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1) Joyland
Author
Series
Hard case crime book volume HCC-112
Language
English
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 in which both will change his life.
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-150
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." --
As the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor...
3) Later
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume (HCC-147)
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer, who has threatened to strike from beyond the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator's fixer. He's already gotten rid of one troublesome young woman -- how hard could this new one turn out to be? Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old Fanny Cours knows her reputation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hardcase Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1977, aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents, and veteran of countless USO tours to boost morale, is kidnapped by the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army who want to bring their cause back to life.
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-129
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up--about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule--had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste,...
9) Tough tender
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes you bury the past. Sometimes it buries you. Every professional thief knows you never return to the scene of a crime. But what if you have no choice? In this intense heist story - appear in bookstores for the first time in three decades - MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins brings veteran theif Nolan and his young partner in crime Jon back to rob the same bank they targeted in their debut novel, Two For The Money, at the behest of an embezzling...
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-508
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The new collection contains 20 stories, including classics of the genre and rare, little-known gems such as the title story, Bradbury's first published mystery. A number of the stories were adapted by the author for his popular TV series, The Ray Bradbury Theater, and fans of Bradbury's work will recognize his touch with crime stories about circus sideshow performers and ventriloquists' dummies, sunken cathedrals, time travelers, and robots that look...
11) Brothers keepers
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-137
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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...
12) Quarry's list
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime, published by Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target?"--Back cover.
13) Quarry's climax
Author
Series
Publisher
Hardcase Crime
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's 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 Max's career permanently. Only another hit man - the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax - can keep Climer from becoming...
14) Quarry's deal
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime, published by Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Behind the doors of an illegal casino, will Quarry find Lady Luck or a lady killer? As part of his plan to target other hitmen, Quarry follows one from steamy Florida to the sober Midwest. But this killer isn't a man at all -- she's a sloe-eyed beauty, as dangerous in bed as she is deadly on the job. Has Quarry finally met his match?"--Page 4 of cover.
15) Quarry
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Broker deals in murder on the open market with the assistance of a highly paid, precise killer, a young Vietnam veteran named Quarry whose loyalty to his employer is shaken when someone tries to kill him.
16) Sinner man
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-126
Publisher
Hard Case Crime/Titan Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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...?
17) Quarry's blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a true crime novelist announces he's the subject of her next book, Quarry, a professional hitman, must journey into his bloody past to settle old scores as killers come out of the woodwork bent on revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime, published by Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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 hes working for.--page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-121
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2015.
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...
20) Soho sins
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group, Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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