Fiction - Crime

Dan is a con man and a drifter just looking for a ride east. A strange woman in a business suit picks him up on the highway, and soon they're going 70-miles-an-hour and she's got a gun pointed at his head. Instead of shooting...

Joe Collins used to be Joey Connolly, alias Joey Kotex, an infamous enforcer for the Petucci crime family. He left that world behind to run a blues club in Chicago, but Carl Petucci finds Joe and forces him to do one last job. Joe's...

Gary Chance is a former Australian army driver, ex-bouncer and thief. His latest job takes him to Surfers Paradise, Queensland, working for aging standover man, Dennis Curry. Curry runs off-site, non-casino poker games, and wants to rob one of his best customers, a high...

Beatlemania is back and better than even in this revised second edition. Former teen idol Sandy Fairfax finds that making a comeback can be murder It's been fourteen years since the pop star broke little girls' hearts on the 1970s hit TV show Buddy...

First published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie's first novel. It introduced the world to Hercule Poirot, Christie's Belgian detective, who would go on to be featured in 39 of her novels. The mystery begins with the death of Emily...

On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving children are caught in the middle of a custody battle between their well-intentioned neighbor and their...

In 2010, The Killer Wore Cranberry showed how funny murder and food could be.In 2012, Untreed Reads presented a new installment of the worldwide, bestselling anthology (The Killer Wore Cranberry: A Second Helping) proving that this was a hilarious mystery anthology with legs. Drumsticks,...

It's here -- USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton's newest Samantha Sweet cozy mystery. With nearly 2 million books sold and downloaded in more than 60 countries, find out what the fuss is all about Breaking into another house, creating chocolates worth $200 a...

Native American psychologist Ben Pecos has returned to the New Mexico pueblo of his birth as an intern with the Indian Health Service. Still struggling with the demons of his past, he is plunged into the nightmare rampage of a mysterious illness that is...

26 stories from 1901 to 1922 by Albert Payson Terhune, author of Lad: A Dog. Contents: A Lightning Change (Lippincott's Magazine, July 1901); A Park Row Galahad (Lippincott's Magazine, September 1902); Drunk or Crazy? (Argosy, March 1910); Back to the Wickiup (Argosy, June 1912);...

27 stories from 1900 to 1919 by Albert Payson Terhune, author of Lad: A Dog. Contents: Introduction by Anthony Tollin; The Beat that Failed (Lippincott's Magazine, November 1900); The Seal of Silence (Lippincott's Magazine, January 1902); She and the Monster (Argosy, October 1908); A...

A SINGLE BULLET FIRED IN ANGER; A COMMUNITY OUTRAGED BY THE ACQUITTAL, AND A SECRET MORE DEADLY THAN THE CRIME . . ."HE CONFESSED BUT WAS ACQUITTED." THE VERDICT SENT A SHOCKWAVE THROUGH THE COMMUNITY."I'm not making any accusations," Gavin finally said."Well, it sounds...

The hustle doesn't stop...it simply keeps going. That adage is put to the test when Lorenzo Watson sinks knee-deep in the everyday struggle of life. The bills pile up and Lorenzo is pushed to his limits to stay legal. He feels the lure to...

The Black Senate is an epic story of a new breed of gangstas living under a new g-code of street laws. Jerusalem Williams and his two comrades, along with their war princess Pinky are known on the streets as the three Kings and the...

Their face off is inevitable, but neither man knows exactly when it will happen. Antonio ""Ameen"" Felder is an irresistible force destined to collide with an immovable object in Khadafi Fuller. They were once friends, bound by blood and sacrifice, but now they are...

World's collide, and unlikely alliances form when a 14-year-old girl, who has lived her entire life in one of Mexico's infamous garbage dumps, becomes the key figure in a shady land deal involving a corrupt bishop. An unassuming priest searches for the girl, while...

"A rare, hopeful crime story that also manages to be deeply honest." - Kirkus Reviews "The book reads like a memoir, has action and excitement like a thriller, and educates the reader along the way. If you like books with a criminal nexus or...

The offspring of a profligate scoundrel and a drunken circus performer, Aleck Severn was born inside a prison's walls after his mother stabbed his father to death. Severn shows no outward signs of inheriting his parents' faults: a handsome, affable man about town, he...

Desperate to escape living with her miserly uncle, Marjorie Easton eagerly accepts a job offer from the strange Michael Crispin despite knowing nothing of the employment except that it is well-paid and includes some kind of research. Much to her surprise, the "research" involves...

When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the family's fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they won't...

A collection of extraordinary riveting and thought provoking stories from Edgar and Anthony award nominee Patricia Abbott that explore the dark side of human behavior. A daughter finds a way to save a mother who no longer knows her name. A father eases his...

"A Dan Brown read-alike tailor-made for an election year." --Booklist A President is murdered. A First Lady demands answers. And a young Senator will uncover a conspiracy that threatens to upend the global balance of power. When Robert Constable, President of the United States,...

NOMINATED FOR THE ANTHONY AWARD Reminds me of a young Quentin Tarantino. Pruitt is one of our best Southern fiction writers. --Bookreporter Meet Jack Jordan. He's a smooth-talking con artist with a penchant for the fast life. He's snuck into Lufkin, Texas, in the...

"A Dan Brown read-alike tailor-made for an election year. --Booklist A President is murdered. A First Lady demands answers. And a young Senator will uncover a conspiracy that threatens to upend the global balance of power. When Robert Constable, President of the United States,...

Ash McKenna used to be an amateur P.I.--emphasis on 'amateur'. Despite good intentions, he made a mess of his life in New York, so tried to build a new one in Portland. But after a traumatic turn of events, he ends up on a...

Chaos? Or fate? What brought you here? Were the choices yours, or did something outside of you conspire to bring you to this place? Because out in the woods, in a box buried in the ground, there is a little girl who has no...

It's time to save Manhattan.An NYPD detective is always on duty. Erin O'Reilly is just settling down for a drink with her favorite gangster, celebrating her promotion to Detective Second Grade, when she hears the call every cop dreads: "Officer down." Soon Erin and...

Two killers are prowling Manhattan. It's double duty for Erin and Rolf.A detective doesn't always have the luxury of giving all her attention to just one case. Erin O'Reilly and her K-9 partner, Rolf, have just started to sink their teeth into their latest...

Not everyone who comes to America arrives by choice.A man and a teenage girl are found dead in a bullet-riddled motel room. Evidence points to the Russian Mafia. This isn't the first time Erin O'Reilly has tangled with organized crime, but she isn't prepared...

Slaughter County; the name conjures up all sorts of disturbing images. In reality, nothing noteworthy ever happens in this quiet hamlet - not if you're a homicide detective anyway.Not until that fateful autumn evening ...The midnight sky was pitch-black, save for a sliver of...

The Hound of the BaskervillesBy A. Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is...

Ike Caudine would become a violent criminal, even kill, to be with Mary, but could he ever be faithful? After Mary leaves him, Ike turns to his childhood friend, Fritz Moeller, for an idea to impress her and win her back. He soon finds...

Chesterton's "The Crimes Of England" was written in 1916 and needs to be read, and perhaps forgiven, as a product of the Great War. The "crimes" in the title are essentially an ironic reference. Most of the "crimes" Chesterton relate to the preceding three...

It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to the present time he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had come to despair of ever publishing the most curious...

Alex Roth is a musician who thumbs it out for L.A. and the woman of his dreams. Things hit a snag when a bookmaking driver Alex flags down suddenly ends up dead. With its tight, crisp writing comparable to James M. Cain and Chandler,...

They Gave Him Back His Badge, and Sent Him Down Into the Brutal Throbbing Heart of the Slums. Crooked ex-cop Corey Bradford turns out to be an ideal candidate for an underground police unit known as the Night Squad. First published 1961.Author: David GoodisISBN-10:...

Only one man could satisfy Glorie Leadler's craving for love and affection. And though this golden-haired bit of feminine dynamite could have had a dozen men at her feet for the asking, it was a solitary Oriental who made her heart beat fast. When...

Originally published in 1943, the retelling of the world of Dutch Schultz. Classic novel later made into the classic Film Noir Force of Evil, with John Garfield.Author: Ira WolfertISBN-10: 1515426157ISBN-13: 9781515426158Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 376Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

"Several million dollars of that Russian gold is in a numbered account in the Banque du Shebab-Syrie. I know the name of the man who controls that account, as well as untold millions more in numbered accounts in Switzerland. That man is here in...

Alley Girl is a hard book, cold and cruel, peopled with toughs and alcoholics, a nymphomaniac and an unfaithful wife, a savage cop and a young pervert. It is also a fine novel, written with rare and stark simplicity by the talented Jonathan Craig.Author:...

He could remember the gun in his hand, the man in front of him, the shock of the explosion, and then the blood. He could remember the flight though the woods, and the satchel with the money, and now the gang of killers, closing...

This collection includes: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - The Christmas Babe by Margaret E. Sangster - A Western Christmas by Mrs. W.H. Corning - Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Irving Bacheller - Angela's Christmas by Julia Schayer - The First Puritan...

Boston Blackie isn't afraid of stepping over onto the wrong side of the law. A former jewel thief and safe cracker, a hardened criminal having served time in a California prison, he knows a lot about crime. He's an "enemy to those who make...

Arsene Lupin, accused of murder, heads the police investigation to clear himself by finding the true killer First published in 1919, 813 is one of the very best Lupin novels.Author: Maurice LeBlancISBN-10: 151542538XISBN-13: 9781515425380Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 310Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Johnny had a passkey to all the hotel rooms. He wasn't looking for murder, but he found it-and worse On the streets of a big city people smile and the fights are bright. But there is an altey world of darkness, double-dealing and death;...

Raw, grisly and explosive Reporter Nick Mason witnesses an execution and gains a clue from the condemned man, sending Nick into a network of crime and murderAuthor: James Hadley ChaseISBN-10: 1515425312ISBN-13: 9781515425311Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 174Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Duncan Maclain is in Tampa with his wife, Sybella, and his partner, Spud Savage and his wife, Rena, to visit with old friends and investigate a murder. It has been seven years since his old friend, Ronald Dayland, Sr. had been murdered. The killer...

If you're Toussaint Moore, a private investigator from New York City, and a Negro, framed in your own city for a white man's murder, you are going to find it tricky sledding in a small Ohio town, close to the Kentucky border. But the...

A hard-boiled mystery story featuring Stuart Bailey, tougher than a ten-minute egg. Violence, blackmail and a beautiful dame who suddenly turned up very, very dead. The book was the basis of the film entitled "I Love Trouble" with James Carter and Janet Blair. First...

From the creator of Charlie Chan Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an "Agony Column" in the newspaper (what Americans would call the "Personals").Author: Earl Derr BiggersISBN-10:...