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61) Blood standard
Author
Series
Isaiah Coleridge novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnams' Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
62) Prophet
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three police officers, all crooked in their own way, investigate the murder of one of their own: Julie Owen has been brutally slain, but can the detectives find the cop killer without revealing their own dark secrets? A gritty and timely procedural exploring flawed characters behind the badge.
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-134
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable crime. An unforgettable novel. Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out -- and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era. On the 30th anniversary...
65) Dry county
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Weatherford is a successful small-town preacher in the Arkansas Ozarks. He's a proud husband and father of five, and has worked hard to grow his loyal flock with strong sermons and smart community outreach. But while Weatherford is a man of influence and power--and a big force in local politics--he's also a man with secrets. In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, Weatherford's world is threatened when he's blackmailed by a former...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Myles's courtroom testimony should have put Pryor, their one-eyed ringleader, behind bars after the bank robbery gone wrong, yet somehow Pryor got off scot-free while Myles served time. Now, upon his release, Myles decides he is done with his life of wrongdoing-a change that will only be possible if he can kill Pryor and turn over a new leaf. Pryor has other ideas, and the collision between these two deadly forces soon leaves the ex-con in critical...
67) Hard cash valley
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-arson investigator for McFalls County, Dane has lived his life in one of the most chaotic and crime-ridden regions of the south. When he gets called in to consult on a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida, motel room, he and his FBI counterpart, Special Agent Roselita Velasquez, begin an investigation that leads them back to the criminal circles of his own backyard....
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With gimlet eyed cool and razor sharp wit, The Low Desert explores both the depravity and humanity at the heart of Tod Goldberg's critically acclaimed gangster universe, first introduced in Gangsterland, continued in Gangster Nation, and expanded here with all-new and returning characters. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A compelling and compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel that follows a hard-drinking PI accused of a murder he didn't commit--or did he? Eddie King wakes up one morning with a splitting headache to find two cops in his room, who begin questioning him about the murder of a man named Walter Morris, a writer of pulp detective novels. Thus begins this novel about a Chandleresque detective accused of a murder he didn't commit. In...
Author
Publisher
Talos Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"To some people, Pinnacle City is a glittering metropolis, a symbol of prosperity watched over by the all-star superhero team the Pinnacle City Guardians. But beneath the glitz and glamor is a gritty underbelly, one still feeling the physical and economic damage of the superhero-villain battles of generations past, where the lower class--immigrants, criminals, aliens, sorcerers, and non-humans alike--jostles and elbows for scraps to scrape by. Private...
71) Blood relations
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Who is Claire Gravesend? So PI Lee Crowe wonders when he finds her dead, in a fine cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire's mother, Olivia, is one of the richest people in California. She doesn't believe the coroner: her daughter did not kill herself. Olivia hires Crowe, who--having just foiled a federal case against a cartel kingpin--is eager for distraction. But the questions about the...
Author
Series
Nightside series volume 8
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy 'Two Toes' Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars, a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir, are on the hustle: they're trying to open a driving school for Chinatown residents; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous head of the S.F.P.D. vice squad; all while Sammy's girlfriend,...
74) Hap and Leonard
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Joe R. Lansdale's popular Texan crime-fighting duo are immortalized in this complete collection of Hap and Leonard short stories and tall tales. Additionally, you'll find one brand-new story and an original introduction by New York Times bestselling author Michael Koryta (So Cold the River)."--Amazon.com.
75) Little Siberia
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A man is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the treasure is temporarily placed in a neighborhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel. But Joel has a lot more on his mind than simply protecting the riches that have apparently...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Mark Haines's former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man--until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he's marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash--two cynical...
77) The donut legion
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she's running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as 'The Saucer People'; a space-age, evangelist cult...Along with his brother Felix...Charlie...
78) Just thieves
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A down and dirty gem of a tale--a twisty and twisted crime novel that evokes the worlds of George V. Higgins, Patricia Highsmith, and David Mamet, destined to be a Neo-noir classic. Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves. They do not steal randomly - - they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they're tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates...
Author
Series
Trilogía de la ciudad blanca volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Vitoria, 2019. Los señores del tiempo, una novela ambientada en el Medievo, se publica bajo un misterioso seudónimo: Diego Veilaz. Victoria, 1192. Diago Vela retorna a su villa después de dos años en una peligrosa misión encomendada por el rey Sancho VI y se encuentra a su hermano Nagorno desposado con la que era su prometida, la intrigante Onneca de Maestu. Unai López de Ayala, Kraken, se enfrenta a unos deconcertantes muertes que son idénticas...
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