Browsing: Hard-Boiled Mysteries

In Dashiell Hammett’s famous crime novel, we meet one of the detective-story master’s most enchanting creations, Nick and Nora Charles,…

After an elderly woman is murdered in Venice, commissario Guido Brunetti follows a bewildering trail of clues to untangle the case. “An elegant puzzle” (The Washington Post Book World) that “offers many pleasures” (Publishers Weekly).

From a legendary author hailed as “a genius” (Lee Child) and “one of the all-time greats” (Karin Slaughter): Tough Chicago investigator V. I. is hired by a questionable client to locate a missing woman in this gripping read!

When Hap Collins and Leonard Pine seize a chance to get rich quick, they find big trouble in East Texas! A “hilarious” read from “a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country boy wit” (The Washington Post Book World).

This riveting page-turner from a New York Times bestselling author “will keep her readers wanting more” (Kirkus Reviews). When Seattle private eye J. P. Beaumont takes the case of a teen’s murder filmed on a smartphone, his investigation unearths a lethal web of corruption. With over 1,900 five-star Goodreads ratings!

Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They’re not such a big deal, you know. Even when the…

A #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers “pure pleasure from the very first page” (Kirkus Reviews): Elvis Cole hunts for the abandoned wife and son of a hotshot film director — only to become entangled in a case far deadlier than it seems. With nearly 4,000 five-star Goodreads ratings!

James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray…

Book one in a beloved and bestselling series, featuring “the toughest, funniest, wisest private eye in the field” (Houston Chronicle). On the hunt for a rare, stolen manuscript, Boston private detective Spenser stumbles into a far bloodier case when one of the suspects is charged with murder.

From “a legend” (Harlan Coben) of the crime genre hailed as “one of the all-time greats” (Karin Slaughter): Private eye V.I. Warshawski looks into her cousin’s mysterious death on a Lake Michigan dock — only to collide with the dark side of Chicago’s shipping industry.