Briarpatch
By: Ross Thomas
2.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister…
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1. Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.15
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
In the long-awaited sequel to Gorky Park, Arkady Renko returns to Russia to work on the Polar Star,… read more
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2. 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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"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)
3. The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
By: John D. MacDonald
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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4. Hopscotch
By: Brian Garfield
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Since being forced into retirement by the CIA, Miles Kendig had tried everything in an effort to sa… read more
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"Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it."-Brian Garfield, Hopscotch
5. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)
By: Patricia Highsmith
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
The Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's … read more
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6. 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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7. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
By: James Crumley
3.74
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more
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8. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
By: James Ellroy
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more
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9. The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
By: Chester Himes
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
When Harlemites set about each other with knives, it's an everyday kind of happening. But when a wh… read more
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10. The Highbinders (Philip St. Ives, #4)
By: Ross Thomas , Oliver Bleeck
3.84
Format: 179 pages,
Professional go-between extraordinaire, St. Ives is after an antique sword that happens to feature … read more
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11. Briarpatch
By: Ross Thomas
2.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister… read more
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12. Ceremony (Spenser, #9)
By: Robert B. Parker
5.00
Format: 160 pages,
Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who'd beat her up for a dol… read more
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13. The Widening Gyre (Spenser, #10)
By: Robert B. Parker
5.00
Format: 160 pages,
The adoring wife of Senate candidate Meade Alexander has a smile as sweet as candy and dotted her i… read more
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14. Protocol for a Kidnapping (Philip St. Ives, #2)
By: Ross Thomas , Oliver Bleeck
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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15. The Underground Man
By: Ross Macdonald
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer… read more
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16. Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep #1)
By: John Burdett
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel se… read more
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17. The Breaking Point (Body Farm, #9)
By: Jefferson Bass
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Past, present, and future collide to throw respected forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton's succes… read more
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18. 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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19. New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon, Mystery #1)
By: Julie Smith
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned R… read more
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20. Black Money
By: Ross Macdonald
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with hi… read more
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21. Shaker
By: Scott Frank
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The tense, darkly funny, unputdownable debut novel from one of the most successful screenwriters of… read more
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22. The Red Scream
By: Mary Willis Walker
3.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her latest, hard-hitting novel of suspense, award-winning writer Mary Willis Walker introduces a… read more
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24. The Suspect
By: L.R. Wright
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this, L.R. Wright's first mystery novel, we are introduced to RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg; a… read more
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25. God Save the Mark
By: Donald E. Westlake
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
* mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc… read more
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26. The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
By: Alan Blair , Maj Sjöwall , Per Wahlöö
4.07
Format: 640 pages,
In this classic police procedural, the ever-dyspeptic Martin Beck has nothing to be amused about, e… read more
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27. Tanner on Ice (Evan Tanner, #8)
By: Lawrence Block
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Once, Evan Tanner was known as the thief who couldn't sleep, carrying out his dangerous duties for … read more
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28. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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29. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
By: Mick Herron
4.13
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more
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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
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. Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)
By: Stephen Spotswood
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series fo… read more
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