, and the hunt to track down his killer-a fast-paced thriller of murder, deceit, haunting pasts, and one man's dangerous scheme to fight for those he...

Commissario Alec Blume, on leave for health problems, fleeing his partner Caterina and their newborn daughter, retreats to a villa somewhere in central Italy, where he enrolls in a natural remedies class conducted by a young woman named Silvana. But rather than finding comfort,...

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.The Odyssey of Pablo Camino,...

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.The Defining Sea. book two,...

Bobby Decker, a white police officer, arrests a young black burglary suspect one chilly spring night, but can't explain how the suspect's skull was fractured. The elected prosecutor with aspirations of a judicial appointment, claims Decker smashed his skull with a flashlight. Black activists,...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer.Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the...

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...

"We're big fans of music mysteries here at CrimeReads, so I'm psyched for the new Nelson George...A complex mystery that should serve as the perfect quarantine distraction." --CrimeReads, One of the Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020"This dark, rollicking mystery is the fifth in...

Ex-bodyguard D Hunter travels from Brooklyn to Los Angeles to investigate the circumstances surrounding his grandfather's murder in the fourth entry in this series by critic and journalist George...read this for its passionate and unresolved argument about the still-beating heart of R&B.--Kirkus ReviewsGeorge explores...

Many readers will enjoy the peek inside the organization's hierarchy. Also enjoyable is the spirited romance between Doyle and Vicky Stanopolis, his partner in more ways than one. And the surprise ending is a wowser.--Mystery Scene MagazineHeffernan's style harks back to traditional hard-boiled mysteries...The...

"A gripping, gritty, riveting read from cover to cover . . . Highly recommended." --Midwest Book ReviewMazaradi Fox wrote this novel in 2013 during his incarceration at the Orleans Correctional Facility. The Game Don't Change opens when DeMarco Jones escapes from a juvenile detention...

Included in Library Journal's Books That Buzzed at BookExpo America Roundup, the first word on titles and trends from Barbara Hoffert, Editor McGevna's debut novel captures the familiar rhythms of summertime, following young people on the edge of violence.--Kirkus Reviews A serious, searing debut...

Swift, hard-boiled novel...Shadowy zealots exist everywhere, whether in conference rooms or interrogation rooms or--most often--in rooms that can serve as both.--New York Times Book Review Abdoh paints a gripping portrait of a nation awash in violence and crippled by corruption....Captivating.--Publishers Weekly Abdoh...gives readers a...

A gritty, fast-paced tale of revenge...Tight, terse prose harkens back to pulp fiction of the 1950s...The work is a breath of fresh air from lengthy, trying-too-hard-to-shock street lit and is an excellent choice for all metropolitan collections.--Library Journal (starred review, Pick of the Month)...

New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe takes you on the ultimate twist-filled ride with her Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart series. For two restless women looking for satisfaction, too much of a good thing is never enough--even as a lethal passion closes in ....

S. Gagliano & Son has been a barber shop fixture in South Philly for decades. Frankie and Michael Gagliano's Italian immigrant father--Luigi to his customers, Papa to his sons--presides over the store, enlisting his children as soon as they're big enough to wield a...

"I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years--longer than I had lived in my homeland--that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit." Liu Qingwu doesn't...

"The place seemed to be filling up with uniformed cops. I felt trapped. I shrugged and headed for the door. Suddenly I wasn't as much angry as plain tired. All I wanted was to get out of this rat trap, return to Rose and...

BY DAY-A PART-TIME SECRETARY BY NIGHT-A FULL-TIME PLAYGIRL "How long ago was that?" he asked. In the glow of the match her face seemed almost too angelic to be real. An angelic call-girl, he thought. "About a year ago," she told him. "But it...

A MAN WITH A CRAVING HE COULD NEITHER ACCEPT OR DESTROY Jeff Stoner was a cop who kept the law during the day. But the night drove him into whiskey-drenched rooms and the arms of a redhead -any redhead. He couldn't resist the feel...

Alex Roth is a musician who thumbs it out for L.A. and the woman of his dreams. Things hit a snag when a bookmaking driver Alex flags down suddenly ends up dead. With its tight, crisp writing comparable to James M. Cain and Chandler,...

"Ed Lin's Incensed is a stylish, smart thriller for the mind, heart, and gut. Sex, music, history, politics, food, humor, and just a touch of violence and death--you get it all. And when you're done, you'll beg for more." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

This harrowing mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt through Manila for a brutal serial killer Payatas, a 50-acre dump northeast of Manila's Quezon City, is home to thousands of people who live off of what...

Quick-talking burglar Junior Bender gets blackmailed into starting a new career as a private investigator for crooks in this hilarious Hollywood mystery Junior Bender, a burglar with a magic touch, is being blackmailed into taking on a new freelance job. One of LA's biggest...

Garry Disher's cool, enigmatic anti-hero Wyatt has a job--a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Nothing extravagant, nothing greedy. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but...