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1) Resume speed
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A new town, a fresh start. A chance to escape old demons. Or meet new ones. He got on the Trailways bus in Galbraith, North Dakota, booked all the way through to Spokane. But the Help Wanted sign at the diner in Cross Creek was calling his name. Soon, he had a job working in the grill and a place to stay, and a new name to go with them. But what he didn't have was peace of mind. Or a clear conscience. Or any memory at all of what he'd done the night...
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Block's short stories are intelligent and respectful of the reader yet often take an unexpected turn. He plays fair. If you reread the story, you'll find that he left you little clues about the final destination but didn't connect the dots. Block is a master of the long-form mystery, and this collection proves he's got the short form locked down as well.
3) Hit and run
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Fingered for a murder he didn't commit, a hit man goes on the run to save his life.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dark Harvest
Pub. Date
[1992], ©1976
Language
English
Description
A private detective who was a cop for fifteen years, investigates the savage murder of a Greenwich Village hooker supposedly killed by her homosexual roommate.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Bookseller and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr travels to New England to spend a weekend in a mansion where he hopes to steal a rare book. But his scheme is sidetracked by the murder of one of the guests and the burglar turns sleuth.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
A New York killer who signs himself as Will of the People is murdering criminals who have escaped punishment through technicalities of the law. PI Matt Scudder goes after him. By the author of A Long Line of Dead Men.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
©1986
Language
English
Description
Already at work on two dangerous cases, Matthew Scudder, the down-and-out, hard-drinking ex-cop, becomes personally involved when the wife of a friend is brutally murdered.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
While robbing an apartment, Bernie Rhodenbarr, the New York bookseller and burglar, stumbles on the trail of a treasure belonging to the deposed monarch of an Eastern European country. Problem is, others are after it too. By the author of The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Dark Harvest
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
When "the Spinner" turns up dead in the East River, Matt Scudder goes into action because the Spinner had paid Scudder in advance to find his killer.
10) Keller's fedora
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Happily retired, Keller takes a job as a private investigator to investigate an adulterous spouse.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
The daytime bookseller and nighttime burglar, Bernie Rhodenbarr of New York is hired to steal a packet of letters someone wants destroyed. Instead, he finds a dead man and now he must clear his name.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 12
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
In New York, members of a private diner's club begin to be murdered one by one and there is nothing to go on, no obvious motive and nothing the victims had in common. PI Matthew Scudder is hired to find the killer. By the author of The Devil Knows You're Dead.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
While investigating the murder of a yuppie lawyer, Scudder is forced to take an unsparing look at his own dark side.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
When ex-cop and longtime investigator Matt Scudder agrees to investigate the suspicious online lover of an acquaintance, he finds that a vicious killer is at work and that he may be the next target.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
©1981
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic ex-cop and private investigator takes a murder case and then is ordered off it by his client, but pursues the case anyway to relieve his own melancholy.
16) Small town
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
The lives of a cast of disparate New Yorkers are touched by a series of killings carried out by a man bereaved by the loss of his wife and children in the Twin Towers who sets out to wreak what he thinks of as a sacrificial vengeance on New York by becoming a terrorist himself.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997], ©1980
Language
English
Description
Bernie Rhodenbarr is surprised to discover that the brownstone he is burglarizing has already been robbed that night, and is even more surprised when a dead body is found there the next day. When the police become interested in the stolen goods that Bernie tries to pawn, and another murder occurs close to home, Bernie is forced to investigate the crimes in order to clear himself of the murder charge.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Hired by his dentist to steal back some valuable diamonds from his ex-wife, Bernie Rhodenbarr is nearly discoved in the closet, only to become the witness to the woman's murder.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
In Greenwich Village, Bernie Rhodenbarr, the rare book dealer who moonlights as a burglar, is arrested for murder in connection with the robbery of a valuable collection of baseball cards. Only he didn't do it. By the author of Burglars Can't Be Choosers.
20) Borderline
Author
Series
Publisher
Hardcase Crime, published by Titan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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...
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