Hard-Boiled

A hard-boiled story is tougher and grittier than soft- or medium-boiled stories. They often incorporate violence, no-holds-barred descriptions of crime scenes, and sexual encounters. They usually feature a lone-wolf private detective who is cynical yet quixotic. Think Sara Paretsky, Ian Rankin, Raymond Chandler, Michael Connelly, James Elroy, Clyde Ford (The Long Mile).

		Beating the Babushka A Cape Weathers Investigation The Cape Weathers Investigations #2 By: Tim Maleeny Type: Trade Paperback | English | 9780738711157 Price: $14.95 In stock? Yes, ready to ship Quantity: A movie producer hurtles to his death from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, an apparent suicide that shocks the film community and puts a two hundred million dollar production in jeopardy. His... [read more]
		Lost A Novel By: Michelle Hancock Type: Trade Paperback | English | 9780738710365 Price: $13.95 In stock? No, expect a delay in shipping Quantity: What if you had irrefutable proof that Jesus Christ was actually an instrument of the devil? This disturbing knowledge turns Guy "Coffee" Daniels–a brilliant student of ancient languages at... [read more]
		Swapping Paint A Stock Car Racing Mystery Stock Car Racing Mysteries #1 By: Jim Lavene, Joyce Lavene Type: Trade Paperback | English | 9780738710204 Price: $12.95 In stock? Yes, ready to ship Quantity: Glad Wyczhewski lives for three things: NASCAR, cold beer, and his passionate wife, Ruby. Tailing the race circuit in an RV, the newlyweds stop in Concord, North Carolina–just down the road... [read more]
		Proof of Purchase A Jack Grant Mystery The Jack Grant Mysteries #3 By: Richard B. Schwartz Type: Trade Paperback | English | 9780738708294 Price: $14.95 In stock? No, expect a delay in shipping Quantity: Cynthia Bladen has been missing for weeks when private investigator Jack Grant takes the case. This time there is a motivating, if unsettling, force behind the investigation: Cynthia is Jack's... [read more]
		Deuce's Wild The Shango Mysteries The Shango Mysteries #2 By: Clyde W. Ford Type: Trade Paperback | English | 9780738708096 Price: $13.95 In stock? No, expect a delay in shipping Quantity: John Shannon's son J. J. is a huge fan of hip-hop artist Yousef al-Salaam, formerly Deuce F., who recently converted to Sufism, a mystical order of Islam. The popular musician also happens to be on a... [read more]
		The Last Voice You Hear A Jack Grant Mystery The Jack Grant Mysteries #2 By: Richard B. Schwartz Type: Trade Paperback | English | 9780738708300 Price: $14.95 In stock? No, expect a delay in shipping Quantity: A California congressman is impaled on an escalator in a London tube station and a big-shot real estate agent is poisoned on a Disneyland ride. Unusual sword-like murder weapons, public settings, and... [read more]
		Frozen Stare A Jack Grant Mystery The Jack Grant Mysteries #1 By: Richard B. Schwartz Type: Trade Paperback | English | 9780738708287 Price: $13.95 In stock? No, expect a delay in shipping Quantity: Jack Grant, Vietnam vet turned L.A. private eye, spends his days busting small-time insurance defrauders. But his latest client gives him the cold shoulder—literally— when he turns up... [read more]
		The Long Mile The Shango Mysteries The Shango Mysteries #1 By: Clyde W. Ford Type: Trade Paperback | English | 9780738707853 Price: $13.95 In stock? No, expect a delay in shipping Quantity: This gritty detective thriller, set in New York City, relates one African-American man's riveting quest for truth and redemption.Framed for murder during a failed drug bust, former NYPD officer John... [read more]