A Man's Game
By: Newton Thornburg
3.52
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
When the man responsible for a number of Seattle rape-murders turns his attention to the daughter o…
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1. The Black House
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Horrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short … read more
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2. One Lonely Night (Mike Hammer #4)
By: Mickey Spillane
3.64
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Nobody ever walked across the bridge at night. But on the foggy night that Hammer took that chance,… read more
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3. Cottonwood
By: Scott Phillips
3.83
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
In his New York Times notable debut, The Ice Harvest , Scott Phillips gave readers an instant noir … read more
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4. High Priest of California
By: Charles Willeford
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"She was leaning against the door. Her smile was a sickly twisted grimace; the sort a prisoner give… read more
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5. Swag
By: Elmore Leonard
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This "brilliant caper" (New York Times) from bestselling author Elmore Leonard is a rollicking tale… read more
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6. They Don't Dance Much
By: Daniel Woodrell , James Ross
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
In this classic country noir, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Woodrell, a small town farmer … read more
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7. Gulf Coast Girl
By: Charles Williams
3.50
Format: 0 pages,
Originally published in hardback as Scorpion Reef. An American tanker, finds a small, abandoned boa… read more
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10. No Orchids For Miss Blandish
By: James Hadley Chase
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
Miss Blandish - innocent, exquisite, vulnerable heiress - is kidnapped by a gang of ruthless hoods … read more
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11. Trouble Is My Business
By: Raymond Chandler
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold… read more
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12. Black Wings Has My Angel
By: Elliott Chaze
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in n… read more
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13. The Moonshine War
By: Elmore Leonard
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
It was Prohibition, and a big, hell-raising Son Martin had himself something special: $125,000 wort… read more
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14. The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
By: Michael Connelly
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective… read more
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15. Cogan's Trade
By: George V. Higgins
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac o… read more
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16. Wake in Fright
By: Kenneth Cook
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Filmed as The Outback The Film Ink series presents the novels that inspired the work of some of the… read more
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17. The Rat On Fire
By: George V. Higgins
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer and booking agent, who also happens to own an apartment building … read more
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18. Ride the Pink Horse
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
4.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, hi… read more
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19. Portrait in Smoke
By: Bill S. Ballinger
3.62
Format: 272 pages,
A noir masterpiece With its combination of suspense, humor, intrigue and Ballinger's trademark mult… read more
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20. One for Hell
By: None
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
One for Hell When Willa Ree emerges from the boxcar, he is broke and ready for a fresh start. And B… read more
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21. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
22. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)
By: Ian Rankin
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more
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23. Devil House
By: John Darnielle
3.22
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more
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"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."-John Darnielle, Devil House
"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
24. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
25. Everybody Knows
By: Jordan Harper
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more
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"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
26. The Witch Elm
By: Tana French
3.57
Format: 528 pages, ebook
Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when… read more
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"Once the fear took hold, I was fucked. I'd never known anything like it could exist: all-consuming, ravenous, a whirling black vortex that sucked me under so completely and mercilessly that it truly …"-Tana French, The Witch Elm
"The wych elm's whole crown was gone, only the trunk left, thick stubs of branches poking out obscenely. It should have looked pathetic, but instead it had a new, condensed force: some great malformed…"-Tana French, The Witch Elm
"Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air a…"-Tana French, The Witch Elm
"Once the fear took hold, I was fucked. I'd never known anything like it could exist: all-consuming, ravenous, a whirling black vortex that sucked me under so completely and mercilessly that it truly …"-Tana French, The Witch Elm
27. A Man's Game
By: Newton Thornburg
3.52
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
When the man responsible for a number of Seattle rape-murders turns his attention to the daughter o… read more
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