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Jake Stankovic has been flying below the radar for years, dealing safely in stolen property crime with his two-man crew. But times are tough, so he decides to step up to the big money with a drug deal. Everything that can go wrong, does. The deal goes bad, a vengeful detective sets his sights on Jake, one of his crew might be a turncoat, and a woman from a long past affair suddenly reappears. All of this would be complicated enough on its own, but...
42) More Beer
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A Kayankaya Mystery
Four members of a radical ecological group are accused of the murder of the director of a chemical plant near Frankfurt. While admitting to material damage of the plant they deny any involvement with the murder. According to witnesses, five people participated in the sabotage but where is the fifth man? The defendant's lawyer hires Kemal Kayankaya to find him.
Born in Turkey but raised in Germany, Kayankaya encounters many obstacles...
43) Raw Justice
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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Returns!For fans of Lee Child, John Grisham, and Michael Connelly"Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too." -Lee Child , #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher ThrillersThree unlikely events explode thrusting young lawyer Jennifer Lane into the abyss of her secret history.Bio-Medical researcher Gilbert Irwin is killed when his car is forced off the Sunshine Skyway...
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A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back-with the help of a "specialist": Parker. Will Parker break his rule against working with amateurs and help them because his woman would be disappointed if he doesn't? Or because three hired morons have threatened to kill him and his woman...
45) Simon Says Ride
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Simon Says... Ride, book 3 in a brand new thriller series by USA Today bestseller author Dale Mayer.Detective Kate Morgan is hot on a new confusing case. A cyclist is killed at the main intersection to the University of British Columbia. At first glance it looks like a hit-and-run, but, as details emerge, it gets much more complicated.From one day to the next, Simon is blinded by an overload of senses and noises. It's impacting his regular business...
46) Checkmate
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Angela Hartwell was dead, strangled, with not a mark on her. When a well-known local socialite's body is found during a round of golf with his father, Harry Starke suddenly finds himself embroiled in what quickly becomes a very thorny murder investigation. Who Killed Angela Hartwell and why? The answers lie somewhere along a twisty-windy path through the patrons and morals of an exclusive golf club where the members are seldom what they seem, and...
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Luke E. Mia, Private Eye, has lost it all, including her partner and best friend, Lyle. When a local psychic approaches Luke to find her missing cat, Luke expects more of the same old, same old, but what she uncovers working for Suzie Q. might get her back everything she's lost. The only question is, would you trust a Magic 8 Ball with your life?
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Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can't help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. Shell has finally met someone who may be his match. She's got a killer body and legs that seem to never end, but where is she hiding her pistol in that painted-on...
49) The Seventh
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The robbery was a piece of cake. The getaway was clean. The only thing left to do is split the cash-then it all goes wrong. In The Seventh, the heist of a college football game turns sour and the take is stolen from right under Parker's nose. With the cops on his tail, Parker must figure out who crossed him-and how he can pay the culprit back.
50) Seven Years
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A gripping novella from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Inspector Banks Mysteries and a "master of the art" (TheBoston Globe). Retired Cambridge professor Donald Aitcheson loves scouring antiquarian bookshops for secondhand treasures-as much as he loathes the scribbled marginalia from their previous owners. But when he comes upon an inscription in a volume of Robert Browning's poetry, he's less irritated than disturbed. This wasn't...
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Billie Jo Higgins may be small, but she is a skilled burglar, using her craft to keep her and Toby, her addict twin brother, afloat in a hard world. It is a difficult life, but the two are surviving. They take care of each other.Then B.J. stumbles into the wrong house at the wrong time and sees something she shouldn't. The explosive secret she now holds is dangerous, and the person it threatens immediately pursues B.J. with the solitary intent of...
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A Kayankaya Mystery
To rescue a kidnapped prostitute, Kemal Kayankaya must face some of Germany's most depraved and dangerous criminals. Fortunately, some of them are his friends...
Love is never easy - especially when your girlfriend is an illegal Thai prostitute who has been kidnapped (again) by a gang of sex traffickers. Fortunately for the hapless fiancé, Kemal Kayankaya is on the case. The son of a Turkish garbage collector, he knows a thing...
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Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating...
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Of course my line of work has its perks-and it should when I lay my life on the line for dangerously daring women even if they are among the most luscious ladies I've ever met. It's not easy guarding these beautiful bodies . . . of course it takes a lot more than being a bodyguard these days, especially when there's so much body to be guarded. And she has plenty of body to keep me busy-uh, working-for quite a while, even if she's stacked for murder....
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Bowie teams up with fellow thieves Chicamaw and T-Dub to rob a bank-he needs the money to hire a lawyer to prove he's innocent of murder. On the run, Bowie finds momentary peace when he elopes with a young woman. But Chicamaw and T-Dub want to reel him back in for one more job. One of the earliest American noir novels, Thieves Like Us was filmed twice, as They Live By Night in 1949, and by Robert Altman under the book's original title.
56) Rolling Thunder
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Former pro wrestler 'Hammerhead' Jed Ounstead, now a fully-fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to enter a new arena: women's flat-track roller derby. When old acquaintance Stormy Daze seeks his help finding her team's missing coach, Jed discovers that the turnbuckle-and-metal-chair mayhem of the wrestling ring pales in comparison to roller derby's four-wheeled...
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In the ruthless pursuit of fame, how far would you go?
Luigi Ferro finds himself entangled in a web of deception and betrayal in the glitzy world of cinema. Hired by leading actress Valeria Bianchi to probe a menacing blackmail plot, Ferro is plunged into a labyrinth of secrets as he arrives at Valeria's beach house, only to witness a shocking murder.
With twists at every turn, Ferro navigates through the murky pasts of Valeria and her enigmatic...
58) Strip for Murder
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Shell Scott, a not-so-private investigator, has a new type of case; he has to bare it all. But this case requires no fancy P.I. accessories...in fact, it doesn't require any accessories: he's got to find a murderer in a nudist colony. Experienced nudists and adventurous visitors frolic about the colony--oh, and so does a deranged killer. Wearing nothing but his gun, Shell has to reveal the murderer in this entrancing mystery novel...and that's the...
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Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name's Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who begins to pick off his fellow heisters, one by one. The first mistake? That he doesn't begin things by putting a bullet in Parker. That means he won't get the chance to make a second. One of the darkest novels...
60) The Handle
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In The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go, Parker knows the line between success and failure on this score would be exactly the length of the barrel of a .38.
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