Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-137
Language
English
Formats
Description
What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make a room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address. Returning to bookstores for the first time in three decades, Brothers Keepers offers not only a master...
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume 140
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times–bestselling author
Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal crime novel of madness and murder is a powerful trip into the mind of a maniac—and features a never-before-seen companion novella.
“Oates’ tale of criminal psychosis draws on the druggy decadence, greed, sexism, and violence of Hollywood in the Charles Manson-Roman Polanski era.”...
Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal crime novel of madness and murder is a powerful trip into the mind of a maniac—and features a never-before-seen companion novella.
“Oates’ tale of criminal psychosis draws on the druggy decadence, greed, sexism, and violence of Hollywood in the Charles Manson-Roman Polanski era.”...
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-148
Language
English
Formats
Description
A South American dictator conceals millions of dollars worth of valuables in a dismantled castle being flown to Paris and a quickly assembled, international gang of thieves--each with national eccentricities--set out to steal the entire castle.
4) Choke hold
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
INSIDE THE WORLD OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS - AND MURDER...
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.
When a former co-staris gunned down, it's up to Angel to get his son, a hotheaded MMA fighter, safely through the unforgiving Arizona desert, shady Mexican bordertowns,...
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.
When a former co-staris gunned down, it's up to Angel to get his son, a hotheaded MMA fighter, safely through the unforgiving Arizona desert, shady Mexican bordertowns,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son.
At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer
who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000...
At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer
who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newspaperman Adam Jordan's byline ran above two big articles in the early editions. One of them got him fired. The other landed him in a job writing true crime pieces for Real detective magazine. The story he's working on now-- a beauty queen found strangled on an Atlantic City beach-- is one that boardwalk power brokers would rather see covered up than covered....
8) Joyland
Author
Series
Hard case crime volume HCC-112
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two identical twin sisters - one a sexually repressed defense attorney, the other a former libertine now living a respectable life in suburbia - are about to have their darkest secrets revealed, to the men in their lives and to themselves. As one sister prepares for the thorniest trial of her career and the other fends off ominous advances from a construction worker laboring on the house next door, both find themselves pushed to the edge, and confronted...
10) Borderline
Author
Series
A hard case crime book volume HCC-115
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide--with fatal results. You'll meet Marty--the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... Meg--the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... Lily--the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... Cassie--the redhead with her own private agenda... and Weaver--the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from...
11) Easy death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twas the night before Christmas... It takes guts and good luck to pull off an armored car robbery, and Walter and Eddie have both. But getting the money and getting away with it are two different things, especially with a blizzard coming down, the cops in hot pursuit, and a double-crossing gambler and a sadistic park ranger threatening to turn this white Christmas blood red"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Hard case crime book volume HCC-121
Language
English
Description
"Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who's looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes... He falls--and falls hard. Soon he's working with her, against his employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from...
13) Quarry
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The assignment was simple: stake out the man's house and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Where does a hit man draw the line?With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate civil rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he's working for.The longest-running series from...
15) Sinner man
Author
Series
Hard case crime book volume HCC-126
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL — LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!
To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
16) SoHo sins
Author
Series
Hard case crime book volume HCC-124
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Portrait in BLOOD
They were the New York art scene’s golden couple — until the day Amanda Oliver was found murdered in her SoHo loft, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But was he a continent away when the trigger was pulled? Art dealer Jackson Wyeth sets out to learn the truth, and uncovers the dangerous secrets lurking beneath the surface of Manhattan’s posh galleries and decadent parties, a world of adultery...
They were the New York art scene’s golden couple — until the day Amanda Oliver was found murdered in her SoHo loft, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But was he a continent away when the trigger was pulled? Art dealer Jackson Wyeth sets out to learn the truth, and uncovers the dangerous secrets lurking beneath the surface of Manhattan’s posh galleries and decadent parties, a world of adultery...
17) Quarry's climax
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Memphis, 1975. zRaunchyy doesnt begin to describe Max Climers magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Maxs career permanently. Only another hit man the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax can keep Climer from becoming a casualty...
18) The last stand
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
ON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY - A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER
When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's...
When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's...
20) Ryuko: vol. 1
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Eldo Yoshimizu's Ryuko is a stunning manga which tells the action-packed story of a no-nonsense, tough, and resourceful woman of the Yakuza. Appearing in the English language for the first time, this dynamic story explores Ryuko's life as she has to deal with the consequences of her past. After a fierce battle with the military, Ryuko's search for the truth about her mother leads her into even more dangerous situations. As deadly enemies attack,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request