Browsing: Hard-Boiled Mysteries

An Anthony Award nominee delivers a dark mystery with “plenty of thrills” (Kirkus Reviews): As agent Matthew Roarke desperately hunts a female serial killer, an unsuspecting father and son befriend a mysterious young woman… With over 2,600 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

A “bright, light, cleverly written tale” (The Cincinnati Post) from an Edgar Award–winning author! Wisecracking ex-journalist Paul Mcdonald must follow a baffling trail of murder when a PI pal is found dead in his living room.

When Archie Goodwin seeks his fortune in New York City, he finds nonstop adventure as assistant to legendary detective Nero Wolfe. “Spot on. Here’s hoping Goldsborough finds a dozen more untold cases as he channels the great Rex Stout” (New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins).

For the last 10 years, Allie’s planned to exact revenge on a serial killer… and she only has one chance. She knows it won’t be easy — because when a murderer and a vigilante collide, only one will survive.

When a billionaire’s son is murdered on his wedding night, Dan Reno is offered a massive bounty to find the killer. Reno needs the reward, but the investigation soon turns deadly, fraught with crooked cops and shady dealings. Will he solve the crime — or become the next victim?

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island: Set in the crime-ridden Prohibition era, this “utterly magnetic novel” (Booklist starred review) chronicles one man’s ascent from common criminal to bootlegging mastermind.

The first novel in Pulitzer Prize-winning Edna Buchanan’s riveting Britt Montero series. Meet Britt Montero, a crime reporter for a…

A DISBARRED ATTORNEY, ILLEGAL GAMBLING, AND A SEXUALLY AGGRESSIVE ‘COUGAR.’ ACTION AND HILARITY ENSUE. Private Investigator Dev Haskell stumbles into…

Fresh off of a prison sentence for art forgery, Liam Quinn lands a job examining insurance claims. But the investigation of a gallery heist pulls him right back into a seedy world of convicts and corruption in this adrenaline-fueled mystery.

What if serial killers had a competition… and you were the prize? Retired FBI profiler Wallace Mack and Nicole Candela, a woman he rescued three years earlier, must go up against the most twisted minds in the world in this chilling thriller.