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  Jack Taylor: Book 1

  The Guards

  by Ken Bruen

  Praised by critics around the globe, The Guards introduces Jack Taylor, a disgraced ex-cop battling boredom and addiction on the gritty Galway streets. Still mourning the decades-old death of his father, stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana-The Guards, Ireland's police force-and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack has nothing to look forward to. Nothing,... (more)
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  Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro: Book 4

  Gone, Baby, Gone

  by Dennis Lehane

  The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately... (more)
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  Elvis Cole, P.I.: Book 2

  Stalking the Angel

  by Robert Crais

  Hired by a hotel magnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole encounters the notorious Yakuza, the Japanese Mob, and is drawn into a game of sexual obsession, amorality, and evil. Reprint.
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  Elvis Cole, P.I.: Book 1

  The Monkey's Raincoat

  by Robert Crais

  Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year. Crais, a VP at Paramount, was previously head script writer for Quincy, Hill Street Blues, and Cagney and Lacey.
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  Matthew Scudder Mysteries: Book 13

  Even the Wicked

  by Lawrence Block

  Matthew Scudder knows that justice is an elusive commodity in the big city, where a harmless man can be shot dead in a public place criminals fly free through holes in a tattered legal system. But now a vigilante is roaming among the millions, executing those he fees deserve to die. He calls himself "The Will of the People"--an ingenious serial killer who announces his specific murderous intentions to the media... (more)
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  Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro: Book 3

  Sacred

  by Dennis Lehane

  The master of the new noir , Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel. A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's... (more)
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  Elvis Cole, P.I.: Book 6

  Sunset Express

  by Robert Crais

  Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife’s brutal murder. But he’s not going down without spending a bundle of cash on his defense. So his hotshot attorney hires P.I. Elvis Cole to find proof that Detective Angela Rossi tampered with the evidence. Rossi needs a way back to the fast track after falling hard during an internal investigation five years ago. But Cole needs to know if she’s... (more)
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  Elvis Cole, P.I.: Book 4

  Free Fall

  by Robert Crais

  Private detective Elvis Cole takes Jennifer Sheridan's case, which involves her decorated Los Angeles-cop boyfriend in some mysterious trouble, and Cole and his partner Pike are soon plunged in police corruption, gangs, and the depiction of themselves as armed killers. Reprint.
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  Elvis Cole, P.I.: Book 3

  Lullaby Town

  by Robert Crais

  Hollywood's newest wunderkind, director Peter Alan Nelsen, hires private eye Elvis Cole to track down the airhead wife and infant child Nelsen abandoned on his way to the top. Reprint. NYT.
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  Matthew Scudder Mysteries: Book 14

  Everybody Dies

  by Lawrence Block

  Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life.The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore. Then all hell breaks loose. Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present is a... (more)
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  Frequent Flyer

  by Kinky Friedman

  Kinky Friedman--the New York-based, wisecracking, hard-living, cigar-smoking, reluctant sleuth--stumbles upon adventure once again in his search for an apparently dead friend from the past.
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  Elvis Cole, P.I.: Book 5

  Voodoo River

  by Robert Crais

  Hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to find the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years earlier, Los Angeles private eye Elvis Cole becomes suspicious when other investigators searching for Jodie's parents are killed. Reprint. PW.
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 2

  The Man Who Cast Two Shadows

  by Carol O'Connell

  Brilliant computer hacker and NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory is forced to test the limits of her intelligence when she confronts a deadly killer who strikes close to home in more ways than one. Reprint. K.
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  Matthew Scudder Mysteries: Book 1

  The Sins of the Fathers

  by Lawrence Block

  The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer -- a minister's son -- hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
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  Matthew Scudder Mysteries: Book 3

  In the Midst of Death

  by Lawrence Block

  Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an ambitious d.a. about police corruption. Now he'saccused of murdering a call girl. Matthew Scudder doesn't think Broadfield's a killer, but the cops aren't about to help the unlicensed p.i. prove it -- and they may do a lot worse than just get in his way.
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  Jack Reacher: Book 11

  Bad Luck and Trouble

  by Lee Child

  From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child’s explosive... (more)
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  Matthew Scudder Mysteries: Book 15

  Hope to Die

  by Lawrence Block

  The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole -- one apparently slain by his partner in crime who then took his own life. There's something drawing Matthew Scudder to this case that the cops have quickly and eagerly... (more)
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  Matthew Scudder Mysteries: Book 6

  When the Sacred Ginmill Closes

  by Lawrence Block

  In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving.
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  Bill Smith/Lydia Chin: Book 3

  Mandarin Plaid

  by S. J. Rozan

  It's a long way from the cramped, dreary sweatshops where Lydia Chin's mother once sewed for the heady world of fashion. But in New York City, worlds collide. And a petite, Chinese-American P.I. can still rub shoulders with the rich, the poor, the beautiful, and the depraved. Elegant, porcelain-skinned Genna Jing is sure her latest designs are worth a fortune. That's why she is willing to pay the fifty grand... (more)
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  Spellman Mysteries: Book 1

  The Spellman Files

  by Lisa Lutz

  Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her family's firm, Spellman Investigations.... (more)