The Hot Kid (Carl Webster, #1)
By: Elmore Leonard
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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1. The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
By: John D. MacDonald
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Searching for a wealthy friend's yacht, Travis McGee puts himself square in the center of the inter… read more
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- mystery thriller
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"It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies."-John D. MacDonald, The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
"When you look at pictures of people you know are dead, there is something different about the eyes. As if they anticipated their particular fate.It is a visceral recognition. I told myself I was gett…"-John D. MacDonald, The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
"At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be commi…"-John D. MacDonald, The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
"Without my realizing it, it had happened so slowly, I had moved a generation away from the beach people. To them I had become a sun-brown rough-looking fellow of an indeterminate age who did not quit…"-John D. MacDonald, The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
2. A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
By: Dennis Lehane
3.94
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South … read more
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"Twelve dead?"-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
"I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum"-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
"It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone."-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
"Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'."-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
3. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more
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"She was a cute as a washtub."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
4. Bomber
By: Len Deighton
4.19
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of a… read more
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- thriller
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- historical fiction
5. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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- crime
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7. Concrete Island
By: J.G. Ballard
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over th… read more
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8. Set the Boy Free
By: Johnny Marr
2.50
Format: 32 pages, ebook
The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The … read more
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- audiobook
9. The Hot Kid (Carl Webster, #1)
By: Elmore Leonard
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen the The New York Timescalls someone "the greatest crime writer of our… read more
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10. The Judas Goat (Spenser, #5)
By: Robert B. Parker
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers … read more
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11. The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10)
By: Richard Stark
4.31
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here's Parker--planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with … read more
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12. XPD
By: Len Deighton
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
June 11, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill? A private aircraft takes off from a small town in centr… read more
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- mystery
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13. The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
By: David Gilmour
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie… read more
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14. Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In
By: Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest,… read more
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15. A Talent for War (Alex Benedict, #1)
By: Jack McDevitt
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Christopher Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a rag-tag group of misfits into th… read more
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- mystery
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16. The Unforgiven
By: Alan LeMay
3.99
Format: 380 pages,
The Texas Panhandle was a harsh and unforgiving place, but the Zachary family managed to get by. Un… read more
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- audiobook
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17. The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)
By: Tony Hillerman
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim… read more
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18. A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
By: John D. MacDonald
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Travis McGee discovers a face from his past lying in a pool of blood on a cheap motel room flo… read more
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19. World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)
By: Robertson Davies , Wayne Johnston
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Hailed by the Washington Post Book Worldas "a modern classic," Robertson Davies's acclaimed Deptfor… read more
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20. The Hunter (Parker, #1)
By: Richard Stark
4.12
Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more
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21. Bright Orange for the Shroud (Travis McGee #6)
By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen
4.32
Format: 224 pages,
Travis McGee is looking forward to a "slob summer," spending his days as far away from danger as po… read more
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22. The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
By: John D. MacDonald
4.03
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
"One of the most enduring and unusual heroes in detective fiction."THE BALTIMORE SUN Now that Linda… read more
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23. Cimarron Rose (Billy Bob Holland, #1)
By: James Lee Burke
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets in his dark past. Among t… read more
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24. World Gone By (Joe Coughlin, #3)
By: Dennis Lehane
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Late spring, 1943. The world is at war but the American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe… read more
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25. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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26. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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27. Gangland
By: Chuck Hogan
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of t… read more
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28. Heat 2
By: Michael Mann
4.26
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more
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29. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
By: Don Winslow
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more
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30. Hero
By: Thomas Perry
4.05
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also mak… read more
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"Everything she saw was lit by skylights and every fixture conveyed the message, "This is the best, not just the most expensive."-Thomas Perry, Hero
31. One Deadly Eye (Doc Ford #27)
By: Randy Wayne White
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
After the deadliest hurricane to hit Sanibel Island in a century, Doc Ford must stop a gang of thie… read more
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