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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
℗2011
Language
English
Description
Noir contains three classic thrillers by Richard Matheson, the grand master of suspense. Originally published in the 1950s, at the very beginning of Matheson's distinguished career, these page-turning classics are finally on audio for your listening pleasure. Now listeners everywhere can savor three unforgettable tales of crime, corruption, and cold-blooded murder. Someone Is Bleeding Dave Newton has fallen hard for Peggy, a leggy blonde with a lurid...
3) Dry county
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Weatherford is a successful small-town preacher in the Arkansas Ozarks. He's a proud husband and father of five, and has worked hard to grow his loyal flock with strong sermons and smart community outreach. But while Weatherford is a man of influence and power--and a big force in local politics--he's also a man with secrets. In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, Weatherford's world is threatened when he's blackmailed by a former...
4) Drive
Author
Series
Drive novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Driver, a man who makes a living doing stunt driving for films during the day and by driving for criminals at night, finds himself caught in the middle when he is double-crossed by some former partners and is forced to take violent means to protect himself and to seek revenge on his betrayers.
7) The rage
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
A recently-released convict, a discouraged policeman, and a retired nun become involved in planning a high-stakes robbery
Author
Publisher
Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Debut novel about the matriarch of an outlaw community of cannabis farmers in Northern California's Emerald Triangle who goes missing from her home, and the retired journalist and a burned-out cannabis grower who team up to discover what happened"--
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back. An aquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful...
12) Once were cops
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay's dream is about to become New York's nightmare.
Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1963? c1953]
Language
English
Description
First published in 1925, "Manhattan Transfer" by American author John Dos Passos is an engrossing portrayal of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age. Critically acclaimed and widely considered to be his most important work, Dos Passos tells the story of the city as it grows and changes through the perspectives of many of its inhabitants. The city itself is a central character of the novel. It is exciting and glamorous, but...
14) Laidlaw
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Meet Jack Laidlaw, the original damaged detective. When a young woman is found brutally murdered on Glasgow Green, only Laidlaw stands a chance of finding her murderer from among the hard men gangland villains and self-made moneymen who lurk in the city's shadows.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When brutish miner Hugo Mitchum is found murdered on the frozen shore of a North Country lake, the local officials and town gossips of Beau Caelais are quick to blame Marietta Abernathy, outspoken environmental activist and angry, witchy recluse. But Marietta herself has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Living on an isolated island with her father, Marietta's sixteen-year-old daughter, Lena, begins sifting through her mother's journals...
17) February's son
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A man hangs himself in a neighborhood chapel. Bodies of young girls are being found in canals and rivers across the city with high levels of Mandrax in their bloodstream. McCoy is asked to watch over a colleague's niece, who has left home young and is running with a bad crowd in Glasgow. DS Wattie is attempting to become a sergeant. Drugs in Glasgow have got darker and more dangerous. Glasgow, its music and its inhabitants all have rough edges...
18) The letter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1940
Language
None
Description
A woman kills her husband and only a letter she wrote can prove that she did it. Based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig...
20) Sailor
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed novelist of The Kind One and screenwriter of such films as One False Move and The Gift, Tom Epperson brings the violence-soaked world of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and the heroism of Jack Schaefer's Shane together to create an iconic action thriller for the twenty-first century.
Gina fell for the wrong guy. Joe came into her life promising her everything, and he gave it to her, along with a world of hell.
But Gina was stronger...
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