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Faced with nothing but dead ends in her boyfriend Sam Gianelli’s secret indictment for murder, Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle goes back to basics and takes a case for a nervous bride-to-be who wants to make sure her fiancé is being faithful. Simple enough, but when her client turns up dead, Carlotta catches the kind of break she wished she hadn’t.

Tormented by the slaying of the hooker who turned to him for help just before her death, cop-turned-private eye Matthew Scudder begins an investigation into the woman’s past that reveals secrets that could be deadly for him.

When Maine reporter Jack McMorrow comes to the aid of a terrified teenage runaway, he becomes entangled in one family’s dark and dangerous secrets in a case complicated by the murder of the boy’s mother.

Starting a new life as the sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas, Hackberry Holland is drawn into a murder investigation when nine dead prostitutes are dug up in the desert, forcing him to focus on something other than his own demons.

Detective Shane Scully fights to save a man railroaded for murder, while he struggles to save his marriage.

One of the classic detective novels that established the genre, The Big Sleep follows Philip Marlowe into an underworld of booze, violence, pornography, and sex, as he searches for the blackmailer of a millionaire’s daughter.

When a man is killed by being thrown from a helicopter high over the California desert, Jack Reacher discovers that someone is targeting his old friends and teammates and launches a personal campaign to end the conspiracy.

Myron Bolitar hasn’t heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to turn for help. Myron heeds the call but then a startling piece of evidence turns the entire case upside down.

Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow’s confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating below police radar—and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.

Private investigator Elvis Cole learns that the body of a stranger who claimed to be his father has been discovered, a situation that prompts him to team up with partner Joe Pike to unveil dark secrets surrounding Cole’s past.

Hired by former Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller to break up his daughter’s romance with Hilary Bairn, a presumed fortune-hunter, Amos Walker gets more than he bargained for when Fuller’s daughter turns up dead.

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe’s mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.

Bank robber Jack Foley is back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after an escape. He impresses Cuando Rey, a Cuban refugee and criminal who is doing time for murder. Cuando has Foley’s sentence reduced, but wants favors aplenty when they’re both released. Foley is freed, and, in an instant, Cuando’s wife Dawn has seduced him, and she has an agenda all her own.

Hired to find the purloined painting of a gorgeous blonde, reputedly the work of an artist who mysteriously vanished in 1950, Lew Archer unveils a decades-long web of murder, family rivalry, and deceit.

When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who’s been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop working for the Chicago P.D., V. I. takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.

When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions.

Investigating the death of a woman that has been ruled accidental by the police but that her sister insists was a murder by a known perpetrator, a reluctant Nameless begins to suspect that the victim’s sister is telling the truth when he learns unsettling facts about her life.

Miles Flint is a spy whose last assignment led to the death of a foreign official in London, then to a short stint in jail. Convinced there is a mole in British intelligence, he sets out to find him—only to be waylaid by a routine mission to Belfast that may be his last.

Reformed criminal Ralph Arguello suddenly finds himself at the top of a list of suspects when his wife, homicide detective Ana DeLeon, is shot, and is forced to turn fugitive to find the real triggerman and clear his name.

When a TV producer convinces John Dortmunder and his merry gang to do a reality show that captures their next score, Dortmunder hatches an ingenious plan to outwit viewers glued to their television sets and end the shoot with money in his pockets.