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by Walter Mosley - Fiction, Mystery

As his own life unravels, Leonid McGill investigates a complex case. Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man in bed with her friend. Zella didn't remember shooting him, but she didn't deny it either. And the police found $80,000 from a recent heist hidden in her storage space.

by Walter Mosley - Fiction

 

Ninety-one-year-old Ptolemy has sunk into a lonely dementia. But when a doctor offers him a new drug that guarantees he won’t live to see 92, but that he’ll spend his last days in total mental clarity, Ptolemy discovers a shocking and unexpected past.

by Christa Faust - Fiction, Hard-boiled Crime Fiction

Angel Dare went into Witness Protection to escape her past --- not as a porn star, but as a killer who took down the sex slavery ring that destroyed her life. But sometimes the past just won't stay buried.

by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Begun by mystery master Mickey Spillane in the late 1960s and completed four decades later by his friend Max Allan Collins, THE CONSUMMATA follows Morgan the Raider in a breathtaking chase to retrieve a huge sum of money stolen from the struggling Cuban exiles who rescued him. 

edited by Otto Penzler - Fiction, Holiday, Mystery, Short Stories

Each year, for the past 17 years, Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler has commissioned an original Christmas story by a leading suspense writer. These stories were then produced as pamphlets and given to customers of the bookstore as a Christmas present. Now, all 17 tales have been collected in one volume.

by Max Allan Collins - Fiction, Mystery

After enigmatic hit man Quarry killed his cheating wife's lover, he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer. What he didn't expect was ever running into his ex again...

Lawrence Block, writing as Jill Emerson - Fiction, Hard-boiled Crime Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

So this girl walks into a bar... and when she walks out, there’s a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better.

by Lawrence Block - Fiction, Mystery

Forced out of the NYPD, Matthew Scudder has given up the drink. Then he runs into "High-Low" Jack Ellery, a childhood friend. Scudder once solved crimes as a detective. Ellery committed them. Then Ellery is killed, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins. Is it what he saw or what he said that got him killed? 

by Pete Hamill - Fiction, Thriller

As much a thriller as it is a gripping portrait of the city of today, TABLOID CITY is a new fiction classic from the writer who has captured it perfectly for decades.