Browsing: Hard-Boiled Mysteries

After several grisly murders in Cocoa Beach, Jack Ryder begins an investigation to find the killer — a grudge-holding butcher with a taste for pretty women. A gritty and dark thriller.

From a New York Times bestselling author: When private eye Spenser goes looking for a kidnapped teenager, his mission leads him into the Maine wilderness — and into a suspenseful fight for survival… “One of the great series in the history of the American detective story” (The New York Times).

A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot…

A New York Times bestseller from “a brilliant novelist” (Gillian Flynn) who “writes like a dream” (Stephen King): Baltimore reporter Tess Monaghan must use her intimate knowledge of the city to help a friend accused of a high-profile murder. Book one in a series.

In Gone, Baby, Gone, the master of the new noir, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter…

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River: Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro take on a seemingly straightforward missing persons case — only to have it lead to a tangled web of murder and corruption. “Harsh and chilling… Absolutely terrific” (The Boston Globe).

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado…

Crime fiction writer George Pelecanos introduces Spero Lucas, an anti-hero making his place in the world one battle at a…

A “well-written, fast-paced” New York Times bestseller (The Boston Globe): When his long-lost father is found dying in an alley, private investigator Elvis Cole stumbles upon a web of mysteries that sends him deep into his own past. “Robert Crais is a crime writer of incredible talent” (Dan Brown).

From a New York Times bestselling author hailed as “a genius” (Lee Child) and “one of the all-time greats” (Karin Slaughter): Private eye V.I. Warshawski looks into a tragic death at a hospital — only to discover a string of sinister killings and a startling cover-up.